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year, a team of highly trained
* FBI agents secretly breaks into a house, office, or warehouse somewhere in * the United States. * * The agents are members of the bureau's Surreptitious Entry Program, and * their usual mission is to plant a hidden microphone or camera without * tipping off the people who occupy the targeted structure. * * FBI officials refuse to discuss, even in the most general way, the * operations of these clandestine hit squads. * * Use of break-ins has increased six-fold in the last several years. * * Furthermore, the FBI has blamed the security industry for making locks * and alarms more difficult to defeat. * * That was the central justification offered by the FBI when a couple of * years ago it asked the White House for $27 million in public funds to * pay the engineering whizzes at the Sandia and Los Alamos National * Laboratories and several other government research facilities to develop * ways to defeat "any locking system whether it be mechanical or electronic, * or computer supplemented." [snip] * * The FBI's Rapid Prototyping Facility (RPF) is a laboratory and factory * dedicated to the design and manufacture of "unique miniaturized devices in * direct support of various investigative efforts" of the "FBI and other * members of the U.S. law enforcement community." * * Operated jointly by the FBI and the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research * Projects Agency (DARPA, creators of the Internet), the FBI fa |
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