Monday, Aug. 30, 1982
For the Executive James Bond
Fears about the security of corporate secrets have created a ready market for novel mechanisms designed to foil industrial espionage, kidnapings or other such capers. Perhaps the most advanced product currently available is an attache case whose electronic gear rivals that found in an AWACS plane. Known as the Secret $26,000. Briefcase, it weighs 22 lbs. fully loaded and costs $26,000.
This standard-size carrier bristles with surveillance devices, many of which are disguised as everyday items that can make paranoid executives feel as invulnerable as a Fort Knox guard. A cigarette pack in the case lights up to warn that a tape recorder is present. An ordinary pen illuminates when a "bug" is located near by. A supersensitive sniffer detects hidden bombs.
The Secret Connection Briefcase also has offensive capability. A business man has four his fingertips a flashlight designed to blind evildoers for up to four hours with an intense beam of light, as well as a wireless telephone with a built-in scrambler. A handy voice-stress analyzer will reveal whether or not the person being called is telling the truth.
The briefcase can even be used as a shield. Its tough synthetic fabric will withstand a .357 magnum bullet. To stymie any attempts to steal all this James Bond gadgetry, there is also an alarm that will sound six seconds after the case is ripped from the owner's grasp.
The security equipment is the product of CCS Communication Control Inc., a New York City company. The firm, which has been advertising the product in the Wall Street Journal and other national business publications since January, claims to have sold a few dozen of them so far. Says Vice President Carmine Pellosie: "Executives come in when they're about to meet with people they don't know, especially in merger situations when valuable information is be ing exchanged."
One CCS official has some unusual qualifications for the field. Ben Jamil, the com pany president, was indicted in 1966 for wiretapping, though the indictment was dis missed after the trial ended in a hung jury.
According to a report of a New York State crime committee, he has had business dealings with organized crime and with a major operator of illegal massage parlors. Currently Jamil is under federal indictment in Brook lyn for illegally selling surveillance equipment to Syria and Yugoslavia.
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