Secretive Sun Valley Media Conference on Alert for Drone Spies
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As billionaires and dealmakers descend upon Sun Valley, Idaho, for the Allen & Co. media conference this week, security personnel are on the lookout for a new kind of threat: drones.
Event staff are watching the skies for unmanned aerial vehicles that could photograph, harass or harm attendees at the annual gathering of business executives, according to two people familiar with the plans who asked not to be named. While scouts have monitored for remote-controlled drones at previous Allen & Co. events, they’re more prevalent this year as the flying gizmos become increasingly commonplace, said one of the people, a security official who sought anonymity because the measures are private.
Jack Sibbach, director of public relations at Sun Valley Resort, referred inquiries to MSA Security, which was hired for the event. A spokesman for MSA Security declined to comment. Herb Allen III, Allen & Co.’s president and CEO, didn’t respond to a phone message left at his New York office.
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