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- * YIPL (TAP) Issue # 1 *
- = June 1971 =
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- =TAP ON-LINE Courtesy of BIOC Agent 003 & Sherwood Forest ][ -- (914) 359-1517=
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- For this selection, I had to turn back through over 360 pages of TAPs which
- represent the results of over 13 years of "subversive" work by several dozen
- people. I have tried to reproduce it as accurately with possible since there
- are a few diagrams. As for the format it was a four page booklet (the same
- format that is still used 13 years later) -- It was typewritten except for the
- larger print which was handwritten. Today, TAP looks a little more
- professional than it did in its former days. Also, TAP has become extremely
- "conservative" compared to the days of its youth when the newsletter was run
- by anti-war/anti-government/anti-everything yippies. Now, onto issue #1.
-
- - BIOC Agent 003
- Associate Editor
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Published June, 1971
- Monthly
-
- THE YOUTH INTERNATIONAL PARTY LINE'S FIRST ISSUE
-
- We at YIPL would
- like to offer
- thanks to
- all you phreeks
- out there. Most of you who are now
- receiving this met us in Washington on Mayday,
- where we distributed 10,000 promo flyers. So far
- we have received over 50 responses, complete with
- contributions, encouragement, and spirit. We may
- not have done well percentage-wise, but the fact
- that there are 50 people all over the country willing
- to fight back speaks for itself. We are sure that from
- the spirit of response, YIPL membership will really
- skyrocket. However, more important than our numbers,
- in our opinion, is the feeling and motivation for this
- movement. The disappointment we feel toward Amerika has
- turned to hatred as we saw the futility of the movement
- to improve it, and to frustation as our outside efforts
- were repressed and forbidden. But we did NOT turn our
- backs on the movement for change. YIPL believes that
- education alone cannot affect the System, but deucation
- can be an ivaluable tool for those willing to use it.
- Specifically, YIPL will show you why something must be
- done immediately in regard, of course, to the improper
- control of the communication in this country by none
- other than the BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY.
-
- So if your friends want to get in on the fun, let them
- read your newsletter, and you might want to research your
- own questions in your local library, and help to start the
- education of your community of the phone company's part in the
- war against the poor, the non-white, the non-conformist, and in
- general, against the people. Show your neighbors, friends and the
- representatives of your area how the Bell System and the Amerikan
- government are co-conspirators. If your friendscan't subscribe to
- YIPL, that; is cool, is convenient for our small staff, and is right on
- if they can send a buck as a donation and read your newsletter. We also
- need stamps, letters, and envelopes, which maybe they can get from their
- office at work. Because we are already sending out issues to people short
- on bread, we really do need this kind of help. We will report on all of our
- finances from time to time, and if you can dig it, we will probably need some
- kind of bail fund set up. If any YIPL busts happen, we'd like to ask you all
- in advance to work extra hard for the cause.People, thanks again. Love
-
- THE CREDIT CARD CODE
- The 1971 Credit Card system works as follows: The telephone number (7 digits)
- of the number to be billed is followed by the secret number for the area
- code of the number. They are listed below for several cities.At the end
- of the number comes a letter that matches the sixth digit of the telephone
- number. Many people look up the number of a large Company in the area and
- use their number, cause using any old number might lead to THAT person
- refusing to pay, and the Phone Company's hasseling the person to whom the
- call was placed. They should say that others use that phone, and they don't
- know anything. Fraud is illegal, so WE don't think you should make free calls.
- This Code has already been printed in many underground papers, as you know.
- Detroit-083 Boston-001 Phila.-041 1=Q 4=H 7=R 0=Z
- Washington-032 San Fran-158 Pitts.-030 2=A 5=J 8=U
- New York-021 Chicago-097 3=E 6=N 9=W
-
- Example- 769-1900-069-Z (I.B.M. ,Amant,N.Y.)
- !------^
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- TECHNICAL INFOMRMATION
-
- As long as you're paying a bill, the phone company will tend to let you be.
- We all know that you might have extra phones you want connected as freebees.
- Not Western Electric phones, of course. Remember, the phone company "frowns
- upon" hooking them up yourself, so wwe suggest you have a friend do it.
-
- On-hook voltage:45V
- Off-hook voltage:4.5V Your telephone line is usually a red and a green
- Ring pulses: 90V wire. A yellow is sometimes used for ringing. Un-
- screw your storebought phone on the bottom and
- you will find a box with a bunch of screws on it. Connecting as in the
- phone will keep it a secret from "Them".
-
- --------------------------------------------------
- ! ***************************Disconnect this Bell wire(it is red)
- ! * **************** *<---------^^^^^
- ! * * ********** * * !
- ! ---------W W W W* ----*---*--------*---- !
- ! ( ) I I I I * O * G R##############################>
- ! ( Bell )R R R R ! O # Y## O ! !
- ! -------------E E E E ! # O ###############################*
- ! ! ! -----------------#####################################*##>
- ! ----------- ( ) ! !
- ! ! ( ) ! ! Connect the Yellow and the
- ! ! ( Dial ) ! ! Green wires together as one
- ! ! ( ) ! ! where they meet the main
- ! ! ( ) ! ! telephone wires.
- ! --- ( ) ----- !
- ! ( ) !
- Ever wonder how those conference call makers that are sold on the commercial
- market work? What they do is as follows:
- DOUBLE-POLE, DOUBLE-THROW,>>>>> **********> TO PHONE
- CENTER-OFF, SWITCH ! * *****>
- !--------!<< !-*----*-!
- ! I** I**************I ***I !
- ! * ! ! * !
- ! ********************* !
- LINE 1 ! ! ! ! LINE 2
- RED<******************************* ! ! *************>RED
- ! * ! ! * !
- GREEN<***************************I **I ! ! I* I********>GREEN
- ! ! ! !
- ! ************************** !
- ! * ! ! * !
- ! I I**************I I !
- !--------! !-!----!-!
- ZZZZZZ<-1000 OHM,1 WATT
- RESISTOR
- Flickering a switch up puts the phone on that number. Flicking it down puts
- that number on "hold". The center position turns the first number off. The
- resistor keeps the line "off the hook" electrically, so if it is on hold,
- you will not be able to receive phone calls on that number. You line would
- would appear "busy" to callers. Simple enough?
-
- Yippies have been know to fool around with shit like this from time to
- time without the permission of their local telephone company and even
- though they usually get away with it, we at YIPL would never think of
- advocating that thype of irresponsible activity. You should always check
- with your local phone company to pay them any extra money that you might
- be responsible to them for, before ever fooling around with your phone.
- The phone company is our friend, and they are here to help you.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
-
- Dear phreeks,
- I'm a phreeks in need of information, so I can balance the score between the
- Bell Kompany & the people. I enclose a dollar. Your brother in the movement-
- H.M., Jamestown, N.D.
-
- My dearest sirs:
- Nothing pleasure me more than ripping off Mother Bell.Please send newsletter.
- Encloses is $1 U.S. Also-a question...A few friends of mine make long distance
- calls free from pay phone booths by holding the mouthpiece of the phone they're
- using up to the phone next to it so the operator hears the change jingle and
- makes the connection. I've tried it here in D.C. and the operator says the
- cash hasn't registered (which of course it hasn't). Please tell why. Thanks a
- lot. B.S., DuBois, Pa.
-
- In our nation's Kapital there are the shiny new pay phones that work
- electronically, instead of the ding (5c), ding-ding (10c) or dong (25c).New
- ones have only one slot for depoit, and oon old ones your trick works, but hold
- the handset CLOSE to that phone!
- Editor
-
- Send me the shit and don't rip me off (please) S.M., Winchester, Pa.
-
- Dear Y.I.P.L.,
- I thought you might be interested in a movement started here in Lancaster. The
- movement is to have people who wish to see our troops out of Vietname this year
- call their local phone company manager and have their phone removed. The
- manager must be told why if it is to have any effect.Hopefully enough people
- will feel strongly & give up phone service to begin showing up on the profits
- of the phone company. This would push the phone lobbies to speak out (Bell
- especially) to end our continued involvement there. If you can assist in any
- way by encouraging this to take place in other areas it would be appreciated.
- Thanks! J.G., Lancaster, Pa.
-
- Hi People,
- Here's my bill, send me shit on fucking the Bell System. Man do I need info on
- this kinda shit thanks D.B., State College, Pa.
-
- ===============================================================================
- OUR FRIENDLY PHONE COMPANY...
-
- Our example of eavesdropptin that touches a vast number of Americans was
- related to the Subcommittee by Joseph Beirne, President of the Communications
- Worker of America. He revealed that the phone company does not limit its
- invasions of privacy to assisting the FBI an other government tappers.He
- pointed out that " as part of its training program, and as part of its cont-
- inuing close supervision of its employees, the telephone industry has developed
- equiptment for monitoring its operators, its service assistants, its commercial
- office employees-in short, all of its employees who deal with the customer.
- Such monitoring means, of course, that the customer is, in effect, monitored at
- the same same time."
- "An alert snooper is sometimes able to obtain the information he needs simply
- by calling the telephone office and posing as a telephone repairman. Or, if
- the tapper is a law-enforcement officer, here may be able to secure the
- outright cooperation of the telephone company in the placing of his taps. In
- Kansas City, the existence of just such an arrangement between the telephone
- company and the chief of police was reveled."
- The above two quotes were made by Senator Edward V. Long.
-
- In the office we call it "The System", and use of the word "the" means dog-
- matic finality. The wall comes up pretty fast when you start tampering with
- the way things are done within The System, and you either slow down and do
- things Bell's way or knock your brains out.-AT&T junior executive,spring,1967
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- In April of 1966, as the government was excalating the Vietnam war, Congress
- passed a law raising the Federal tax on telephone service to 10%. "It is
- clear," said Rep. Wilbur Mills, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee,
- "that Vietnam and only the Vietnam operation makes the bill necessary".
- -Congressional Record,February 23,1966.
-
- The War Tax Resistance is showing people how to refuse to pay this war tax. In
- most cases, the IRS will come to collect with 6% interest but your phone
- service will continue. But the more it's done, the more it costs Them in time,
- trouble and embarrasment for Uncle Sham. Do it, and tell your friends,
- relatives and neighbors to do the same. Include a letter to this effect to the
- phone company and your congressmen:
-
- Date_____________________
-
- BECAUSE OF THE BRUTAL AND AGGRESSIVE WAR the United States government is
- conducting against Vietnam, the amount of federal excise tax, $.............,
- has been decucted from my payment of this bill. I have opposed this war and
- protested against it in many ways. Now I must testify to my opposition by
- refusing to pay this tax.
-
- The telephone excise tax was raised in April, 1966, only in order to help
- pay for the war in Vietnam. Paying the tax means helping to pay for outright
- atrocities, for the murder of innocent women and chidren. It means helping to
- pay for the indicscriminate bombin and napalming of defenseless villages. It
- means helping to finance the shipping of American boys half way around the
- world to die defending an unpopular, totalitarian and corrupt regime.
-
- I am sorry for any incovenience my tax refusal may cause your office and
- hope you will understancd that this protest is not directed against the
- telephone company. I hope also that you will soon join me and the many others
- others who have decided that it is now necessary to oppose the war by refusing
- to pay the telephone exciese tax that helps finance it.
-
- Sincerely in peace,
-
-
-
-
- Distributed by WAR TAX RESISTANCE/339 Lafayette Street/New York, N.Y. 10012
-
- IN NEED
-
- How do we communicate with our people serving time in Nam? WPAX has a way.
- They're putting rock and sould and rap and education tapes on the air through
- Radio Hanoi, who is donating free air time to broadcast these "subversive"
- sounds, now banned by our government's stations. But WPAX need YOUR blank and
- recorded tapes, and of course, bread. Send what you can. If you want ot
- record your own show to be aired, ask them for details and they'll be happy to
- supply them. WPAX, Box 410, Cooper Station, N.Y.,N.Y. 10003
-
- GETTING PAST ISSUE OF YIPL
-
- Obviously, as the people join up later on, they're going to want info that was
- already published. So we'll have a stock of past issues, available at the
- ridiculous (?) price of 50c each. This MIGHT start to erase our deficit, but
- we'll lover the price if we can get enough contributions.
-
- IN OUR NEXT ISSUE
-
- We will have more letters, info, shit, and our man on the scene, Al Bell, will
- have some INSIDE INFO on the "Blue Box' that people all of the country are
- using on Ma Bell. Plus a dialouge with Russel Baker and Abbie Hoffman on Fones
-
- *****Picture of the OLD, OLD Bell logo (the one with the bell that has 'Bell
- System' written inside) with No. 1 written in the bell and Public Enemy written
- in the circular outside ring.
-
- We beg you consider donating a small percent of what YIPL helps you save.
-
- One year of newsletter is $4.
- YIPL,Room 504, 152 W. 42 St., N.Y.,N.Y.
-
- SF][G9:ba003.022285
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- [Courtesy of Sherwood Forest ][ -- (914) 359-1517]
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