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! this equipment had probably saved a policeman's life. The inspector ’
coramented that the account of the Ballou incident appearing in the
: press was not the whole story. With the aid of the equipment the
- Agency had provided, the police had intercepted a telephone call
: from Ballou to a friend in which Ballou outlined plans to "kill a cop.
The police then staged a raid to forestall Ballou's plan, and it was ‘
during this raid that Ballou was shot. cr
4, [ad that he has no other knowledge of the Ballou
case, except fof what he has read in the newspapers, and that he has
not had any other conversations about the case with any members of
the Montgomery County Police. We learned nothing from our inquiries
that would indicate any other Agency involvement in the Ballou case. -
S$. The following are related excerpts from the "Family Jewels!
submission of the Director of Security on 16 May 1973: i - :
During the period from 1968 to 1973, several items of
positive audio equipment consisting primarily of clandestine
. transmitters and touch-tone dial recorders were loaned to
the Metropolitan Police Department; Fairfax County, Virginia,
he Police Department; Montgomery County, Maryland, Police
Department; New York City Police Department; and the San
Francisco, California, Police Department.
On 25 July 1968, and at the specific request of the ~
'. United States Secret Service, this Office provided two audio
countermeasures technicians to the United States Secret Service
in connection with the Democratic National Convention held in
- Chicago, ‘TMinois. ‘This was not an official detail although .
. both men were provided with temporary credentials identifying
- them as being affiliated with the United States Secret Service.
On 15 August 1968, we detailed the same two men to the
United States Secret Service to cover the Republican National .
' Convention in Miami, Florida. On both occasions, the team
. members were debriefed upon their return and it is clear that
their activities were confined exclusively io sweeping the
candidates’ and potential candidates’ quarters. -
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