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I parked in front of Wood/Warren and went in Lance came out of his office in a wilted shirt with the sleeves rolled up

"Do we need to watch e say once we go in there?" he asked, indicating the office door

"I don’t think so Let’s let ’em knoe’re hot on the trail Maybe it’ll shake ’em up"

Before we started work, I did a quick check of both interior and exterior office walls on the off-chance that someone had installed a spike mike, a small probe that can be inserted between the studs, or hidden in a hollow door, the door panel itself serving as a diaphraght-front corner of the building The construction on those two sides was block and fieldstone, which didn’t lend itself to easy instal-lation Soh solid rock Inside, one office as contiguous with the recep-tion area, where the pickup unit would have been difficult to conceal The fourth as clean

Company eh the preliminary phases of the search If anyone orried about surveillance equip-ht, there was no indication of it

We went into the office I exa the plate off the botto the mouth and ear pieces As far as I could tell, the instrument was clean

"I take it it’s not the phone," Lance said, watching ht be downstream," I said "I don’t have any way to find out if somebody’s tapped into the line at the pole We’ll have to operate on the pre’s so up with it"

"What exactly are" we looking for?" Lance asked

I shrugged "Microphone, trans spied on by the FBI or the CIA, we probably won’t find anything I’ood On the other hand, if your eavesdropper’s an aht be fairly crude"

"What’s that thing?"

"My handy little all-band receiver," I said "This should pick up any sound being trans in a feedback loop that’ll result in a high-pitched squeal We’ll try this first, and if nothing coht, we’ll take the office apart itean to workaround the office like soer in the outside pocket ofmy way around the periphery of the roorid pattern that covered every square foot

Nothing

I stood for a , down the walls, along the baseboard Where was the sucker? I felt ht of the door There was no telephone cord co from it