Professional eavesdropper finds excitement in work
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Brich, George
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated December 12, 1960 partially reads, "'The bomb is in No. 3 hold and will go off at two o'clock.' These stark words came from a staccato voice on a phonograph record. In the captain's cabin on a small freighter 100 miles off Cherbourg, France, the ships's master and a wiry, baggy-eyed young man listened intently. As the disc continued revolving, the voice filled the cabin with details of a plot to blow up the freighter at sea and the plan of the speaker and his accomplice to escape the explosion." Pictured is a North Hollywood man who makes a living 'eavesdropping' and must therefore must remain anonymous.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Spies--United States Implements, utensils, etc.--California--Los Angeles Men--California--Los Angeles Eavesdropping--United States Wiretapping--United States Espionage--United States North Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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