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  • Why Flash Frank Monte dominates the industry
    There are plenty of bugs in Frank Monte's smart office on the eighth level of the Australia Square Tower in Sydney - bugs in a pipe with a false bowl, a pen, a cigarette lighter, cigarette packet, ashtray and in a desk box which he also keeps bullets for the .22 and .38 calibre Beretta pistols which he pulls out of a drawer.

  • Bugs
    Each of these finds was made by a well-known Sydney private investigator, Frank Monte, who says that he has set out to "dominate the debugging industry in Australia." He also markets bugging-which is more or less attaching the market from both ends.(see accompanying story)

    Monte says he was called in to White Industries at the insistence of its Japanese partners, Mitsubishi Development Company, after a barrister was overheard discussing a point which the directors themselves had only raised the previous night.

  • Dirty deeds that bug business by Susan Hely (2pg article)
    He is one of the Australia's youngest property developers and made his millions quickly. He appeared to have uncanny timing, knowing exactly when to strike a deal for maximum profit. But what few observers realise is that when he was desperate for success, he risked fines and imprisonment by bugging his competitors' telephones and offices. Soon he knew about their development plans and their bids and was able to head off their deals.

    Business Review Weekly, July 14, 1989

  • Debugging is now growth industry
    The discovery of devices at White Industries in 1980 shocked the corporate world out of its complacency over industrial sabotage.

    Until then, many believed such methods were employed only in films or in the tough US business arena.

    Financial Review, Mar 21, 1983

  • Company office debugged
    Clandestine listening devices have been found in the Sydney office of two directors of White Industries Ltd, the NSW coalmining and engineering company.

    One was found in the ceiling of the North Sydney office of Mr. Travers Duncan, an executive director of the company.

    Sydney Morning Herald

  • Anyone for a 'gumshoe'
    Sydney's most colourful private investigator Frank Monte is packing his bags for the bright lights of Hollywood. After 26 years of breaking down doors, bugging telephones, setting up a mercenary Army in Dubai and working as a bodyguard for the late Aristotle Onassis, Monte is franchising out his successful Sydney Business after failing to sell it for $4 million.

    Sydney Morning Herald, Oct, 27, 1991

  • Big rush to join Monte's Army of Spies
    Frank Monte, private eye, sighed wearily and waved an ornamental dagger at the shuttered window of his inner sanctum. Out there in the naked city was a man, a good man, the man Monte called his "spymaster". "But," Monte shrugged, "he's burnt out."

    Sep 14, 1986

  • Debugging booming says Private Eye
    He is one of the Australia's youngest property developers and made his millions quickly. He appeared to have uncanny timing, knowing exactly when to strike a deal for maximum profit. But what few observers realise is that when he was desperate for success, he risked fines and imprisonment by bugging his competitors' telephones and offices. Soon he knew about their development plans and their bids and was able to head off their deals.

    The Daily Mirror, Jan 28, 1986

  • Spy for hire
    Superspy Frank Monte lives in the cloak and dagger world of James Bond: changing cars to shake off any tails, packing a pistol, even living at a secret address. And Italian-born Frank, 35, is the first to say that the average image of the private eye comes straight from the movies and is a long way from the truth. Yet he frequently debugs his office and home, looks over his shoulder when he is in the street and works from an office with peepholes, security and cameras and mirror wall tiles.

    Parade, Aug, 1981

  • Monte's Trump card
    Former really rich guy Donald Trump is still hustling hard in the land of capitalistic excess. Last week he threw a party at his Plaza Hotel in New York and who else should The Donald bump into but Sydney gumshoe Frank Monte Now, our Frank is always on the lookout for some publicity. He obviously figured it was better to meet Donald Trump now than never.

    The Sun Herald, May 19, 1991

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