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Peter Gunn
1958 · TV series · 30 min episodes · 3 seasons
Created by Blake Edwards
Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the action with your eyes closed, Peter Gunn worked in style. Known as Pete to his friends and simply as Gunn to his enemies, he did his job in a calm cool way.
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What a great link!
Speaking of car phones, one of the best depictions of a car phone was in the 1958-1961 show "Peter Gunn", a cracking good film noir TV series. Gunn had a car phone in his very cool 1959 Plymouth Sport Fury Convertible (I so wish tailfins were still a thing...) There's a picture of his phone from the show [1] which seems to match the Western Electric model from the above link [2].
Anyway, watch the show if you can find it - the epitome of jazzy noirish cool.
[1] https://www.pinterest.com/pin/peter-gunns-mobile-car-phone--510243832765658307/
[2] https://www.wb6nvh.com/MTSfiles/Carphone1.htm
Despite that he brought no files with him from Hong Kong, I can readily accept that the Chinese or Russians obtained the files from someone else.
The term "black bag job" commonly means stealing a codebook. Spy movies depict Peter Gunn breaking into an embassy then cracking a safe.
Real black bag jobs are such social engineering as when the Pentagon ordered the commanding officer of Midway Island to request a replacement for the base's broken water desalination plant:
"$THE_ISLAND_WERE_ABOUT_TO_ATTACK needs a new desalinator" reported a japanese spy.