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                       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 pay
fones can be immediately tapped.  Any room can be bugged.  Laser beams can be
bounced off window panes to reveal conversations.  Whispered conversations in a
traveling car can be revealed by a properly equip speeding car.  Police
Infiltrators carry bugs in the heals of their shoes.  In Basement rooms of
telephone 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 is
for 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 the
result if found out.  This doesn't bother the agencies very much for with the
info they can gather their bond to find some way to bust you legally, that is
as long as their tap isn't found out.
     Surveillance goes so far as transatlantic.  According to the National
Security Agency (NSA), every transatlantic call entering or leaving the U.S. is
recorded by the agency.  The army appears to also monitor the mails.  An
example of this was recorded when a 14 year old boy decided he wanted to go to
camp in East Germany, a camp run by the East German communist party.  All
summer long all letters written by his parents to him and officials there where
summarized by a unit of ASA known as U.S. Army Operations and Research
Detachment (USAO & RD) in Frankfurt.  The address of the unit is the same as
NSA headquarters for Europe.  The USAO &RD passed these along to the U.S. legal
attache in Bonn, He passed them on to FBI H.Q. in Washington D.C. and than to
the FBI H.Q. in Philadelphia.
     None of this suggests that a special investigation was going on, infact
all facts point in the direction that the FBI became curious from routine
transatlantic mail checks by Army Surveillance.  Now, is East Germany an
exception or are all bloc countries checked?
     According to federal figures taps operating for a period of 2 weeks for
one year cost $700 for the feds and $388 for locals per day.  At these rates
100 taps operating for one year in N.Y.C. would cost one and a half times the
N.Y.C. Intelligence Units budget.  So where do all the money for "legal" taps
come from?  They have to be using illegal ones.
     The best guide to electronic surveillance equipment comes from a
commercial publishing firm called Sirchie Fingerprint Laboratories of
Moerestown, N.J..  These are only available to law enforcement agencies.  The
catalogue is suppose to only come to those who send the correct letterhead of
legit 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 all
containing a recorder.  There's a few with the logo "Undetectable by telephone
company."  All mic's run between 175-200 mhz.  So you could make your own or
pick up the wave from a bought radio.  Another catalog is by Jensen Tools inc
of 7815 S. 46th street, Phoenix, Arizona.  You can send away for this one.  It
may not specialize in surveillance but it does include telephone test
equipment, Linesman handsets, recorders that only start when a pre-fixed tone
is given, traces and many others.
     Agents who infiltrate places are usually the ones who hold their post
because of their skill not background or honesty for the cause.  One might be
in a terrorist group simply for their explosive expertise, or a computer group
for their hacking expertise.  You can also tell pigs by what they wear when
they 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 say
their 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 "The
Revenger" who was actually a cop started up a BBS.  He had people from The
Shadow Brotherhood, Mtn. High hackers, The Nihilist order, and KAOS inc. which
was 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 are
now facing charges for credit fraud, and illegal trafficing.  The sysop was not
to be trusted, just to show you what we're up against.
     What can you do about electronic surveillance?  Well exposure of the ones
doing it is great help, better laws.  But you must remember such agencies such
as the FBI like to make it seam they are bigger than they really are, that they
have agents everywhere and are listening to every conversation, this simply
cannot be done.  Going through the courts is the best you can do, and if you
inlist such agencies as the ACLU, the Citizens Commission to Investigate the
FBI (CCIFBI) or some other civil liberties organization (the feds hate em).
But you must always beware, in at least one case Bell's special Intelligence
force (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


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