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I was treated civilly - perhaps because I'm a 'Brit' RISES incongruousiy bve Derry's old city walls -high pylon topped by TV meras, constantly filming : Catholic Bogside and the awling Creggan estate ÿond.
Controlled electronically, : cameras can scan the area • zoom i in tor a close-up ot hopper's face, or even into i front room of anyone who gets to close the curtains. 4 recent report in the BelI Sunday News has exposed other network of cameras den in the nationalist areas, guised as ventilator grills leven as chimney pots. Dened to transmit their picturby radio, these closeduit cameras are usually talled by the Royal Signal ps at night, working under cover of diversions arrangby other troops who mount rches or road blocks. 'he Heli-Teli sky-spy heliters are well known, and now in regular use in Lon• In the occupied North, rever, the British Army , use cars with headlamps laced by cameras and wing rors concealing aerials. arkness brings no relief • constant surveillance for people of the nationalist is. Whole areas, particularly round army and RUC bases, are permanently flooded in invisible infra-red light, and infra-red cameras film constantly.
Elsewhere the army have hidden "low light level' cameras which need only the illumination from a distant street lamp or even the moon:
As the quiet of the night is regularly shattered in the Catholic areas by the drone of the surveillance helicopters, there is little they cannot see with the aid of infra-red 'nitescan' searchlights.
However, the nationalist population can draw a little comfort from the fact that occasionally things do go wrong for the army.
Recently a whole flock of unmanned army surveillance drones gave themselves away to the people of Craigavon. These radio-controlled craft. apparently equipped with night-time thermal imaging' systems, exposed themselves by flashing red lights. Their whole advantage was supposed to be that because they are silent they could be used undetected.
Local residents were quoted in newspapers as thinking that the North of Ireland was being invaded by marauding aliens.
They weren' 't far wrong. TROOP NOW!
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