B.B.C. ‘BUG’ CHARGE
Recording Now Banned
(N .Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, April 7. A member of Parliament complained in the House of Commons yesterday that the publicly-owned British Broadcasting Corporation used a “bug” to monitor a private conversation.
Mr Frank Tomney, Labour, said that the incident “left a very bad taste.”
He alleged that the 8.8. C., making a television film on housing in London, told a woman that they would pay her rent arrears of £65 if she took concealed transmitting equipment to various private interviews.
At one, the conversation was monitored by 8.8. C. men in a taxi in a nearby street, he said.
The 8.8. C. has now said that the recording will not be used.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31339, 8 April 1967, Page 13
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