Article about electronic tools used by the U.S., page 1

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Title: Article about electronic tools used by the U.S., page 1
Description: Original title: "focus", Keever's title: "Electronic 'Black Noodle' Sensors are dropped in a Infiltration Route", Article draft about electronic tools used by the US, for the Chrisitian Science Monitor, page 1
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SAIGON,
SEPTEMBER 9The "black noodle" has joined the
electronic exotica used by the Allies to defend Saigon and other major
Still highly-classified, the "black
South Vietnamese cities.
noodle" (bun den in Vietnamese)
as Vietnamese officers call it,
is an electronic sensor used to detect Communist movements along
sparsely populated "corridors of infiltration" leading to Saigon
and other major cities. The kinky, wire-type device is as long as
spaghetti-about two-feet-but is as thin as vermicelli-the cigotimo
circumference of a pinhead. Millions have been dropped from
helicopters along neposni bed patove remote paths and streams
once the rubber-tire sandals or jungle boots of the Communist troops
the sensor emits
unknowingly squash the black de noodle,
electronic signals that are received on a recording screen manned by
American Vietnamese Special Forces soldiers, who have also been dropped
The device has also been implanted around Special
into the area.
ME
Forces camps
and seems to have been particularly effective in forewarning
the Communist attacks on Katum, a remote de Green Beret camp in Tayninh
province near the Cambodia border that was targeted when the Communist
third off offensive began August 18.
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Date: 1968, Sep. 9
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975--United States; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Guerrilla warfare; Military surveillance
Location: Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 10.8231; 106.6311
Size: 20 x 26 cm
Container: B10, F39
Format: dispatches
Collection Number: MS 363
Collection Title: Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator: Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language: English