We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember geoff saying
something like:

But, as pointed out elsewhere, licence collection has been farmed out
to an external agency, what are they doing getting involved in something
which is no longer within their remit ?

ELINT isn't only about TV sets - I suspect that more than one of these
vans is in plain clothes.