RIVAL CAMPS IN SAME HOTEL HUNT ELECTRONIC SNOOPERS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300090034-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 10, 1998
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: July 7, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Date: JUL 7 1964
Rival Camps in
Hunt Electronic Snoopers
San Francisco, July 7-The?versation for any listening do
.Goldwater forces are snooping i vices.
for Scranton electronic ears l How many such boo:e ; '.ad','-he
which might be "listening" ford Goldwater forces rented?
,Goldwater secrets. "Enough," he said.
And the Scranton side two Two floors down, i:r_ :'cr1 ,
4' I
0
floors down in the Mark Hop-
kins Hotel is snooping for any
Goldwater ears straining for
Scranton convcn`~on strategy.
Both Goldwater and Scranton
,.,.._ a...:,,
ton Dices a ..
about electronic weal. -l ,I
there." And a Scranton st.i ii
member jerked his thuic'b up ins
direction of Goldwater head-
,he
qua rtcrs.
head;'iarters are crammed intoiwe`tee' of Wires
for doors in the hotel-. Both sides look distrustfully
,-.h is afraid that the other qt the welter of telephone anti
has planted some kind of lis- TV cable strung thrc . 1'. L ie h,-)-
tening device outside the oth-tel, fearful that son
er's windows. have planted ? c,o-
James M. Day, Goldwater op- vice so-n: whee. ;hT'C,s
Intelligence Agency mail- 'for could' lie inc', rig
forces had rented several ear The cable,
jamming devices for installation than garden hose,rithes u;p
in Goldwater's $112-a-dav suite'ric s1':il,well of the fire escap:,.
sIV::Cs out windows and' ova :'
on the 15th floor of the flop red:i~: the telephone irstalla-h
kins. 1~>ht iron window ai ,i., "a lot of people are4
he whole building is f ee o rc convinced that commut.icationsI
He said only, We recohntze h i' Dish-shaped TV : derv
the situation exists." s;on for Kennedy in 1060. And
the perch on ledges hi,-,11) aiv `' everybody here is convinced
Black Boxes Rented the street where the upsar that l;e has some ;augct the t
However, it was learned that, floors are set back from the- od,v,.. Ge;W& d(e'n't know i
Goldwater men were. rentingkhuilding line. . v u
some electronics - crammed i Goldwater and Scranton CO
.i ainn cati , e preb ,hly
boxes the size of small radios'staffs patrol their headquarters the ;~s1 inr,,e item of ex-
to keep any tin ears from pick- to make sure no TV camera has pense to l;ol h Goldhs rater and
ing up Goldwater conversations. ? been emplaced on a ledge to, Scranton forces.
The devices are used to blot an;Peer into the Goldwater suite Fach had to nut r,p ,t Sn,f!1o`
!electronic recording and are not where the senator and his aides deposit for PT&T installations. s
!intended to be used to counter will talk grand strategy amid]"Before it's all over, sse fieurel,
telephone wire taps. Chinese prints, lamps and white}that it will come to about l 25,
A source in the Goldwater parchment sliding panels hidingl000, counting installation and;
headquarters said like devices the bar, or into the walnut-pail-ruse," said Day.
have been used in the senator'sjeled Scranton suite. I Each side figures to spend al-
Washington campaign head-!Plans Secret most $250,000 in th; last round r
quarters. of the struggle between Gold-,
Ile described them' as "black; So intense has mutual suspi-i water and Scranton for the
(boxes," which emit silent "sta cion become that neither cam
" ppresidential nomination.
tic" to distort the sound of conlwlll discuss its plans for tele
)none and wa!'cic-talkie corn-'
r:icntio7; tv;ecn the convex]
nn floor and consmand head-'
-ers housed lr een and
.r.te trailers 6ut;: LO.
Armed guards patrol the tail-
Pa Co. wark .een install
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