From: Renegade <renegade@texoma.net>
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 17:08:24 -0800 (PST)
To: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: Spy News
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None of them were even known, much less found, until Ronald Pelton starting
pointing them out to the russkies on a world map.

At 09:45 AM 11/08/1998 -0500, John Young wrote:
>NYT reports today on a new book, "Blind Man's Bluff,"
>which reports on the US's success at placing surveillance 
>devices on Soviet subsea communications cables around 
>the world. With much technical detail about how it was 
>done, beginning with the simple but overlooked idea of 
>locating shoreline warning signs about undersea cables 
>then tracking from there.
>
>The devices, some up to 20 feet long for housing elaborate 
>processing equipment, captured electronic emanations, thereby 
>eluding detection measures aimed at physical taps. One was 
>found by the Soviets but  most were not and much information 
>on the program is still classified.
>
>AT&T and Bell labs built many of them. The US Navy will not 
>comment on the book, citing national security restrictions.


-Renegade