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- Birth nameBernard Bates Spindel
- Bernard Spindel was born on November 9, 1923 in New York City, New York, USA. He died in February 1971 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Profiled by Life Magazine in 1966, which called Spindel "the No. 1 big-league freelance eavesdropper and wiretapper in the U.S." Among his clients was Jimmy Hoffa.
- Last name is pronounced "spin-DELL".
- When he appeared on Tom Ewell (1955), he was from New York City, and his occupation was "professional wire tapper". Because he had been in news stories at the time, he signed in as "B.B.S.".
- I'm a private practitioner, and I work for anybody who wants to find out if anybody's on 'em, and I don't ask for a pedigree.
- It's not what you do, it's what you get caught doing.
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