Secret Surveillance of Students
In the latest edition of The New York Amsterdam News, the city’s largest African American newspaper, the top story is called “Spies at City College.” It was written by Herb Boyd and it begins, “Bugging devices. Hidden cameras. Are we talking about the FBI or CIA, operatives on a mission against a dangerous enemy? Nope, but what has recently occurred on the campus of City College seems to have all the ingredients of a counter-intelligence operation aimed at repressing the activities of a violent band of subversives. Alerted that they were under surveillance, student activists at City College discovered a very sophisticated, computerized hidden camera disguised as a smoke detector on the ceiling outside a room where various political meetings and strategy sessions are held by the students. In an adjoining room the students found a television monitor and an apparent listening device that was aimed at the student lounge.”
