THE FEDS Part I "Electronic Surveillance" By The Dutchman with special thanks to The Kracken ][ THE SHADOW BROTHERHOOD ][ In todays society everything can be a bust. Even calling between payfones can be immediately tapped. Any room can be bugged. Laser beams can bebounced off window panes to reveal conversations. Whispered conversations in atraveling car can be revealed by a properly equip speeding car. PoliceInfiltrators carry bugs in the heals of their shoes. In Basement rooms oftelephone exchanges, recorders monitor hundreds of telephone calls. These are but a few of the many ways ma and the fed's try and bust ya,there's many many more from pen bugs to neck tie bugs and on and on. In order to distinguish, a Tap is used only for fones where as a bug isfor monitoring convo's in a room. Elsur is the FBI's acronym for these arts. The FBI as well as many other installations have been known to make"Suicide Taps" These are illegal taps and called "Suicide" because of theresult if found out. This doesn't bother the agencies very much for with theinfo they can gather their bond to find some way to bust you legally, that isas long as their tap isn't found out. Surveillance goes so far as transatlantic. According to the NationalSecurity Agency (NSA), every transatlantic call entering or leaving the U.S. isrecorded by the agency. The army appears to also monitor the mails. Anexample of this was recorded when a 14 year old boy decided he wanted to go tocamp in East Germany, a camp run by the East German communist party. Allsummer long all letters written by his parents to him and officials there wheresummarized by a unit of ASA known as U.S. Army Operations and ResearchDetachment (USAO & RD) in Frankfurt. The address of the unit is the same asNSA headquarters for Europe. The USAO &RD passed these along to the U.S. legalattache in Bonn, He passed them on to FBI H.Q. in Washington D.C. and than tothe FBI H.Q. in Philadelphia. None of this suggests that a special investigation was going on, infactall facts point in the direction that the FBI became curious from routinetransatlantic mail checks by Army Surveillance. Now, is East Germany anexception or are all bloc countries checked? According to federal figures taps operating for a period of 2 weeks forone year cost $700 for the feds and $388 for locals per day. At these rates100 taps operating for one year in N.Y.C. would cost one and a half times theN.Y.C. Intelligence Units budget. So where do all the money for "legal" tapscome from? They have to be using illegal ones. The best guide to electronic surveillance equipment comes from acommercial publishing firm called Sirchie Fingerprint Laboratories ofMoerestown, N.J.. These are only available to law enforcement agencies. Thecatalogue is suppose to only come to those who send the correct letterhead oflegit authorities. I have one. It features microfones smaller than a button,ones that can be used as a working piece of a telephone. Dozens of systems allcontaining a recorder. There's a few with the logo "Undetectable by telephonecompany." All mic's run between 175-200 mhz. So you could make your own orpick up the wave from a bought radio. Another catalog is by Jensen Tools incof 7815 S. 46th street, Phoenix, Arizona. You can send away for this one. Itmay not specialize in surveillance but it does include telephone testequipment, Linesman handsets, recorders that only start when a pre-fixed toneis given, traces and many others. Agents who infiltrate places are usually the ones who hold their postbecause of their skill not background or honesty for the cause. One might bein a terrorist group simply for their explosive expertise, or a computer groupfor their hacking expertise. You can also tell pigs by what they wear whenthey aren't around you, or eventually if their seen around federal buildings. If your really worried about someone check everything on them out, if they saytheir sick check, if they say their mothers sick check, use the CN/A operator,check it could well prove worth it. One good example of this was when a fellow hacker under the name of "TheRevenger" who was actually a cop started up a BBS. He had people from TheShadow Brotherhood, Mtn. High hackers, The Nihilist order, and KAOS inc. whichwas basically all of these put together. The BBS included myself, Dr. D-code,The Highwayman, Sir William, and many others. Some of the local members arenow facing charges for credit fraud, and illegal trafficing. The sysop was notto be trusted, just to show you what we're up against. What can you do about electronic surveillance? Well exposure of the onesdoing it is great help, better laws. But you must remember such agencies suchas the FBI like to make it seam they are bigger than they really are, that theyhave agents everywhere and are listening to every conversation, this simplycannot be done. Going through the courts is the best you can do, and if youinlist such agencies as the ACLU, the Citizens Commission to Investigate theFBI (CCIFBI) or some other civil liberties organization (the feds hate em). But you must always beware, in at least one case Bell's special Intelligenceforce (SIF) has been known to result to harassment and such because of no"legal" way to get info out of a person, But of course this is extreme. Questions? You can reach me on Metalland ][ 503/253-5300 p/w: OZONE n
