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Show orsmaKe sense; jflar technology comes home for surveillance onBEKTBARKANAFS adaptations of the devices used ,. ' U OC VUlUdllLU Operated Low-Light-Level Television System." The equipment, which they claim is capable of discerning a man-sized object in extreme darkness from more than a half-mile away, has been installed high about the streets of Mt. Vernon, N.Y. The Justice Department, which financed fi-nanced the project with a $-17,000 grant from its Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, hopes to assess the public reaction reac-tion to 24-hour covert surveillance. surveil-lance. "Only time will tell," concluded con-cluded the Sylvania engineers, "if citizens will object to a 'I.? Brother' type atmosphere." But the Nixon Administration is not waiting for time to tell if citizens will object. Earlier this (continued on page 8) from LEAA grants. The police can spend their money on command & control" systems voiceprint" equipment, mobile digital teleprinters, and laser fingerprint analyzers: a Dick Tracy bonanza. At such annual gatherings as the National symposium on Law Enforcement, En-forcement, Science and Technology, in Chicago, and the Carnahan Conference of Electronic Elec-tronic Crime Countermeasures, as the University of Kentucky! engineers and governmental offi -officials discuss the latest advances ad-vances in police gadgetry. During the latest Carnahan Conference, for example, engineers from Syvania's Socio-Systems Socio-Systems Laboratory reported on "The World's First Police (R0BEKTBARKANAFS ' .Jnts of San Jose, Calif., Jf ken N.J., are the ifiestTV stars. They U on Uve, 24-hour, 'Circuit programs, 'f t0 the local police "J ents from downtown : areas. The sponsors of .urograms are the same I and industries that :enttahne $3.25-billion ;Jic battlefield" to ' While the war over f.VietnamiZes," the Nixon 18icaning the wars lloey, and the war on the T0t escalates. The result: ;icans, from marijuana crs to political dissidents opping housewives, are .-though they may not -w it-into the wrong end of glance devices that for- spied on the Vietnames. jugglers on the ; Mexican border face a new -ile to their trade. The U.S. to Patrol is now flying Air VPave Eagle" airplanes-aanned, airplanes-aanned, remote-controlled '.'-formerly used in the ji-dollar Igloo White anti-oration anti-oration program in Laos. ',jg over remote stretches of .border, the planes relay -is from hundreds of ground .:iors to an "Infiltration jviillance Center," where huge ;puters diagnose the data, j as in Vietnam, the ideated electronic systems at quite distinguish "friend" a "foe." A wandering burro : send the border patrolmen imbling for their jeeps. ;li ground sensors are adaptations of the devices used to detect the sounds anj vibratwns of the movements of Ju.-a,nd SUpp'y trucks on the fHMinh Trail. Their use on the Mexican border is reportedly M?tcUhPn ralJohn Mitchells "interest in sur. veillance discoveries and techniques." The sensors were deployed in the summer of 1970 when the Border Patrol, an arm of the Justice Department received a proposal for a sensor surveillance system from Sylvania Electronic Systems of Mountain View, Calif., which had produced sensors for use in Indochina. "The political implications im-plications of using surveillance equipment along a friendly foreign border," noted Sylvania "have been considered by selecting equipment that can be deployed without attracting attention and easily concealed." Another technological Vietnam veteran now coming home is a black box that sees through walls. Engineers at the Army's Land Warfare Laboratory at Aberdeen, Md., are modifying the PPS-14 "foliage-penetration" surveillance radar originally developed for spotting the "enemy" in the thick jungles of Vietnam. Initially set up to "meet high-priority material requirements in Southeast Asia," the Land Warfare Laboratory with the Army's blessing is now turning its attention to the needs of the police. Priced at $6,500 each in quantities of 300, the radar is about the size of a cigar box and weighs less than 10 pounds. Prototypes of the "Americanized" version of the - w j seeing C seeing though brick and cinder cin-der lock waUs, will be availabb by the spring of 1972 for use in combattm g "civic disturb ine pohce can already see through the dark, thanks to h night vision" devices developed cTtv t' ;m-- Frm New York to Kissimmee, Fla., police oeyPsarttrtSr th- -toys to perform covert night Z devices' caPable of amplifying light levels 40 000 toes, were developed by Americans industry during the 1960 s to meet the urgent needs o the mihtary for detecting the gh -fighting Vietnames guerrillas. The equipment was declassified, presumably at the request of the Justice Department, Depart-ment, m 1969. Such military suppliers as WCA, Raytheon, and Aerojet General now sell police versions at prices ranging from $2,000 to $8,000 each, and the Justice Department's Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) hopes to make available to the police a "Snooperscope" priced under $600. The enthusiasm en-thusiasm of the pohce for night vision equipment is surpassed only by that of the electronics industry, where one executive has predicted that by the end of 1972, virtually all of the 40,000 police departments in the United States will be using night vision equipment. The Electronics Industries Association has estimated the annual market in law enforcement en-forcement electronics at $400 million, most of which comes |