Bugs in the shit

Pittsburg (APS) — A bizzare story has been emerging over the past few weeks from the Blue Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania where the ultra-right wing Minutemen maintain a "secret" training camp to prepare themselves for armed confrontation with communists and left wingers in general.

It seems that their camp has been bugged, and in retaliation, the Minutemen claim to have bugged the FBI.

The first listening device to be discovered at the Minutemen camp showed up two weeks ago when a member of the group ran a power lawnmower over what appeared to be a dog turd. It almost broke the blade of the mower.

The pile of dog shit turned out to be a tiny transmitter, capable of picking up conversations from 20 feet away and transmitting them some six miles. Upon close examination two other piles of dog shit with similar capabilities were discovered.

The Minutemen say the devices were planted by either FBI or Treasury Department agents (disguised as dogs?). Both these agencies deny that the devices were theirs, though they admit they've had the Minutemen under surveillance.

Despite orders not to talk about the incident from Minutemen chief Roy Frankhouser, one Mmuteman told a reporter about tapes the Minutemen have made of FBI contacts with the Mafia and the Black Panthers. He claimed the FBI has been after the tapes, but is afraid to press the matter for fear that "we can blow their whole illegal operation."