On Candid Camera

Watergate has added a distinctly Orwellian tinge to the national atmosphere. With Big Brother not only watching but bugging and burglarizing, it is not hard to imagine a trend toward counterespionage of paranoid proportions. Future offices of public officials will no doubt be lined with lead to foil electronic snoopers; windows, even those high up, will be etched with sensor tape, attuned both to touch and long-range bugging beams; closed-circuit television sets will monitor every door and elevator, and squads of men in gumshoes will patrol rooftops.

Ridiculous? Never happen here?

Well, those are the security measures recently undertaken in "redecorating" the Washington offices of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Moreover, Big Brother, in the form of a continuously filming movie camera stationed across the street, keeps his unblinking eye focused on Cox's ninth-story windows.

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