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## First publicized use of thru-wall/thru-clothing radar!

The significance of this posting is that it is one of a growing number of technologies which operate LIKE the more advanced technologies referred to on this web site.

Eventually, technology like voice to skull, thru wall radar, and acoustic heterodyning will cause the more advanced, classified technologies now in covert usage to be exposed. References to some of these soon-to-be-household-word technologies are on the following page:

Unclassified advanced devices which are public but not widely known about.

    This is is the original URL for the following article:

    http://www.thetrip.com/completetraveler/article/0,1355,1-4-3_1658,00.htm

    Airport Body Scanner Helps Drug Arrest
    by Associated Press - March 12, 1999

    MIAMI (AP) -- Hidden behind gray-and-pink carpeted
    barricades in the customs area of Miami International
    Airport lies a piece of the latest technology in the fight
    against international drug trafficking.

    The tall gray box sees through clothing and produces images
    that U.S. Customs Service agents say will help reveal drugs
    that smugglers are hiding in increasingly sophisticated
    ways.

    On Thursday, Customs Commissioner Raymond Kelly inspected
    the body-imaging machine that officials said two days
    earlier had revealed 3 1/2 pounds of marijuana in a bicycle
    tire strapped around a man's waist.

    In that case, the machine produced a pixelated image that
    distorted the physique of the thin male suspect, making him
    appear stocky and round, but clearly showed bulges around
    his middle.

    That was enough, though, to provide the first seizure
    thanks to the machine that's been used on 23 people at the
    airport since Feb. 1.

    "It's as effective as a pat down, but it doesn't look into
    the body," Kelly said. "We're pretty well committed to
    using this type of technology. It's a question of getting
    funding and where we go from here."

    Only one other device like it is in use by the Customs
    Service, in New York City's Kennedy International Airport.
    Soon other airports may offer travelers who are suspected
    of carrying drugs, but decline to be patted down by
    inspectors, the option of being scanned.

    It's part of a plan to improve the image and accountability
    of an agency that is facing 12 lawsuits nationwide over
    body searches of airline passengers.

    AP content Copyright 1999 The Associated Press

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