Someone espionage?

Someone espionage? Thus, the teddy bear, and potted plant

See the cuddly teddy bear over on the shelf? Well, you see too. "Right here in the camera, behind the left eye. Said Marvin Badler, the owner of the Spy Mart Monmouth County company dedicated to the proposition will be surprised that you do not know, can hurt you and what you know to protect.

'There is a wireless transmitter room here. Mr. Badler said, holding the teddy bear inarms and pointed to the furry little head. "It 's possible to send a signal up to 300 feet away so they do not even need a wire to connect a VCR to him.

Mr. Badler authorized a private investigator since 1961 and former chief investigator for the New York City Department of Correction, was demonstrating some of the items it sells from Spy Mart showroom.
'See that planter down there. Mr. Badler said, and pointed towards a normal aspect of plant pots. "There's a camera inthe pot. We built last week. I was shopping with my wife, I saw the planter and came up with the idea. "

Mr. Badler business is a response to a challenge: How can I find out what someone is up to without having to figure out what to do first?
"Most of my clients are the types of law enforcement." Mr. Badler said, referring to the police, private investigators, investigators and prosecutors. Researchers are also to exploit the latest technology in surveillance illegal. But wealso have a lot of private entrepreneurs and come in, how to register your phone call or because they fear their business, they are intercepted. "

Paramilitary Atmosphere

The Spy Mart, which Mr. Badler opened about two years ago, is on the second floor of an office building in Marlboro, NJ. Mr. Badler, a tall, burly man with a penchant for hats from 10 liters, also runs his private investigation and security by the DivisionLocation. The atmosphere is decidedly paramilitary, with a secretary and an assistant calling Mr. Badler "sir" in terse formal exchanges.

It instructed the Secretary of him on a phone on one of the windows, call the gallery walls in a row. The phone rang, and Mr. Badler lifted the receiver. "This is a prototype." he said, and told his assistant to get an extension in another room. A red light flashed on the phone. "You see the line was dead." Mr. Badlersaid a review of the receiver of one of our visitors that the phone was completely dead. "What happened was, if I'm talking about, and someone comes on the line of a listening device or comes into the room with a transmitter, the light automatically goes on the phone disconnects the call."
He intends to use the new phone number to spy shop around the market of the country. The price? About $ 750.00. Many of the devices in the Spy Mart showroom, including the phone goes dead that are elementsMr. Badler designed himself and then made available to members at any time, even - stocked electronics store.

"This is a microphone in a button." he said and maintained for inspection, should be, well, a button with wire attached to it seemed. "You can put your own on a T-shirt and plug it into any tape recorder." he said. "It 's battery, and you can change the actual button so that it matches the buttons on your shirt."

Then she showed me a pen, he said, has asmall internal microphone. Even upon close inspection, nothing seemed unusual for the pin. "The microphone is located behind the hole," he said, dicate the size of an attack period at the end of this sentence. "And 'supersensitive, too." He said, arguing that the tiny microphone is about 10 times more sensitive then the microphones built into microcassettee recorders now on the market.
"You see the calculator?" He said, indicating a calculator credit card size.
"This is a transmitter.But it is not for public use, law enforcement only. Has not been approved by the FCC.

illegal wiretapping devices Badler Mr. T fall into two general public use: Hard-wired, like the shirt button microphone that plugs into a recorder microcassettee and W-LAN as the computer, the receiver sends an FM in some distance.

Behind the image

Some radio stations, such as replacing an electrical wall OrdinaryOutlet can be up to half a mile away, drawing strength from the current home. People who use small batteries for power and are about the same size of a sugar cube, transferred to a lesser extent, but are almost surreptitiously furniture placement in vases, picture frames mounted behind and under tables and others.

"Once again," Mr. Badler said, "these are for law enforcement, not for public use. And 'illegal unless the audio recording of one of the parts of speech are."

But ifThis is the case, the camera teddy bear with a camera could be used for a brain? "Everyone," said Badler. Is not illegal to video tape. "

In fact, he said, the teddy bear for customers to follow to be able, as a child, a nanny was the child's treatment if the parents were not kept in the house is designed. The teddy bear was placed on a high shelf in the room and locked chid a VCR in the room with parents. The cost? "Around $ 1,000.00, without the ', Video. "Mr. Badler said." And there are ways we can make them work in total darkness. "Mr. Badler pointed to what looked like a clock on the wall. He pointed his visitor to the video monitor, a look just below the clock. The screen was a picture of a confused reporter looking at yourself looking at a monitor. "Now you said look at this," Mr. Badler, off the office lights dimmed, the image on the video monitor, but remained clear and easily. "Everything we do isIntroduce a small infrared light source - you can always hide in my room - and it will bounce around and illuminate the room as it was daylight. "

A regular customer of the Spy Mart, a private investigator who declined to give his name, described another product for the use of infrared light. "I bought the filters for the headlights on my car infrared. He said the researcher, explaining that the filters staking errant spouses for divorce clients are used. "I sit in myCars with a video camera, aim the headlights waiting for the home or motel. The filter infrared light, the square, as it was during the day. I see them, but I can see. "

The researchers said the warning was more than a toy store for high-Mart's Sam Spade of real life spies and amateurs.

Marvin not only sell things and send you out the door, "said the man" He tells you like what you buy. Gives suggestions. Tell him what you want and find that ithow. "

And for those who are in active espionage and counterespionage, Mr. Badler also offers a small library of arcane books with titles like "How to disappear completely and never be found." "Get Even: The Complete Book of Dirty Tricks", "How the Underdog Gets Justice" and "Methods of Disguise.

Although the Spy Mart offers law enforcement officials said Mr. Badler, a growing segment of its business involves managing Executive and Business worriedEmployee theft and industrial espionage.

"We have a lot of small businesses installing hidden video systems, he said, adding that it is illegal to install such devices in areas where people have a right to expect privacy, such as changing rooms and toilets.

Concerns about interceptions

"We also sell many systems for people who believe that their activities or objects for the home, has lost its offices are bugged or monitored by the competition," he said. "And we want to help peopletake their telephone conversation. Many insurance customers are now recorded conversation that is legal. "

Although the market for equipment to control the prosecution never seems to dry, he said, the market among business customers tracks the economy.
"When things go wrong out there for business, then business is good for me." Mr. Badler said. "If the economy is bad, people are stealing, and there are scans of the ads themselves go."

One of the last pointsshowed his visitor was a personal favorite. "This is a bug-detector," he said, and opened a case, a small electronic control panel included. He took a small staff with a wire attached to it and dismissed the case on witness to your computer, which is really a hidden transmitter should not and practically demonstrated. The bug detector flashed and electronic beeps and alarms.

"It 's one of my favorite products," he said.

Badler is now on the web: http://www.thespymart.com& Http: / / www.implexsecurityproducts.com

The New York Times, January 30, 1994