Word: picklock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remove the bug. These legally questionable acts evoked memories of Nixon-era plumbers and led many Germans to wonder whether the Verfassungsschutz, which is roughly equivalent to the FBI, was functioning in a high-handed style reminiscent of the Hitler era. Der Spiegel's disclosure that an expert picklock from Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's federal intelligence service had helped in the break-in enhanced the impression of a "Watergate am Rhine...