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BURMANET: THE PROBLEM WITH OLD HOUS



Subject: BURMANET: THE PROBLEM WITH OLD HOUSES
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 00:08:34 GMT

BURMANET: THE PROBLEM WITH OLD HOUSES
July 18, 1995


They go together, bugs and old houses--but it's not usually this bad.

It was a television soundman who spotted them.  He was
trying to use his boom mike during an interview with Daw Aung San
Suu Kyi but feedback from radio transmissions was interfering with the
sound.  What was out of place was that the interview was taking
place in her living room and she doesn't even have a phone, much
less a transmitter, much less one in the ceiling.  The soundman's
discovery confirmed what both journalists and others have assumed was
the case anyway: the house is bugged.

The owner of the house is not unaware of the problem however.
In an interview with BurmaNet, Daw Suu Kyi, said that she has
warned the SLORC to remove any listening devices.  In an interview with
BurmaNet, she said that she would have the house swept for bugs
this week and that would be embarassing to the authorities for
any listening devices to be discovered so it would be better if they
were taken out first.  She told BurmaNet that the authorities denied
bugging the house and that in any event, they lacked the appropriate
technology to do so.

If the exterminator's report becomes available, it will be posted here.
The interview with DASSK will be posted within a day.

 -S