Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/24

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Paper clips and the RUC
From: Jeremy Kime <jeremy.kime@bbc.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:01:50 -0000

Which in turn reminds me of a story about the plain clothes branch of the
RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary-the police in N. Ireland).
They bought a batch of very ordinary cars and were asked by the manufacturer
what colour they'd like them. They chose one which, unwittingly, was not a
colour shared by any ordinarily available cars in that model, result, the
IRA knew their target every time they saw one!

Jem
(One of the cars was more than likely photographed with a Leica at one stage
or another...)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Joe Stephenson [SMTP:joeleica@flash.net]
> Your colored tape story reminds me of an incident that happened in the
> 60's
> at a demonstration. There were a lot of plain clothes "cops" (FBI, CIA,
> local?), and they put paper clips on their lapels or collars so they could
> recognize one another. One of the demonstrater's somehow figured this out
> and started handing out hundreds of paper clips for demonstrators to use.
> Great fun. Anyone who thinks the police are smart and efficient was never
> in
> the peace movement.
> Sincerely,
> Joe Stephenson
> 
>