From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Thu Mar 15, 2001 9:09am Subject: Re: REI reply to assistance? At 10:14 PM -0500 3/14/01, Edward J. Michaels wrote: >I guess this is all 1 each OSCOR, ORION and CPM-700 gets you when >dealing with a busy manufacturer? > >"Hello Edward J. > >We have received you're request and will respond as soon as possible. > >Thank You, >Research ELectronics Intl. >Copyright ©2000 Research ELectronics Intl. All Rights Reserved" Edward, I wouldn't be concerned, it was probably just a courtesy reply that REI sent you until a tech person could get back with you to take care of whatever problem or question you had. If for some reason you don't get the issue taken care of then feel free to present it to the list as there are easily 100 OSCORs, 50 ORIONs, and tons of other equipment between all of the 800+ active list members. -jma -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2733 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Thu Mar 15, 2001 0:07pm Subject: Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly. Ouch, ouch, ouch . . . Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly. When they lit a fire in the craft it sank, proving once and for all that you can't have your kayak and heat it too. Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, was known as the lesser of two weevils. It gets worse . . . A three-legged dog walked into a saloon in the Old West. He slid up to the bar and announced "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw." Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused his dentist's Novocain during root canal work? He wanted to transcend dental medication. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because," he said, "I can't stand chess nuts boasting in an open foyer." A man entered his local paper's pun contest. He sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did. And worse . . . A woman had twins, and gave them up for adoption. One of them went to a family in Egypt and was named Amahl. The other went to a family in Spain; they named him Juan. Years later, Juan sent a picture of himself to his mother. Upon receiving the picture, she told her husband that she wished she also had a picture of Amahl. Her husband responded, "But they are twins--if you've seen Juan, you've seen Amahl." And now the piece de resistance . . . Some friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise the funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the "Men of God," the rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. He asked his mother to ask the friars to get out of business. They ignored her, too. So the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the toughest and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store,saying he'd be back if they didn't close shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving once again (Brace yourself) that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars. -jma -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2734 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Thu Mar 15, 2001 0:22pm Subject: ATV Video Signals Here are some more ATV video signals that may be used for covert video. Mostly AM video, but could be FM. 421.25 426.25 427.25 434.92 434.00 439.25 471.75 477.25 483.25 489.25 495.25 910.25 922.25 923.25 1253.25 1277.25 1289.25 -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2735 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Thu Mar 15, 2001 7:02pm Subject: Think Keystone Kops When You Think of Our Spies Think Keystone Kops When You Think of Our Spies http://www.latimes.com/news/comment/20010315/t000022616.html By ALEXANDER COCKBURN The air quivers with gloomy assessments of the secrets "compromised" by the FBI's Robert Philip Hanssen, a senior official who stands accused of working for the Russians since 1985. If you believe the FBI affidavit against him filed in federal court, Hanssen not only betrayed spies working for the U.S.--some of whom were then executed--he ratted on "an entire technical program of enormous value, expense and importance to the United States." This turns out to have been the construction of a tunnel under the new Russian Embassy in Washington. Hanssen also allegedly trundled documents by the cartload to "dead drops" in various suburbs around Washington, often within a few minutes walk from his house. It's amusing to listen to U.S. counterintelligence officials now scorning Hanssen for lack of "trade craft" in using the same drop week after week. These are the same caliber of counterintelligence officials who remained incurious across the decades about the tinny clang of empty drawers in their "TOP SECRET" filing cabinets, all contents removed on a daily basis by one spy or another--Hanssen or, earlier, the CIA's Aldrich H. Ames are just two examples--who apparently deemed the use of copying machines too laborious. In just one assignment, the CIA later calculated, Ames gave the KGB a stack of documents estimated to be 15 to 20 feet high. The FBI's Hanssen was slack about "trade craft" because he knew just how remote the possibility of discovery was. The only risk he couldn't accurately assess was the one that brought him down: betrayal by a Russian official privy to the material he was sending to Moscow. The record of proven failure by U.S. intelligence agencies is long and dismal. To take two of the most notorious lapses, the CIA failed to predict the Sino-Soviet split and also gravely underestimated the speed with which the Soviet Union was falling apart, a blunder that the agency later tried to blame on Ames. In the mid-1990s, CIA Director John Deutch testified to Congress that "taken as a whole, Ames' activities facilitated the Soviet, and later the Russian, effort to engage in perception management operations." The purpose of this "perception management program," according to Deutch? "To convince us that the Soviets remained a superpower and that their military R&D program was robust." So here was Deutch (himself scandalously pardoned by President Clinton after personally perpetrating some of the most egregious security lapses in the CIA's history) claiming that treachery by the CIA's man Ames was the reason the CIA failed to notice that the Soviet Union was falling apart. Following that line of analysis, Ames could have entered a plea of innocence on the grounds that in helping the Soviet Union exaggerate its might, he was only following official agency policy. After all, one of the prime functions of the CIA in the Cold War years was to inflate the military capabilities of the Soviet Union, thereby assisting military contractors and their allies in Congress and the Pentagon in the extraction of money to build more weapons to counter these entirely imaginary Soviet threats. Back in the mid-1970s, CIA Director George H.W. Bush found that regular CIA analysts were making insufficiently alarmist assessments of Soviet might and promptly installed Team B, a group replete with trained exaggerators, who then contrived the lies necessary to justify the soaring Pentagon procurement budgets of the Reagan '80s. Anyway, real secrets, the kind that divert the mighty over breakfast, don't concern weapons but gossip: the exact capabilities of Dick Cheney's heart, for example, or the sexual peccadilloes of public figures. That's the sort of stuff J. Edgar Hoover used to keep in his safe. These days, the nation's real intelligence work is being done by the National Enquirer. We could cut off the CIA and FBI intelligence budgets and improve the security of this nation all at once by simply relying on its pages. A final parable about another intelligence debacle is the failure to predict Egypt's attack on Israel in the Yom Kippur War in October 1973. In fact, a CIA analyst named Fred Fear had noticed earlier that year that the Egyptians were buying a lot of bridge-building equipment from the Russians. Assessing the nature and amount of this equipment, Fear figured out where the bridges would be deployed across the Suez Canal and how many troops could get across them. He wrote a report, with maps, predicting how the Egyptians would attack. Fear's superiors ignored the report until the attack took place. Then they hauled it out, tore off the maps and sent them to the White House, labeled as "current intelligence." - - - Alexander Cockburn Is Co-author With Jeffrey St. Clair and Allan Sekula of "Five Days That Shook the World: Seattle and Beyond," Just Released by Verso Press -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2736 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Thu Mar 15, 2001 7:03pm Subject: FBI Names Counterintelligence Chief FBI Names Counterintelligence Chief http://www.worldnews.com/?action=display&article=6218187&template=worldnews/search.txt&index=recent The Associated Press, Thu 15 Mar 2001 WASHINGTON (AP) ­ The FBI chose a 28-year veteran agent and former counterespionage chief at the CIA to coordinate the government's spy-fighting activities. FBI Special Agent David W. Szady was named Thursday to head a counterintelligence ``board of directors'' that includes senior deputies at the CIA and the Defense Department and FBI Director Louis Freeh. The position was created by an executive order signed by President Clinton in January. Szady, a special agent in the FBI's Portland, Ore., office, has 25 years of experience in counterintelligence investigations, and has served as chief of the CIA's counterintelligence center, the FBI said in a news release. A 28-year FBI veteran, Szady has been assigned to counterintelligence matters in San Francisco and Washington. Freeh said Szady's job will be to ``develop a national strategy for the protection of the nation's most sensitive national security information in coordination with the United States counterintelligence community.'' The announcement comes a month after the FBI accused veteran agent Robert Philip Hanssen of spying for Moscow for 15 years while holding a variety of counterintelligence jobs with access to some of the country's most sensitive secrets. How Hanssen allegedly spied without being detected by his supervisors has raised questions about security practices at the FBI and sparked two internal investigations. -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2737 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Thu Mar 15, 2001 7:04pm Subject: FBI selects counterintelligence czar FBI selects counterintelligence czar http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/03/15/fbi.counterspy.czar/index.html March 15, 2001 Web posted at: 11:26 a.m. EST (1626 GMT) From CNN Correspondent Kelli Arena WASHINGTON (CNN) -- FBI Director Louis Freeh has selected a counterintelligence "czar" who will be given the task of strengthening U.S. capabilities to track spies, CNN learned Thursday. FBI special agent David Szady will be the new director of the program called CI21. Szady is a 28-year counterintelligence specialist who heads the FBI's Portland, Oregon, field office. The White House is expected to make the announcement, followed by a statement from the FBI. CI21 -- which stands for counterintelligence for the 21st century -- was created by a presidential directive signed in the last days of the Clinton administration. The directive mandates the appointment of a counterspy czar. The directive also outlines steps to enable the counterintelligence officials to better fulfill their mission of identifying, understanding, prioritizing and counteracting the intelligence threats faced by the United States. The FBI has come under increasing criticism following the arrest of Robert Hanssen, a 25-year FBI veteran who allegedly served as a spy for the Soviet Union and then Russia starting in 1985. -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2738 From: Steve Uhrig Date: Thu Mar 15, 2001 9:41pm Subject: Video, TSCM, surveillance and cameras Hello all, Anyone installing, using or maintaining video systems of any sort may enjoy reading an article I recently wrote and just posted to our site: http://www.swssec.com/videoart.html Police & Security News magazine will print it in 4 parts starting with the March issue. Youse guys get an advance copy. Also have posted an updated used equipment list with surveillance, countersurveillance and communications gear plus some other stuff: http://www.swssec.com/used.html and Minox cameras: http://www.swssec.com/minox.html We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? Steve ******************************************************************* Steve Uhrig, SWS Security, Maryland (USA) Mfrs of electronic surveillance equip mailto:Steve@s... website http://www.swssec.com tel +1+410-879-4035, fax +1+410-836-1190 "In God we trust, all others we monitor" ******************************************************************* 2739 From: Bob Washburne Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 8:49am Subject: An Irish Toast An Irish toast to all the White Hats out there: "Here's to you, as good as you are, and to me, as bad as I am. "For as good as you are and as bad as I am "I'm as good as you are as bad as I am!" Happy St. Patty's Day. Bob Washburne - Ach! The wee folk ha' been recallibratin' me equipment! 2740 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 10:27am Subject: Hello, is this the FBI? "Hello, is this the FBI?" "Yes. What do you want?" "I'm calling to report about my neighbor Billy Bob Smith! He is hiding marijuana inside his firewood." "Thank you very much for the call, sir." The next day, the FBI agents descend on Billy Bob's house. They search the shed where the firewood is kept. Using axes, they bust open every piece of wood, but find no marijuana. They swore at Billy Bob and left.. The phone rings at Billy Bob's house. "Hey, Billy Bob! Did the FBI come?" "Yeah!" "Did they chop your firewood?" "Yep." "Merry Christmas Buddy" -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 2741 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 10:29am Subject: The Army A friend was in front of me coming out of church one day, and as always the preacher was standing at the door shaking hands as the congregation departed. He grabbed my friend by the hand and pulled him aside. The preacher said to him, "You need to join the Army of the Lord!" My friend replied, "I'm already in the Army of the Lord, Preacher." The preacher questioned, "How come I don't see you except for Christmas and Easter?" He whispered back, "I'm in the secret service." -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2742 From: Dawn Star Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 10:59am Subject: Unknown Lamp Pole Device While doing a sweep in the inner city in Los Angeles yesterday, I saw the following: On a standard cast metal street lamp in a residential neighborhood was mounted a white electronics package, The device was held around the neck of the pole (underside) with metal bands. The box was 8" long x 4" deep x 4" wide. It was mounted by the lamp head and a black wire came out of the box to the lamp head for what appears to be power. The box is cream color with varieties of numbers printed on its case. A cell frequency antenna with two pigtails is hanging out of the bottom of the box. There appears to be no lens holes but could have a pin hole. This is a side street with no traffic. No other poles in the area had this unit. What do you know out there? Roger Tolces, Electronic Security, Los Angeles 2743 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 10:30am Subject: Now this is tact A burglar broke into the house of a Quaker in the middle of the night and started to rob it. The Quaker heard the noise and went downstairs with his shotgun. When he found the burglar he pointed his gun at him and said gently, "Friend, I mean thee no harm, but thou standest where I am about to shoot!" -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2744 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 10:32am Subject: On our 25th anniversary On our 25th anniversary, my husband took me out to dinner. Our teenage daughters said they'd have dessert waiting for us when we returned. After we got home, we saw that the dining room table was beautifully set with china, crystal and candles, and there was a note that read: "Your dessert is in the refrigerator. We are staying with friends, so go ahead and do something we wouldn't do!" My husband turned to me and said, "I suppose we could vacuum." -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2745 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 10:35am Subject: Divorce A judge was interviewing a woman regarding her pending divorce, and asked, "What are the grounds for your divorce?" She replied, "About four acres and a nice little home in the middle of the property with a stream running by." "No," he said, "I mean what is the foundation of this case?" "It is made of concrete, brick and mortar," she responded. "I mean," he continued, "What are your relations like?" "I have an aunt and uncle living here in town, and so do my husband's parents." He said, "Do you have a real grudge?" "No," she replied, "We have a two-car carport and have never really needed one." "Please," he tried again, "is there any infidelity in your marriage?" "Yes, both my son and daughter have stereo sets. We don't necessarily like the music, but the answer to your questions is yes." "Ma'am, does your husband ever beat you up?" "Yes," she responded, "about twice a week he gets up earlier than I do." Finally, in frustration, the judge asked, "Lady, why do you want a divorce?" "Oh, I don't want a divorce," she replied. "I've never wanted a divorce. My husband does. He said he can't communicate with me." -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2746 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 10:40am Subject: Office Memo Regarding Retirement Memo to all employees As a result of the reduction of money budgeted for department areas, we are forced to cut down on our number of personnel. Under this plan, older employees will be asked to go on early retirement, thus permitting the retention of the younger people who represent our future. Therefore, a program to phase out older personnel by the end of the current fiscal year, via retirement, will be placed into effect immediately. This program will be known as SLAP (Sever Late Aged Personnel). Employees who are SLAPPED will be given the opportunity to look for jobs outside the company. Provided they are SLAPPED, they can request a review of their employment records before actual retirement takes place. This phase of the operation is called SCREW (Survey of Capabilities of Retired Early Workers). All employees who have been SLAPPED or SCREWED may file an appeal with the upper management. This is called SHAFT (Study by Higher Authority Following Termination). Under the terms of the new policy, an employee may be SLAPPED once, SCREWED twice, but may be SHAFTED as many times as the company deems appropriate. If an employee follows the above procedures, he/she will be entitled to get HERPES (Half Earnings for Retired Personnel's Early Severance) or CLAP (Combined Lumpsum Assistance Payment) unless he/she already has AIDS (Additional Income From Dependents or Spouse). As HERPES or CLAP are considered benefit plans, any employee who has received HERPES or CLAP will no longer be SLAPPED or SCREWED by the company. Management wishes to assure the younger employees who remain on board will meet the company's high standards. The company will continue its policy to train employees through our Special High Intensity Training (SHIT). This company takes pride in the amount of SHIT our employees receive. We have given our employees more SHIT than any company in this area. If any employee feels they do not receive enough SHIT on the job, see your immediate supervisor. -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2747 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 11:44am Subject: Re: Unknown Lamp Pole Device At 8:59 AM -0800 3/16/01, Dawn Star wrote: >While doing a sweep in the inner city in Los Angeles yesterday, I saw the >following: >On a standard cast metal street lamp in a residential neighborhood was >mounted a white electronics package, The device was held around the neck of >the pole (underside) with metal bands. The box was 8" long x 4" deep x 4" >wide. It was mounted by the lamp head and a black wire came out of the box >to the lamp head for what appears to be power. The box is cream color with >varieties of numbers printed on its case. A cell frequency antenna with two >pigtails is hanging out of the bottom of the box. There appears to be no >lens holes but could have a pin hole. This is a side street with no >traffic. No other poles in the area had this unit. >What do you know out there? >Roger Tolces, Electronic Security, Los Angeles Are you sure it's not a microcell? What where the markings on the case. What electromagnetic signals did it create Any links to the phone lines? Do you have pictures or at least some measurements? Suspect it is hostile until you can prove otherwise. -jma -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2748 From: Marcelrf Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 11:17am Subject: Re: Unknown Lamp Pole Device It could be a few things; 1) Metricom 2.4 Gig /900mhz Transmitter/ Rpt 2) Meter reading Rpt- SCADA 3) Cellular Pico Cell These are my 1st guesses......but could be a few others any names or # on the box?? Dawn Star wrote: > While doing a sweep in the inner city in Los Angeles yesterday, I saw the > following: > On a standard cast metal street lamp in a residential neighborhood was > mounted a white electronics package, The device was held around the neck of > the pole (underside) with metal bands. The box was 8" long x 4" deep x 4" > wide. It was mounted by the lamp head and a black wire came out of the box > to the lamp head for what appears to be power. The box is cream color with > varieties of numbers printed on its case. A cell frequency antenna with two > pigtails is hanging out of the bottom of the box. There appears to be no > lens holes but could have a pin hole. This is a side street with no > traffic. No other poles in the area had this unit. > What do you know out there? > Roger Tolces, Electronic Security, Los Angeles > > > ======================================================== > TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List > "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" > > To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: > http://www.onelist.com/community/TSCM-L > > or email your subscription request to: > subTSCM-L@t... > =================================================== TSKS > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ -- "NEXTEL1 IT'S NOT JUST NEXTEL" Subscribe to Nextel1: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/NEXTEL1 2749 From: Steve Whitehead Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 3:03pm Subject: Phone-tap probe complete "Phone-tap probe complete Philip de Bruin A police dossier containing allegations of at least three criminal charges against Dr. Louis Luyt "or possibly other people", was on Friday morning handed to Advocate Andre de Vries SC, director of public prosecutions in the Witwatersrand. The dossier, consisting of two thick bundles, emanates from the police investigation into the Ellis Park/Luyt telephone bugging scandal last year. The charges which have to be considered at this early stage, said De Vries, are those of illegal tapping and transgression of the Telecommunications Act in connection with interfering with telephone cables as well as criminal defamation. "It is still too early to say which charges, if any, will eventually be formulated and who, if anyone, will be the accused. The dossier will now be studied before I make my final decision. That will probably take some time because it's a thick document," said De Vries. De Vries confirmed that apart from the three specific charges that were brought to his attention by the police, there "is also another charge or charges" against Luyt or other people that could arise from the investigation. According to Beeld's information, certain people refused to make statements to the police and there is a possibility that they could be summonsed according to Article 205 of the Criminal Procedure Act to compel them to make information at their disposal, available. De Vries would not comment on this because he had not yet studied the dossier. In a disclosure which shook South African rugby, Luyt confirmed in statements last year that he had had the telephone of Golden Lions Rugby Union (GLRU) head, Johan Prinsloo, tapped. Luyt alleged that Prinsloo and Laurie Mains, Cats coach, and former Springbok Hennie le Roux were busy with a "conspiracy" to undermine him and the Golden Lions Players' Trust (GLPT). Apart from the information he obtained through the tapping, Luyt said he also had a "source" from amongst the players (this later turned out to be former Golden Lion James Dalton). Court cases followed after Luyt's statements and tension in the GLRU camp increased. Prinsloo, Mains and Le Roux immediately reported Luyt's telephone tapping to the police, and it is this dossier that has been given to De Vries. Discontent in GLRU quarters at one stage reached breakpoint and spilled over into the GLPT. Those whom Luyt regarded as supporters of the Prinsloo camp found their positions as trustees under threat. Memanwhile the GLRU remained firm in its support for the Prinsloo group and there was open hostility between Luyt and the GLRU management. The upshot was that Luyt resigned as chairman of the GLPT and as chairman of the Ellis Park board. Luyt's son, Louis Jnr, eventually also resigned as director and CEO of Ellis Park" http://www.news24.co.za/News24/South_Africa/0,1113,2-7_997317,00.html Steve Whitehead Managing Member TSCM Services cc Tel (012) 664-3157 Fax (012) 664-3180 International (+2712) URL http://www.tscm.co.za E-mail sceptre@m... P O Box 16063, Lyttelton, 0140, Centurion, South Africa [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 2750 From: Talisker Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 3:37pm Subject: Smoke Detectors Hi all I'm like a bus, no mails for months then 2 at once :o) Smoke detectors are without doubt the bane of my life, they always trigger the NLJD, in offices they are mostly supplied from the mains, therefore need no maintenance. They have cables to the central panel therefore can extract the signal without the need to radiate. They are also difficult to get into and fragile putting the TSCM operative at risk from a lawsuit should a future fire go undetected. So, any tips from the seasoned prfessionals, on how they get round this problem. Take Care Andy http://www.networkintrusion.co.uk Talisker's Network Security Tools List Security Tools Notification http://groups.yahoo.com/group/security-tools/join 2751 From: Talisker Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 3:41pm Subject: Re: Unknown Lamp Pole Device Roger Was it purely a physical search that attracted you to the device or was it emanating, if so what were the characteristics? What were the various numbers printed on it's case? Take Care Andy http://www.networkintrusion.co.uk Talisker's Network Security Tools List Security Tools Notification http://groups.yahoo.com/group/security-tools/join ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dawn Star" To: Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:59 PM Subject: [TSCM-L] Unknown Lamp Pole Device > While doing a sweep in the inner city in Los Angeles yesterday, I saw the > following: > On a standard cast metal street lamp in a residential neighborhood was > mounted a white electronics package, The device was held around the neck of > the pole (underside) with metal bands. The box was 8" long x 4" deep x 4" > wide. It was mounted by the lamp head and a black wire came out of the box > to the lamp head for what appears to be power. The box is cream color with > varieties of numbers printed on its case. A cell frequency antenna with two > pigtails is hanging out of the bottom of the box. There appears to be no > lens holes but could have a pin hole. This is a side street with no > traffic. No other poles in the area had this unit. > What do you know out there? > Roger Tolces, Electronic Security, Los Angeles > > > > ======================================================== > TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List > "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" > > To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: > http://www.onelist.com/community/TSCM-L > > or email your subscription request to: > subTSCM-L@t... > =================================================== TSKS > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > 2752 From: Kevin D. Murray Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 4:39pm Subject: Re: Unknown Lamp Pole Device Roger, It is a Ricochet. Details at: http://www.metricom.com/ Kevin -- Kevin D. Murray CPP, CFE, CCO, BCFE Murray Associates Counterespionage Consultants to Business & Government Eavesdropping Detection Specialists www.spybusters.com Dawn Star wrote: > While doing a sweep in the inner city in Los Angeles yesterday, I saw the > following: > On a standard cast metal street lamp in a residential neighborhood was > mounted a white electronics package, The device was held around the neck of > the pole (underside) with metal bands. The box was 8" long x 4" deep x 4" > wide. It was mounted by the lamp head and a black wire came out of the box > to the lamp head for what appears to be power. The box is cream color with > varieties of numbers printed on its case. A cell frequency antenna with two > pigtails is hanging out of the bottom of the box. There appears to be no > lens holes but could have a pin hole. This is a side street with no > traffic. No other poles in the area had this unit. > What do you know out there? > Roger Tolces, Electronic Security, Los Angeles > > > ======================================================== > TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List > "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" > > To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: > http://www.onelist.com/community/TSCM-L > > or email your subscription request to: > subTSCM-L@t... > =================================================== TSKS > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 2753 From: Dawn Star Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 4:55pm Subject: Unknown Lamp Pole Device hi roger, you probably saw a metricom ricochet spread-spectrum data transceiver, which operates in the unlicensed 902-928 mhz band. i use the service here in philly, which provides 128kbps encrypted wireless internet access to laptops via a low-power pcmcia card or via a small 1watt external transceiver that plugs into a computer's serial or usb port. typically, metricom hangs one off a utility pole every 4 blocks, and there are quite a few of them here in center-city philadelphia. metricom's network coverage map indicates they have an infrastructure in LA. http://www.metricom.com -ed cummings Yes, I did get microwave data emissions in the 800 to 900 Meg range, wide band -spread spectrum and in places that I had not seen frequency centers before. The measurement was made from inside a house in a nearby location.The antenna on the pole being forty feet off the ground is impossible to get near for proximity readings. I also will not stand out in the street with a spectrum analyzer at an unknown location. Gone to jail once doing that! I did not have my binoculars on hand to get the unit numbers, I may go back for a re-check. I checked the map at the Metricom site and they say they service the area in which this unknown unit was located. This may be the answer. I'll do more research. One more thought, if this unit uses the single antenna to communicate with subscribers (Internet service modems) how does it communicate with its server. Typical cell systems implement connection with the switch with a microwave link and dish. This thing isn't capable of communication with both the subscriber and the server on the same antenna could it? That would be a tall order while multiplexing multiple subscribers. The pole had no evidence of any other wiring. Thanks, for your quick responses. Best, Roger Tolces, Electronic Security Co., Los Angeles 2754 From: Justin T. Fanning Date: Fri Mar 16, 2001 4:49pm Subject: Re: Unknown Lamp Pole Device I think you will find its a Bell South 'Mobile Data' service, if you search the Bell pages long enough you should find a picture. I was recently in CA, USA (close to Silicon Valley) and saw what you describe on apx. every 50'th street pole, take a drive around the area, see if you can find more. If you want to read more about Radio Data, its effectively an RF gateway into the public X.25 Data infrastructure, see one of the many providers at: http://www.data-mobile.com/bmd02000.html Of course, now that everyone is use to seeing such boxes, the potential for mis-use in much the same as cable repeaters now exists. I wouldn't be overly complacent, or overly concerned, a quick call to Bell South should confirm one way or the other. Hope this helps, Justin T. Fanning Justin@f... --- Talisker wrote: > > Roger > Was it purely a physical search that attracted you to the device or was it > emanating, if so what were the characteristics? > > What were the various numbers printed on it's case? > > Take Care > Andy > > http://www.networkintrusion.co.uk > Talisker's Network Security Tools List > > Security Tools Notification > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/security-tools/join > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dawn Star" > To: > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:59 PM > Subject: [TSCM-L] Unknown Lamp Pole Device > > > While doing a sweep in the inner city in Los Angeles yesterday, I saw the > > following: > > On a standard cast metal street lamp in a residential neighborhood was > > mounted a white electronics package, The device was held around the neck > of > > the pole (underside) with metal bands. The box was 8" long x 4" deep x 4" > > wide. It was mounted by the lamp head and a black wire came out of the box > > to the lamp head for what appears to be power. The box is cream color with > > varieties of numbers printed on its case. A cell frequency antenna with > two > > pigtails is hanging out of the bottom of the box. There appears to be no > > lens holes but could have a pin hole. This is a side street with no > > traffic. No other poles in the area had this unit. > > What do you know out there? > > Roger Tolces, Electronic Security, Los Angeles > > > > > > > > ======================================================== > > TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List > > "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" > > > > To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: > > http://www.onelist.com/community/TSCM-L > > > > or email your subscription request to: > > subTSCM-L@t... > > =================================================== TSKS > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > ======================================================== > TSCM-L Technical Security Mailing List > "In a multitude of counselors there is strength" > > To subscribe to the TSCM-L mailing list visit: > http://www.onelist.com/community/TSCM-L > > or email your subscription request to: > subTSCM-L@t... > =================================================== TSKS > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ 2755 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Sat Mar 17, 2001 9:42am Subject: The office bore who decided to be Bond SATURDAY MARCH 17 2001 The office bore who decided to be Bond BEN MACINTYRE America is gripped by the espionage case of a spy who invented himself Norman Mailer has agreed, for an undisclosed but presumably enormous sum, to write the screenplay for a film about Robert Hanssen, the FBI agent who was arrested on multiple espionage charges last month. Hanssen had been in jail less than three weeks when Mailer was signed up, but it is only appropriate that he should already be heading into celluloid. The tale was made-for-television. Indeed, to read the letters Hanssen allegedly wrote to his Soviet and Russian handlers over the years, he seems to have invented himself for the screen, as the lead actor in a rolling drama of his own creation. The letters are packed with the sort of slick, corny lines Hollywood craves _- "Something has aroused the sleeping tiger" and "Life is full of ups and downs" - written just before Hanssen was captured by his fellow FBI agents, and accused of turning over to Moscow a vast array of secrets ("Nearly the whole goddam store," in the words of one FBI executive) that allegedly sent two Soviet double-agents to their deaths. Hanssen, to judge from the vast volume of evidence compiled against him, is a creation of art, fitting snugly into the long tradition of the criminal mastermind who lives an elaborate double-life. By day he was the dutiful and dull office agent, the churchgoing father of six, whose worst known sin was to allow his dog Sunday to run off its leash. But by night, say his accusers, he was "Ramon Garcia" or "B", the master-spy, the ruthless practitioner of dead-drop and double-cross, who stayed one step ahead of his pursuers for 15 years. Prosecutors have depicted Hanssen as the Professor Moriarty of spies. In Conan Doyle's words: "A genius, a philosopher, an abstract thinker. He has a brain of the first order . . . the organiser of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected." The Hanssen character is the direct heir to Doctor Jekyll, Keyser Söze from The Usual Suspects and Edgar Allen Poe's Man of the Crowd: the hidden evil-doer, the shadowy double-man, the innocuous suburban dad who turns out to be the über-traitor. This is material tailor-made for Mailer. The FBI's efforts to turn Hanssen into a bogeyman reflect the fact that he does not quite fit accepted patterns of spying, and his alleged actions may say more about the arrogant, elitist and self-embellishing world of international espionage than his fellow spies and counterspies would like to hear. Hanssen was no ideologue. In one letter, the writer claims to have been inspired to treachery by Kim Philby, but there is no hint Hanssen spied out of principle like the British double-agent. He was disdainful of "godless communism", and there is nothing in the evidence to suggest that he believed he was following a higher cause. He was not, apparently, driven by avarice. He lived frugally, and in debt; he never demanded more than he was given, and sometimes he asked for less. The affidavit alleges he was paid some $1.4 million in cash and diamonds, but he never spent it. There were no flashy cars, no expensive women, no honey traps or blackmail. He did not even need the companionship of fellow conspirators; indeed, the FBI thinks he he never met them. Instead, Hanssen may have been motivated by something much more complex: a peevish sense of under-appreciation that spilt into self-invention. The grandiosity, narcissism and arrogance of the letters are striking. To his colleagues, Hanssen was "The Mortician" or "Dr Death", a pudgy, humourless bore in a bad suit who had been promoted just as high as he deserved, and possibly a little higher. But the Hanssen of the letters is a daredevil, an intellectual colossus surrounded by pygmies. The writer is constantly looking at himself from outside, as if through a lens: "I am either insanely brave, or quite insane. I'd answer neither. I'd say insanely loyal." A recent study of some 150 treason cases in the US by researchers at Brigham Young University found an evolving espionage pattern: the ideologue-spy giving way to the mercenary-spy and, in more recent times, the traitor impelled by ego and disgruntlement. Hanssen seems to emerge from the latter category, but he may also represent a new species of double-agent, motivated by a powerful self-image familiar in film and literature, as the brilliant, lone anti-hero, operating unseen in the heart of the Establishment. Most intelligence work is remarkably boring - checking car numberplates and wading through the expense accounts of foreign diplomats - but Hanssen appears to have created for himself a more exciting world, part fantasy, part reality. He kept photographs of Catherine Zeta-Jones, after seeing the Welsh actress in the thriller Entrapment, along with a bottle of Stolychnya vodka and a pair of Walther PPK pistols, the guns favoured by James Bond. There is more than a touch of Walter Mitty in the letters: "I have come as close as I ever want to come to sacrificing myself . . . it's been a long time, dear friends, a long and lonely time . . . I know far better than most what minefields are laid, and the risks." Agent "B" was showing off, partly to his handlers, but mostly to himself. Perhaps that explains why he escaped detection for so long. The mercenary leaves a money trail; the true believer eventually betrays his feelings; but the clever fantasist following the path of psychological self-gratification leaves no spoor. Norman Mailer now has the intriguing task of writing a screenplay about a character who secretly penned his own script, in invisible ink, and never told another soul. comment@t... -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2756 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Sat Mar 17, 2001 11:59am Subject: Tunnel under Russian embassy intrigues Washington neighbours Tunnel under Russian embassy intrigues Washington neighbours http://www.thestar.com/apps/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=984717158315&call_page=TS_World&call_pageid=968332188854&call_pagepath=News/World Cold War nostalgia grips exclusive enclave William Walker WASHINGTON BUREAU With this report William Walker assumes his duties as The Star's Washington Bureau chief. http://www.thestar.com/images/walker_010317.jpeg WASHINGTON - For Robert Hyman and his neighbours, the obsession began last week when they heard the ultra-secretive National Security Agency (NSA) and FBI had built a tunnel through their community below the adjacent Russian Embassy. Officials now admit that 15 years ago, the FBI bought a house in Hyman's Glover Park neighbourhood, an exclusive enclave of 10,000 residents on the northern edge of Georgetown. With help from the CIA's directorate of science and technology, U.S. agents secretly dug through the house's basement, tunnelled beneath the Russian embassy and hid the removal of massive amounts of dirt before installing sophisticated listening devices. Meanwhile, former FBI agent Robert Hanssen was charged with espionage last month after allegedly trying to pick up $50,000 (U.S.) from a ``dead drop'' in a nearby Virginia park, where he had signalled the Russians that he'd planted secret government documents in return for payment. Hanssen's sordid career as an alleged ``mole,'' which is the subject of three current investigations - two American and one Russian - touching the offices of U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin, leads all the way back to the cozy confines of Glover Park. It's a story that would move spy novelist John Le Carr to envy. For Hyman and his fellow residents, it's a splash of Cold War nostalgia too delicious to stop debating. They call it Tunnel Talk. It includes safe houses, tapped telephone lines, FBI stakeout vehicles, telephoto lenses, surveillance, counter-surveillance, intelligence gathering and counter-intelligence misinformation. With the secret tunnel dug, the FBI allegedly inserted microphones in the embassy's toilets through basement plumbing. Officials say laser technology transmitted data so FBI agents could decipher movements of Russians based on their steps on the floor and sounds from the embassy building's support beams. For the U.S. government, details about the tunnel remain classified. No matter. Hyman and fellow Glover Park inhabitants just want to know one thing: where is the damn tunnel and which house was it built under? The spy tale has captured not just Glover Park, but most of Washington. The Washington Post and Washington Times newspapers are at war over the story, all five local TV stations have covered it and newspapers from Europe, including Britain's The Independent, are hot on the trail. Hyman, president of the Glover Park Citizens Association, regularly patrols the neighbourhood for illegal dumping in its picturesque wooded ravine, parking infractions, potholes in need of filling and the like. Now he has a much sexier pursuit: espionage and intrigue of the highest order. Hyman, whose wife Deb is a lobbyist on Capital Hill, is renovating the massive three-storey house the couple bought two years ago and also overseeing rental properties they own in the area. But much of his day is spent on neighbourhood rounds as association president. Spend a day with Hyman and it becomes clear how Tunnel Talk has captured everyone's imagination. It's the buzz of the dog walking park, of neighbourhood meetings, of the local watering hole and coffee shops which dot nearby Wisconsin Ave. ``People love talking about it, boy, do they love talking about it,'' Hyman says as he drives through the area, pointing out possible tunnel locations. He also points out three FBI agents on stakeout in an unmarked car. ``Don't stare at them,'' he warns. ``It's gotten to the point where I get people calling me and leaving bogus messages like `Boris this is Ivan, I'm leaving the money in the usual spot. This is not a secure line.' Then click. It's hilarious.'' Spook stories are nothing new in Glover Park. Back in 1994, Aldrich Ames, now serving time in a Pennsylvania prison, was convicted of spying after he'd marked a Glover Park mailbox as a ``dead drop'' for the Russians. Ames was a CIA employee paid by the former Soviet Union and his espionage cost the lives of several of America's top Russian sources. Now U.S. and Russian officials are taking the Hanssen case very seriously. Washington has prepared a 109-page affidavit alleging he spied on the United States for 15 years. The Russians are questioning their staff in New York and Washington to determine who leaked Hanssen's detailed espionage case file to American authorities. The file allegedly confirms Hanssen tipped off the Russians to the existence of the Glover Park tunnel. While both the FBI and the Russian embassy now refuse comment on the whole mess, there have been reports that the Russians, knowing of the tunnel's existence, fed useless information (or counter-intelligence) to the Americans through their listening devices. Serious stuff for officials, but for Glover Park residents it's more of a lark. They're accustomed to the sight of plainclothes FBI agents sitting in parked cars on their streets. They've seen the telephoto lenses peering out from third floor windows of those two strange (``safe'') houses across from the embassy, where the shades are always drawn, no mail is delivered or garbage picked up and nobody seems to come or go. ``The FBI, when they dig a tunnel under the Russian embassy, are just doing their job,'' said resident Peter Spalding, a retired U.S. State Department employee whose house backs on to the embassy grounds. ``For us, it's more like a humorous situation. Nobody knows which house the tunnel comes from, so there's a lot of speculation. But we're probably never going to find out.'' Michael Oberschneider thought he'd figured it out. For five years the graduate student and his wife have lived in a house on a dead-end street, their back door just two metres from the embassy's barbed wire fence. In his basement, Oberschneider discovered two small doors covered with old maps taped to the wall. Inside, he shines his flashlight to show two large secret rooms dug out of the ground, covered below with loose debris and rubble. ``It's just ironic to me that these two holes are hidden here and they face the embassy,'' he said as he conducted a tour. ``But maybe it's just a crawl space. Maybe the FBI is happy to have me suggesting this is the tunnel's location because they know this isn't it.'' At one point, the FBI was so proud of its tunnel that it offered tours to senior U.S. government officials with proper security clearance, the Washington Post reported. Hyman's tour has brought him to the neighbourhood dog walking park by day's end. Here the residents gather around a picnic table on a warm Washington afternoon, kids in strollers and canines chasing after one another, to talk tunnel. ``I'd love to know where it is and frankly, if I found out I'd tell everyone,'' said Susan Phillips, who is here with her dog, Watson. ``Once it's out, what can they do? ``It might make a tourist attraction,'' she said, unaware a Washington entrepreneur already offers visitors a ``spy tour,'' soon to feature Glover Park, no doubt. ``It might make a little history lesson on the Cold War for our kids.'' John Getchell, a second-generation Glover Park resident, says most neighbours are taking the tunnel in stride, ``as we do all things in this capital.'' He jokes about getting a group to pose as a road crew and become the first to dig down to it. ``I was not even vaguely surprised. People who live in houses bordering the embassy see strange things happening all the time. Some people feel that having the FBI and CIA around makes things safer. But I figure even if they saw a mugging or a robbery, they'd probably just sit there and watch. It's what they do.'' Getchell said neighbourhood animosity between Americans and Russian embassy staff has largely evaporated the decade since the fall of the old Soviet Union. Russian children now go to a neighbourhood school with Phillips' kids and the embassy lets Hyman use its facilities for fundraising events. Aside from the odd story about prodigious drinking, the Russians are now widely considered good neighbours. ``It's refreshing now that they are part of the community,'' Getchell said. ``But with this tunnel issue and the spy (Hanssen) they caught, it's like the Cold War has come full circle.'' Hyman's last stop of the day is his local watering hole. All that sleuthing has left him thirsty. But here too, Tunnel Talk is an even greater obsession than the NCAA college basketball tournament on TV. ``You smoked out that tunnel yet, Rob?'' asks Pete, the bartender. Hyman shrugs. ``My money's on you man, you'll find it.'' -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. Atkinson Phone: (978) 546-3803 Granite Island Group Fax: (978) 546-9467 127 Eastern Avenue #291 http://www.tscm.com/ Gloucester, MA 01931-8008 jmatk@t... ======================================================================= The First, The Largest, The Most Popular, and The Most Complete TSCM, Technical Security, and Counterintelligence Site on the Internet. ======================================================================= 2757 From: Ryan Huggins Date: Sat Mar 17, 2001 11:33am Subject: RE: Unknown Lamp Pole Device Hello, I have been reading this conversation, and I have one question. I have seen these boxes as well, and sometimes they do have what appear to be two circular "lenses" on the front of them (pointing towards traffic). My main concern is that I live in Westlake Village (Ventura County, CA) and about a block away is LA county. At least in our section of LA county those boxes are on every intersection (on all 4 lights), and on the 101 between Newbury Park and Oxnard (most of the time on brand new lighting structures). I can understand the Ricochet receiver concept, but we have far to many of them for that to sit well with me. Could these be some kind of LAPD/CHP observational cameras? Call me crazy, but I can see some form of computer program being used to check license plates to scan for fleeing suspects, or something of that nature. Thank you, Ryan Huggins > ________________________________________________________________________ > ________________________________________________________________________ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:59:25 -0800 > From: Dawn Star > Subject: Unknown Lamp Pole Device > > While doing a sweep in the inner city in Los Angeles yesterday, I saw the > following: > On a standard cast metal street lamp in a residential neighborhood was > mounted a white electronics package, The device was held around > the neck of > the pole (underside) with metal bands. The box was 8" long x 4" deep x 4" > wide. It was mounted by the lamp head and a black wire came out > of the box > to the lamp head for what appears to be power. The box is cream > color with > varieties of numbers printed on its case. A cell frequency > antenna with two > pigtails is hanging out of the bottom of the box. There appears to be no > lens holes but could have a pin hole. This is a side street with no > traffic. No other poles in the area had this unit. > What do you know out there? > Roger Tolces, Electronic Security, Los Angeles > > 2758 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Sun Mar 18, 2001 11:02am Subject: Re: ATV Video Signals - 3 questions At 8:44 PM +0200 3/16/01, A Grudko wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >> Here are some more ATV video signals that may be used for covert video. >Mostly AM video, but could be FM. > >Thanks James. > >I presume ATV = Amature TV, which I equate to Slow-Scan, low resolution or >Very Slow-Scan, higher resolution due to the narrow bandwith available to >Hams. Last year I found a Kenwood manufactured colour digital camera (CCD >head in a fake PIR; modulator, Kenwood VHF transceiver and PSU in the >ceiling above) operating just below the 2 Mtr band. It was commercialy >available kit set up on permanant TX. Really easy to find as the signal was >2 watts of FM and sounded almost like RTTY (any one remember that mode?). It >seemed to send one frame every 30 seconds or so. A two watt transmitter would be tough to miss, and it is amazing that any eavesdropper would be so foolish to use something that hot. >Anyway, here are my questions. > >If I punch those freqencies and modes into my Fair Mate for background >checking and it locks on, what would an ATV signal sound like ('What My Ear >Heard' - WMEH - principal) - AM or FM on the right or wrong receive mode? You would listen for the 50 or 60 Hz "growl" caused by the sync pulses primarily in a wide band AM mode with the IF bandwidth as wide as possible. >Would the WMEH change in response to radical light changes (as in 'lights >on, lights off' grasshopper). I prefer to use a photographers strobe light, or really small "disco strobe" (watch it with the jokes folks) and watch for the signal on the scope rising in time with the strobe. >Commercial broadband signals picked up as audio on FM on CS receivers are >referred to here as 'raster' - is the same term used in the US? Yes, we refer to it as a "Rasterized Signal", in fact "Raster Analysis" is the evaluation of any signal which has timing, repetitive, or sub carrier nature. -jma -- ======================================================================= Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes? "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act" - George Orwell ======================================================================= James M. 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http://burn.inhell.com 2760 From: Steve Whitehead Date: Sun Mar 18, 2001 9:07am Subject: Hidden Camera in Bathroom "Barmaid's Peeping Tom nightmare JEREMY LAWRENCE THE mother of a 20-year-old barmaid who was allegedly spied on by her housemate as she bathed said this week that her daughter's life had been wrecked since she found a camera in the ceiling. Fanie Terblanche, 28, appeared in the Strand Magistrate's Court on Friday after police alleged they had discovered recorded images of his 20-year-old housemate, Chantal Wilson, on video tapes. daughter "a nervous wreck", Gerda Wilson said this week. Terblanche is facing a charge of crimen injuria and is out on bail of R10 000 after police found a camera in the ceiling above the bath in the two-bedroomed flat in Gordon's Bay. Police allegedly confiscated five video recordings and are also investigating the possibility that the recordings had appeared on the Internet. "Chantal met [Terblanche] at the bar where she worked in Gordon's Bay last year," said Gerda Wilson, the barmaid's mother. "He said he was looking for someone to share the rent and she wanted to move out of her father's house. "At first I was against this, but she said she was only renting a room and there was nothing going on between them. They moved into a flat in July last year. A few months later they moved to another one. "When she first found out about it (the recordings) she was so emotional, she couldn't stop crying," Gerda Wilson said. She said a friend who was visiting her daughter had noticed a little hole in the ceiling above the bath. "When we looked closer we discovered that there was a video camera in the ceiling and it was linked to a computer in the other room," she said. They then reported the matter to the police. Gerda Wilson said her daughter was a nervous wreck after the incident. "She has problems sleeping and has had to go for counselling. She's scared. When she works there are policemen she knows who say things like, 'here comes the naked girl'. When she gets dropped off at home she has a special signal to show her boss that she is safe." Chantal Wilson, who has signed a deal to tell her story to a magazine, declined to speak to the Sunday Times. Terblanche, who has made three court appearances, is expected to plead at his next appearance, on April 25" Read story at http://www.suntimes.co.za/2001/03/18/news/news15.htm Steve Whitehead Managing Member TSCM Services cc Tel (012) 664-3157 Fax (012) 664-3180 International (+2712) URL http://www.tscm.co.za E-mail sceptre@m... P O Box 16063, Lyttelton, 0140, Centurion, South Africa [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 2761 From: Dawn Star Date: Mon Mar 19, 2001 0:58pm Subject: "Wedding Bells" Any one have information on this subject? TOWER, 1990, CIA, NSA: Electronic cross country subliminal programming and suggestion Targeting: Mass population, short-range intervals, long-range cumulative Frequencies: Microwave, EHF SHF Methodology: Cellular telephone system, ELF modulation Purpose: Programming through neural resonance and encoded information Effect: Neural degeneration, DNA resonance modification, psychic suppression Pseudonym: "Wedding Bells" Roger Tolces, Electronic Security, Los Angeles