Chancellor sees all (1)
01 January 1991
Chancellor sees all
artdoc June=1994
From 2,000 feet in the sky, `it is possible to read the writing
on a packet of crisps or see spots on a persons face - that's how
good the definition is'. So claimed a senior security source in
an `exclusive' interview with the Belfast Telegraph. He was
referring to the new American made Chancellor camera, a by-
product of the US space programme, which is now fitted to
military helicopters engaged in surveillance work in the North
of Ireland. The search for a new camera began after `heli-tele'
film was used as evidence in the numerous trials which followed
the killing of two British Army corporals at a West Belfast
funeral in 1988. Notwithstanding computer enhancement, the
quality of that film was poor, raising significant doubts as to
its use as identification evidence.
Belfast Telegraph, 9.2.94.
Statewatch Vol 4 no 2, March-April 1994