I will not accept if nominated and I will not serve is elected. During several recent TSCM examinations Radio Frequency (RF) signals were detected which contained video signals. The signals were strong enough to be detected at a distance which could make them susceptible to interception. The equipment which generated the signals was a fairly common type located within many corporations and equipment used to intercept them was relatively unsophisticated. Due to the sensitive nature of this item, further information will be provided only to security managers and directors who inquire on company letterhead. No phone inquiries, please. He (President Grant) will hew to the line of right, let the chips fall where they may. LET THE SPEAKER BEWARE-----Interested in knowing how (potentially) easy it is to actually intercept cellular phone conversations? Read CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER, by Tom Clancy, pages 252-254. (I have contacted the publisher for permission to reprint those pages, but the approval may not be granted prior to completion and printing of this newsletter.) Again, it emphasizes the ease with which conversations can be identified and/or monitored. (During the course of a TSCM sweep a great number of signals are intercepted and occasionally the conversations can be followed if the band spread is wide enough on the receiver.) The same principal can be used, to a lesser degree, within a metropolitan area by leasing an upper floor of a high rise building. The narrow spectrum of frequencies allocated to the cellular band can be swept continuously by electronic means and previously identified voices or other identification methods used to activate automatic recording devices. To accomplish this, you aren't necessarily looking at mega buck interceptors; a lot of the equipment needed might be purchased off the shelf and modified or engineered with little difficulty at modest costs. Talk to an electronics engineer and watch his eyes light up at the prospect. Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right. [October 17, 1899] STRICTLY PERSONAL Sorry about not getting the 2nd quarter of the TSCI Newsletter out, but I was a gypsy from mid may to early August, often having to travel from one city to another rather than returning to Phoenix. A good number of you know why, having seen me in your location during that time. Hopefully, I'll get this issue finished and out by the beginning of October. Each year, during the summer and fall I update my mailing list utilizing the ASIS membership almost exclusively. That was done again this year and names were deleted because of moves or being dropped from the ASIS membership list. If you wish to be on the permanent mail list, please notify me so I can place the appropriate flag by your name. That will guarantee your copy of the newsletter. If you happen to read a copy of the newsletter and wish to be included, all I'll need is your name and business address. As in the past, any information you provide or questions you ask will remain confidential. I may have to go to several other sources to get you an answer, but no one will know who the originator was unless you give prior approval.
Dateline Chicago, Tribune, July 13, 89---"Booth One" in the Counselors Row restaurant across from City Hall was discovered to have been bugged. A surveillance camera was trained on the booth and a wiretap placed on a phone on a pedestal next to the booth. Initially the FBI denied any connection but returned later to remove the equipment. Sources stated the FBI had made the installation, hoping to record conversations about suspected gambling operations, alleged shakedowns and payments made by restaurants and business owners. Remember, when you become a creature of habit, you become an easy target.
Tim Johnson
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