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Airport Security

Number 19747
Subject Undercover Investigations - Surveillance
Source CBS News
State NY
Year 2002
Publication Date Feb. 25, Sept. 3
Summary CBS reporters, led by a former Federal Aviation Administration security team employee, test eight major airports -- JFK, LaGuardia, Baltimore, Reagan National, Atlanta, St. Louis, Ft. Lauderdale and Los Angeles -- for security flaws. They enter through checkpoints with lead-lined film bags where weapons could be hidden invisible to the X-ray machines. The result is the same both six months after Sept. 11 and a year after Sept. 11: In 70 percent of the cases the security personnel fails to open the lead-lined bags.
Category Contest Entry
Pages 32
Keywords terrorism;safety;bombs;9/11;whistleblowing;airlines;TAPE;TRANSCRIPT
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