CBI CHIEF 'BROADLY DEVLIN COMMISSION
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The Confederation of British Industry will make no British private security immediate moves to set up a Confederation of British firms are buying elecBusiness-an amalgamation of tronic bugging devices on the CBI and Chambers of La large scale although Commerce.
This was revealed yesterday their use in this country by CBI president Michael is strictly illegal. Clapham at a London Press conference on the proposals of the Devlin Commission are in Britain plying these which inquired into industrial secretive wares. One such firm and commercial representation.
Clapham 'broadly welcomed' is Ultron Micro Wave Inc of Farmingdale, New York. the proposals, but he rejected some of the recommendations La copy of a brochure which and gave only qualified supUltron sub-agents are distributport for others.
Wing in London in their sales The CBI, he said, would undertake a number of dis- drive. cussions with large companies in various sectors of industry complete guide to bugging and to find out their views on listening devices though their rationalization. cost is modestly not mentioned.
But on the recommendation of the setting-up of a Con- be private security firms. In federation of British Business, collecting evidence and dosincluding Chambers of Com- siers for their clients these merce, he said the report had private police forces are innot taken sufficient account creasingly using bugging equipof fundamental differences be- ment. Many make their own tween the two organizations. gear but these devices Clapham rejected the idea usually adaptations of models of cutting out smaller firms imported from either the US from membership of the pro- or West Germany. posed CBB.
Even the larger members for these items has been noticewere against this, he said, and able over the past four years. there were no guarantees that This can be explained in two the 4,300 smaller businesses in ways. the CBI would set up their own organization anyway. ment was very unreliable. It was difficult to record a conBelow: Michael Clapham, m pre- versation either on a telephone sident of the Confederation of or in a room which could then British Industry. be understood intelligibly when replayed.
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