From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Mon Mar 19, 2001 1:12pm Subject: Re: "Wedding Bells" At 10:58 AM -0800 3/19/01, Dawn Star wrote: >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 Yes... but it is now called MTV and the Comedy Channel. April Fools day is still 13 days away (cough-cough) -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. ======================================================================= 2763 From: Marcelrf Date: Mon Mar 19, 2001 1:05pm Subject: Re: "Wedding Bells" http://www.trufax.org/research/projects.html http://www.eagle-net.org/omega/omega38.htm Dawn Star wrote: > 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 > > > ======================================================== > 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 2764 From: Miguel Puchol Date: Mon Mar 19, 2001 7:31pm Subject: RV: "Wedding Bells" Following the 'trufax' link, it strikes me how much crap can be written, and how scientific or pseudo-scientific terms be used to confuse people, usually leading them into other mind-control techniques not involving: >> Bohm Superquantum-Relativistic Potential, AKA holographic infinite information continuum, AKA intelligent field that interpenetrates the universe, AKA 'God'<<....quoted right out of this site. Hmmmm...will go to sleep now, the voices are telling me! Cheers all, Mike > > -----Mensaje original----- > > De: Marcelrf [mailto:Marcelrf@B...] > > Enviado el: lunes, 19 de marzo de 2001 20:06 > > Para: Dawn Star > > CC: TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com > > Asunto: Re: [TSCM-L] "Wedding Bells" > > > > > > http://www.trufax.org/research/projects.html > > > > http://www.eagle-net.org/omega/omega38.htm > > 2765 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Mon Mar 19, 2001 8:23pm Subject: Re: RV: "Wedding Bells" At 2:31 AM +0100 3/20/01, Miguel Puchol wrote: >Following the 'trufax' link, it strikes me how much crap can be >written, and how scientific or pseudo-scientific terms be used to >confuse people, usually leading them into other mind-control >techniques not involving: > >>> Bohm Superquantum-Relativistic Potential, AKA holographic >infinite information continuum, AKA intelligent field that >interpenetrates the universe, AKA 'God'<<....quoted right out of >this site. > >Hmmmm...will go to sleep now, the voices are telling me! > >Cheers all, > >Mike Oh no, The little voices are talking to me again and telling me that I have to go home and clean the guns now. -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. ======================================================================= 2766 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Tue Mar 20, 2001 8:44am Subject: Paradoxes of the Secret World Paradoxes of the Secret World http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16011-2001Mar16.html By Vernon Loeb Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 19, 2001; 12:00 AM Combing through the government's 109-page affidavit against accused spy Robert P. Hanssen, former FBI counterintelligence analyst Paul Moore noticed that the KGB had picked a succession of drop sites and given them code names in alphabetical order. The striking pattern began in 1987 with a drop site in Ellanor C. Lawrence Park in Western Fairfax County, codenamed AN, and continued with other sites code-named BOB, CHARLIE, DORIS, ELLIS, FLO and, finally, GRACE. The sites were allegedly used by Hanssen, a veteran FBI counterintelligence agent, and his handlers to exchange classified documents and cash payments through 1991, the period covered by a KGB dossier obtained by U.S. intelligence. While the affidavit says nothing about what Hanssen may have been doing between 1991 and 1999, it notes that Hanssen's handlers ultimately proposed a dead drop, code-named LEWIS, in 2001, quoting correspondence found on Hanssen's computer after he fell under suspicion late last year. Moore believes it is only logical to assume that drop site code names beginning with H,I,J and K were used between 1991 and 1999 and thinks this alphabetical code-naming system provides the strongest clue yet that Hanssen remained an active spy during the mysterious gap in the affidavit. "Was he active during that time?" asked Moore, who now works as an instructor at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies in Alexandria. "According to the pattern--and it's a pretty definite pattern--the answer would be yes." Moore's theory about the missing alphabetical drop sites dovetails with another clue in the affidavit that suggests Hanssen remained active from 1991 to 1999: the money. In an October 1999 letter to Hanssen, according to the FBI affidavit, the Russians said that "the sum set aside for you has risen and presents now about $ 800,000." That is $500,000 more than the $ 300,000 Hanssen's KGB handlers had mentioned setting aside for him in earlier communications, when he allegedly was being paid at a rate of $ 100,000 a year in 1987, 1988 and 1989. "They're not in the habit of paying large, one-time bonuses," Moore said. But what is most remarkable about Moore's analysis is his closeness to Hanssen: the two were virtually best friends right up to the point at which Hanssen was arrested Feb. 18 minutes after leaving a plastic garbage bag stuffed with classified documents near his suburban Virginia home. Moore isn't thrilled to be further implicating his friend. "It's like[performing] an autopsy," he said. "But [counterintelligence analysis] is what I do for a living. My friend Bob would not do these things. I'm analyzing how Bob the spy did these things." "An Astonishing Tenure for a Spy" As Moore can attest, government prosecutors went out of their way to include extensive detail about Hanssen's alleged spy career in the affidavit. But they clearly reserved their highest powers of rhetorical flourish for a "proffer" filed in court earlier this month to convince a judge to keep Hanssen locked up pending trial. Calling his alleged 15-year espionage career "an astonishing tenure for a spy," the government's disdain for him is caustic and raw. "Virtually up to the moment of his arrest, he was querying the FBI's internal computer system for indicators that he was under investigation," the proffer states. "It is reasonable to assume that he was not doing this for the purpose of determining when best to surrender." The proffer describes the case against Hanssen--who intends to plead not guilty--as "overwhelming" and states: "One can scarcely imagine more incriminating evidence than Hanssen's activities of February 18, 2001: his marking of a known signal site...; his depositing...a package containing classified documents; and his final note to the Russians indicating that he now suspected he was under investigation..." Relying heavily on italic type for emphasis, the proffer goes on to allege that "there were essentially no limits as to what Hanssen was willing to do in support of his espionage activities," noting that he betrayed three Russian agents working for the United States. "In other words," the proffer says, "Hanssen was willing to sacrifice the lives of others in order to protect himself." Referring to a joking reference Hanssen once allegedly made in a letter to his handlers about ultimately working for them in Moscow as a "guest lecturer," the proffer concludes: "With $800,000 awaiting him in Moscow, and a potential lifetime in prison awaiting him in the United States--or worse--one can only imagine the alacrity with which Hanssen would seek to assume his post as 'guest lecturer.'" The Tunnel and the Law Since the story broke more than two weeks ago about Hanssen's alleged compromise of a secret eavesdropping tunnel constructed below the Soviet Embassy in Washington in the 1980s, U.S. officials have said nothing about the legal basis for such an operation. But the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 specifically authorizes electronic surveillance of foreign government installations in the United States, with approval of a secret federal court established to oversee such intelligence collection. "This category would include foreign embassies and consulates and similar'official' foreign government establishments that are located in the United States," according to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence legislative history of FISA. In seeking orders from the secret court, government officials must include in their requests "a statement of the means by which surveillance will be effected and a statement whether physical entry is required to effect the surveillance," according to the FISA, section 104a(8). Digging a tunnel beneath an embassy presumably falls under the category of "physical entry." Moscow's "Paradoxical" Bugs The latest volume of the State Department's official diplomatic history, Foreign Relations of the United States, includes a 1964 damage assessment of a Soviet "intelligence coup"--the successful bugging of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow in the 1950s and early 1960s. Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' project on government secrecy, spotted the assessment and circulated it in one of his regular "Secrecy News" bulletins last week. While microphones planted in the embassy enabled them to read "most, if not all, of our telegraphic messages," according to the State Department assessment, the impact of this capability could scarcely be detected in the way the Soviets behaved. "In order to keep us from discovering their intelligence coup the Soviets appear to have sacrificed many of the specific gains they might have made, and eschewed actions that might have given them away," the assessment states. By intercepting U.S. diplomatic communications, the assessment concludes, "Soviet leaders gained considerable advantage in their dealings with us, and, over time, they may have felt free to pursue more assertive policies because they had a clearer idea of what our reaction might be." But the Soviets seemed to have followed "a policy of self-denial of use of the information derived," the assessment notes, to protect their microphones, knowing they could provide invaluable advance warning in the event of a U.S. attack. Thus, the State Department found the effects of this major intelligence compromise "paradoxical." Indeed, the department's bottom-line conclusion highlights a central paradox of the secret world, where the advantage of acting on secret information must always be weighed against the possibility of compromising its source. © 2001 Washington Post Newsweek Interactive -- ======================================================================= 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. ======================================================================= 2767 From: Craig Snedden Date: Tue Mar 20, 2001 3:07am Subject: Re: "Wedding Bells" Do I hear Homer Simpson in there somewhere....?? Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miguel Puchol" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 1:31 AM Subject: RV: [TSCM-L] "Wedding Bells" > Following the 'trufax' link, it strikes me how much crap can be > written, and how scientific or pseudo-scientific terms be used to > confuse people, usually leading them into other mind-control > techniques not involving: > > >> Bohm Superquantum-Relativistic Potential, AKA holographic > infinite information continuum, AKA intelligent field that > interpenetrates the universe, AKA 'God'<<....quoted right out of > this site. > > Hmmmm...will go to sleep now, the voices are telling me! > > Cheers all, > > Mike > > > > > -----Mensaje original----- > > > De: Marcelrf [mailto:Marcelrf@B...] > > > Enviado el: lunes, 19 de marzo de 2001 20:06 > > > Para: Dawn Star > > > CC: TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com > > > Asunto: Re: [TSCM-L] "Wedding Bells" > > > > > > > > > http://www.trufax.org/research/projects.html > > > > > > http://www.eagle-net.org/omega/omega38.htm > > > > > > ======================================================== > 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/ The data contained herein is confidential. Unauthorised dissemination of the contents of this e-mail may be in breach of Criminal and Civil law and may lead to prosecution. 2768 From: Matthijs van der Wel Date: Tue Mar 20, 2001 6:49am Subject: EMI Thought this might be interesting. From the Cryptome website (http://cryptome.org) comes a 79 pages military handbook on EMI, dating 30 September 1988. Text file (no images): http://cryptome.org/mil-hdbk-1195.htm Zip file (1 MB): http://cryptome.org/mil-hdbk-1195.zip Abstract: MILITARY HANDBOOK: RADIO FREQUENCY SHIELDED ENCLOSURES Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) is a description of the phenomenon which results from allowing conducted and radiated electrical signals to reach destinations where their presence is undesirable. Uncontrolled EMI may cause computer malfunction or error, detonation of electrically explosive devices, or be the cause for loss of classified information to an enemy. The objective of this handbook is to provide a basic understanding of the problems associated with the acquisition of a facility containing one or more EMI shielded enclosures. It is intended that only the characteristics of the facility that are unusual in comparison to a nonshielded facility will be addressed. This handbook is a brief introduction to EMI shielding theory, and presents basic criteria of importance during the planning, design, and construction of a typical facility containing an EMI shielded enclosure. Yours sincerely, Matthijs van der Wel 2769 From: Robert G. Ferrell Date: Tue Mar 20, 2001 10:44am Subject: Re: Two Eskimos... >Ouch, ouch, ouch . . . There are (highly civilized) places in the world where this post would be grounds for divorce, and possibly even for criminal proceedings... ;-) RGF Robert G. Ferrell, CISSP Information Systems Security Officer National Business Center U. S. Dept. of the Interior Robert_G_Ferrell@n... ======================================== Who goeth without humor goeth unarmed. ======================================== 2770 From: Jay Coote Date: Tue Mar 20, 2001 0:15pm Subject: Finding Vehicle Trackers? I'd like to hear your experiences in finding and removing vehicle tracking systems. I'm aware of VHF and UHF pulsed, CW or MCW transmitters, doppler RDF sets and the 900 MHz Teletrac stuff. Are there any other trends I should be concerned about? I would think that if GPS is used, the 1540 MHz GPS antenna would have to be above the dash or rear window ledge, or diplexed in with the cellular antenna? With not much time or access to the vehicle the tracker and antenna will be under a fender, wheel-well, etc. But, with "a little more time", where would a teletrac or other tracker be hidden? The client believes that screws in the driver and passenger door panels have been turned, and there is a "new noise" under the dash. I tend to believe this client. Comments? Jay Coote Los Angeles 2771 From: Miguel Puchol Date: Tue Mar 20, 2001 1:54pm Subject: RE: Finding Vehicle Trackers? Jay, As part of our bussiness, we manufacture vehicle tracking systems, for legitimate users only (security, transport, jewlers, etc), and have some experience with this. For those who may ask, we don't even answer requests from spy-shops & the like... First of all, we now have GPS receivers, that integrate receiver and antenna into a small package (see www.sanav.com), that are capable of receiving signals through a car's metallic roof. We even had one under the copilot's seat, still getting a good fix. This means that unlike with 'normal' GPS receivers, where the antenna had to have an unrestricted view of the sky, one can now hide a receiver almost anywhere. With conventional systems, good hiding places for the antenna are plastic bumpers, under the dashboard, under the rear tray, sometimes between the lining and the plastic base. Same goes for the TX antenna, although the car's Band II FM antenna has been used in some systems. Also take off the roof lining, sometimes the devices can be attached to the metal beams inside, and if they are thin, go unnoticed. Besides this, look for emanations on the usual bands, I know where I would look here across the pond (GSM, ETACS & some VHF/UHF common bug freqs). A good physical search will do a lot of good also, between the RF and physical check you'll fish out 90% of the bugs. Passive systems, that activate only with certain events, can also be found using techniques described in posts a few days back. Hope this helps, all the best, Mike > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Jay Coote [mailto:TSCM@j...] > Enviado el: lunes, 01 de enero de 1601 1:00 > Para: TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com > Asunto: [TSCM-L] Finding Vehicle Trackers? > > > I'd like to hear your experiences in finding and removing vehicle > tracking systems. > I'm aware of VHF and UHF pulsed, CW or MCW transmitters, doppler > RDF sets and the > 900 MHz Teletrac stuff. Are there any other trends I should be > concerned about? > > I would think that if GPS is used, the 1540 MHz GPS antenna would have to > be above the dash or rear window ledge, or diplexed in with the > cellular antenna? > > With not much time or access to the vehicle the tracker and antenna will > be under a fender, wheel-well, etc. > But, with "a little more time", where would a teletrac or other > tracker be hidden? > > The client believes that screws in the driver and passenger door > panels have been > turned, and there is a "new noise" under the dash. I tend to > believe this client. > > Comments? > Jay Coote > 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/ > > > 2772 From: Miguel Puchol Date: Tue Mar 20, 2001 4:15pm Subject: RE: Finding Vehicle Trackers? Marcel, It basically sends de contents of the RMC sentence. Optionally, it can send DGPS fix data (with DGPS receiver, such as a RASANT module), EPE, and other SV data that is available from the NMEA sentences. It's just a matter of volume of information, the more you want to send out, the better you have to take care of your communications. Another option is data compression, where a position fix, vel & hdg can be sent in 8 bytes - this was done for a system via Orbcomm, where you pay-per-byte. :-) Basically, 3 sats are needed to get a fix, although not a good one. My experience is that now, with SA off, with 5 SVs you can have an error better than 10m (some 30') 95% of the time - so DGPS is not really necessary. Cheers, Mike > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Marcelrf [mailto:Marcelrf@b...] > Enviado el: martes, 20 de marzo de 2001 21:11 > Para: Miguel Puchol > CC: TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com > Asunto: Re: [TSCM-L] Finding Vehicle Trackers? > > > Miguel, > > Does your system use DGPS? How many Sats do you need for a lock. > Does the system > report "Figure of Merit"? > 2773 From: Jay Coote Date: Tue Mar 20, 2001 5:13pm Subject: Vehicle Tracker Sweep & Physical - Con't. List; Thanks for the comments on vehicle tracking equipment et al. One of the vehicles I will sweep is a 1991 Nissan NX 1600, and information on hidey-holes in that model would be appreciated. Great brains to pick on this list - thanks, Jay Coote 2774 From: Marcelrf Date: Tue Mar 20, 2001 2:11pm Subject: Re: Finding Vehicle Trackers? Miguel, Does your system use DGPS? How many Sats do you need for a lock. Does the system report "Figure of Merit"? Miguel Puchol wrote: > Jay, > > As part of our bussiness, we manufacture vehicle tracking systems, for > legitimate users only (security, transport, jewlers, etc), and have some > experience with this. For those who may ask, we don't even answer requests > from spy-shops & the like... > > First of all, we now have GPS receivers, that integrate receiver and antenna > into a small package (see www.sanav.com), that are capable of receiving > signals through a car's metallic roof. We even had one under the copilot's > seat, still getting a good fix. This means that unlike with 'normal' GPS > receivers, where the antenna had to have an unrestricted view of the sky, > one can now hide a receiver almost anywhere. > > With conventional systems, good hiding places for the antenna are plastic > bumpers, under the dashboard, under the rear tray, sometimes between the > lining and the plastic base. Same goes for the TX antenna, although the > car's Band II FM antenna has been used in some systems. Also take off the > roof lining, sometimes the devices can be attached to the metal beams > inside, and if they are thin, go unnoticed. > > Besides this, look for emanations on the usual bands, I know where I would > look here across the pond (GSM, ETACS & some VHF/UHF common bug freqs). A > good physical search will do a lot of good also, between the RF and physical > check you'll fish out 90% of the bugs. Passive systems, that activate only > with certain events, can also be found using techniques described in posts a > few days back. > > Hope this helps, all the best, > > Mike > > > -----Mensaje original----- > > De: Jay Coote [mailto:TSCM@j...] > > Enviado el: lunes, 01 de enero de 1601 1:00 > > Para: TSCM-L@yahoogroups.com > > Asunto: [TSCM-L] Finding Vehicle Trackers? > > > > > > I'd like to hear your experiences in finding and removing vehicle > > tracking systems. > > I'm aware of VHF and UHF pulsed, CW or MCW transmitters, doppler > > RDF sets and the > > 900 MHz Teletrac stuff. Are there any other trends I should be > > concerned about? > > > > I would think that if GPS is used, the 1540 MHz GPS antenna would have to > > be above the dash or rear window ledge, or diplexed in with the > > cellular antenna? > > > > With not much time or access to the vehicle the tracker and antenna will > > be under a fender, wheel-well, etc. > > But, with "a little more time", where would a teletrac or other > > tracker be hidden? > > > > The client believes that screws in the driver and passenger door > > panels have been > > turned, and there is a "new noise" under the dash. I tend to > > believe this client. > > > > Comments? > > Jay Coote > > 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/ -- "NEXTEL1 IT'S NOT JUST NEXTEL" Subscribe to Nextel1: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/NEXTEL1 2775 From: Guy Urbina Date: Tue Mar 20, 2001 6:15pm Subject: computer controlled TSCM equipment Hello list, I've been toying with this idea in my head for a couple of weeks and wanted to throw it out to you guys. I know a good portion of you all use computer controlled instrumentation in your sweeps. I want to get a feel of what you would really like to see in computer controlled instrumentation from a TSCM perspective. 1.) What instruments would you like to see have computer control that don't have it now? 2.) What improvements would you like to see in the current control interfaces that you now use? 3.) What interfaces do you prefer? (i.e. RS232, GPIB, 10BT ethernet...) The reason I'm asking is that I am very proficient in National Instrument's LABview programming language and I think it's time to design some VI's (Virtual Instruments) specifically for TSCM. It basically is a graphical language specifically made for instrumentation. It has a unique GUI with a plethora of features. You can see it at www.ni.com if you so choose. First, I want to gauge the interest level in such an endeavor. I know many of you use spectrum analyzers and OSCORS, I'm challenged to improve on those current interfaces. let me know what you all think. best regards, -Guy P.S. (don't let my domain name fool you! yes, I'm an engineer for SI, but I also perform GPS, security R&D consulting after work. :) 2776 From: Miguel Puchol Date: Wed Mar 21, 2001 2:26am Subject: RE: Vehicle Tracker Sweep & Physical - Con't. Jay, Don't know much about this model, does it have an EU equivalent? If not self-powered (own battery) you can look for abnormal wires coming out of the battery, or other susceptible places, like the fuse block, ignition key lines, etc. Good luck, Mike > -----Mensaje original----- > De: Jay Coote [mailto:TSCM@j...] > Enviado el: lunes, 01 de enero de 1601 1:00 > Para: tscm-l@yahoogroups.com > Asunto: [TSCM-L] Vehicle Tracker Sweep & Physical - Con't. > > > List; > Thanks for the comments on vehicle tracking equipment et al. > One of the vehicles I will sweep is a 1991 Nissan NX 1600, > and information on hidey-holes in that model would be appreciated. > Great brains to pick on this list - thanks, > Jay Coote > > > > ======================================================== > 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/ > > > 2777 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Wed Mar 21, 2001 7:32am Subject: Re: computer controlled TSCM equipment At 4:15 PM -0800 3/20/01, Guy Urbina wrote: >Hello list, > >I've been toying with this idea in my head for a couple of weeks and wanted >to throw it out to you guys. > >I know a good portion of you all use computer controlled instrumentation in >your sweeps. I want to get a feel of what you would really like to see in >computer controlled instrumentation from a TSCM perspective. > > >1.) What instruments would you like to see have computer control that don't >have it now? > >2.) What improvements would you like to see in the current control >interfaces that you now use? > >3.) What interfaces do you prefer? (i.e. RS232, GPIB, 10BT ethernet...) > >The reason I'm asking is that I am very proficient in National Instrument's >LABview programming language and I think it's time to design some VI's >(Virtual Instruments) specifically for TSCM. It basically is a graphical >language specifically made for instrumentation. It has a unique GUI with a >plethora of features. You can see it at www.ni.com if you so choose. > >First, I want to gauge the interest level in such an endeavor. > >I know many of you use spectrum analyzers and OSCORS, I'm challenged to >improve on those current interfaces. > >let me know what you all think. > >best regards, > >-Guy > >P.S. (don't let my domain name fool you! yes, I'm an engineer for SI, but >I also perform GPS, security R&D consulting after work. :) A very high quality computer based PORTABLE digital Xray system with sub millimeter resolution. Density of material would be displayed in color shades. All control interfaces should be either firewire and/or USB System should be able to overlay import pictures from other imaging devices (such as a thermal camera, or similar imaging devices.. Instead of offering just a flat imaging plate also offer a curved one to that when shooting things like door knobs you can get a 3D image. Allow the system to import previous X-rays and digitally subtract out "what was their last time". ...and for a second product line. A very high quality rigid bore scope 3-5 mm OD with a hard mounted CCD professional grade video camera mounted in the tip, and capabilities for an external monitor. Also, a series of digital inspection devices (camera modules) that can be attached to fiberglass poles for physical inspections. The big issue is that they have to use some very high definition color CCD cameras, AND be supply to supply their own light. ...for a third suggestion. Very high resolution thermal imaging device suitable for using viewing normal room surfaces, with resolution of 32 bits, using Stirling micro cooler is OK, as is Argon, but try to avoid if at all possible. -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. ======================================================================= 2778 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Wed Mar 21, 2001 7:58am Subject: Re: Finding Vehicle Trackers? At 1:17 PM -0500 3/20/01, Jay Coote wrote: >I'd like to hear your experiences in finding and removing vehicle >tracking systems. >I'm aware of VHF and UHF pulsed, CW or MCW transmitters, doppler RDF >sets and the >900 MHz Teletrac stuff. Are there any other trends I should be >concerned about? > >I would think that if GPS is used, the 1540 MHz GPS antenna would have to >be above the dash or rear window ledge, or diplexed in with the >cellular antenna? > >With not much time or access to the vehicle the tracker and antenna will >be under a fender, wheel-well, etc. >But, with "a little more time", where would a teletrac or other >tracker be hidden? > >The client believes that screws in the driver and passenger door >panels have been >turned, and there is a "new noise" under the dash. I tend to >believe this client. > >Comments? >Jay Coote >Los Angeles In addition to spectrum analyzers, digital voltmeters, and all of your normal TSCM equipment you will need some other additional equipment. IMHO, the most important (additional) tools you can use for a vehicle sweep is a thick blanket (to lay on), a box of heavy duty surgical gloves (to help keep your hands clean and un cut), a really strong Xeneon flashlight with 8 hours of batteries (so you can see what your doing), several small hand held mirrors, digital camera, non conductive spike, and so on. I also like to bring along an oversize reflective tarp (space blanket) to park the vehicle on, and provide me with a good ground plane. I have also found it helpful to have a large CLEAR plastic trash bag handy, and several one gallon zip lock baggies for all the little treasures you find under and behind the seats. Ideally the vehicle exterior physical inspection (under the car) will take about 90 minutes, wheel wells 15 minutes each, trunk 30-45 minutes, rear deck 15-20 minutes, head liner 10-15 minutes, support columns 10 minutes, each seating position 15-30 minutes each, and the under dash area at least an hour. The engine compartment will vary but generally takes at lest an hour. If you really hustle you can clear a vehicle in under 4 hours, but your really going to have to be moving. Personally I prefer to start underneath the vehicle on the driver side and work my way around clockwise. Then I make a second pass and inspect every thing up to the axle line, and a third pass for everything below the top of the wheel wells (and external to the vehicle). Then everything external to the vehicle up to the height of the tops of the headlights and tail light, and so on. I do not enter the vehicle until the external inspection is complete so as to keep the inspection as non-alerting as possible. As the inspection moves into the interior of the vehicle the trunk area is checked first, then the rear deck, and the backs of the rear seats. Then I move into the passenger compartment (starting with the rear seats, and migrate towards the front). Once the passengers seats have been cleared I move to the dash, and then into the engine compartments. All vehicle body cavities are checked for a second time, and anything even remotely usable an an antenna is evaluated. -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. ======================================================================= 2779 From: Steve Uhrig Date: Wed Mar 21, 2001 9:23am Subject: Complete RF sweep kit available Hello list dudes and dudettes, I have for sale some decent RF sweep gear. Anyone getting started, or needing a spare kit, would do well with this. Most seasoned TSCMers don't have an RF kit this nice. The key piece is an Avcom PSA-65B (spectrum analyzer) upgraded to 65C specs by Marty Kaiser. Unit has the following factory options: +FM demodulator +10 kc bandwidth resolution filter +AM demodulator +RFP-24 preamp (the better one) +Downconverter to extend upper range to 2.5 gigs +DC power cord +Telescoping whip antenna, 90 degrees, with BNC. +Padded carrying case with pouch +Plastic lid which protects front panel while shipping +All AVCOM manuals In addition, this unit has a number of Marty Kaiser mods to improve its effectiveness in TSCM and to allow use of certain TSCM-specific accessories: +Subcarrier detection mod +Video transmission recovery mod +Front panel aux jack for these accessories and interfacing others. Provides +12VDC for accessories so you don't have to use separate power supplies. Nice when in the field. This piece is in superb condition and probably unused when it came to me. I ran it only long enough to check all functions and verify operation against my IFR. The Avcom is more sensitive than my $15,000 IFR service monitor. (I don't use or recommend a service monitor for sweeping; it is just a lab piece I use as a reference. A service monitor is a piece of test equipment generally used for repairing two way radio equipment). This kit also includes some Kaiser accessories intended to work with the modified Avcom: +SCD-5 subcarrier receiver. This can be used standalone. Tunable to let you listen to any subcarriers riding on a primary signal. Not possible to listen without this, although you can see the subcarrier. Same unit is used to read subcarriers on power or telco lines. Can use with other receivers. +Kaiser matrix switch. Lets you switch between SCD-5 and headphones without having to plug and unplug jacks. Use when switching from carrier to subcarrier mode. Convenient and elegant. +VLF converter to let you tune from 10kc to 500 kc. You monitor, tune and view through the Avcom. Use for RF or power line subcarrier. +Miniature TV about the size of a cigar box, used as a video monitor for the video demodulator. Very nice little unit tunes VHF and UHF broadcast channels as well as AM and FM broadcast. Can be a sound source also while sweeping. +Kaiser RAS 515 Raster Analysis Display box. Connects to any oscilloscope having a Z axis input and lets you monitor any form of video transmission. Also monitors "radiation from computers". All parameters are tunable making this an extremely versatile unit. If there is anything usable for sniffing stuff radiating from computer screens, this is it. This is a *very* rare unit. Packed in a separate small Pelican case. As a side observation, if anything would be capable of intercepting radiation from computers or video screens along the lines of what Tempest tries to prevent, this is the piece. All the above is in superb condition and will be sold as a lot. If you need a complete RF kit, here it is. Good kit for a beginner or spare for a professional, and one you would not outgrow for a long time, if ever. Also a good backup set or one to leave in a particular country where you sweep a lot so you don't have to deal with the expense and hassles of carrying equipment all over the world. Fairly priced for what this is, and it is all assembled and integrated in one place. You don't have to run all over, buy a bunch of boxes and make them all work together and find the right cables and adapters. It's all here, and all done by a professional (Marty Kaiser). And no long delivery times. Can ship this package overnight if an emergency. The current cost of all this according to the respective catalogs, is $9300. I will let this set go for $7500 plus freight. I will ship anywhere in the world and can take credit cards for payment. Anyone wanting to get into sweeping would be very well equipped with this package. The work is already done in selecting the appropriate and compatible equipment, and you are buying from a known and experienced sweeper, not a spy shop or an unknown somewhere. See the above at the following websites: http://www.avcomofva.com http://www.martykaiser.com See my used equipment page for more TSCM, surveillance, commo and electronic gear: http://www.swssec.com/used.html Also Minox submini "spy" cameras at: http://www.swssec.com/minox.html Questions certainly welcome. Regards ... 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" ******************************************************************* 2780 From: Rob Muessel Date: Wed Mar 21, 2001 3:06pm Subject: Something from the Archives I thought that the members of the list might like to take a look at a news report of the bugging of a sales meeting in 1941. It's on my website. http://tscmtech.com/Hints_sugestions.htm Click on the pdf file. -- Rob Muessel, Director email: rmuessel@t... TSCM Technical Services Phone: 203-354-9040 11 Bayberry Lane Fax: 203-354-9041 Norwalk, CT 06851 USA 2781 From: Charles Patterson Date: Wed Mar 21, 2001 7:41pm Subject: AR3000a software Can someone recommend good software to be used with the AR3000a receiver? I've been looking at a couple of demos but would like to know if anyone has found one particularly useful for our work. thanks charles Charles Patterson charles@t... Global Communications Tarrytown, NY www.telephonesecurity.com www.avtele.com 2782 From: Date: Wed Mar 21, 2001 5:16pm Subject: U.S. expelling nearly 50 Russian officials U.S. expelling nearly 50 Russian officials By Tabassum Zakaria WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - The United States is expelling about 50 Russian diplomats suspected of being intelligence officers, partly in retaliation for the case of FBI agent Robert Hanssen accused of spying for Moscow over 15 years, a U.S. official said on Wednesday. It would be the biggest expulsion of suspected spies since "Operation Famish" in 1986 when President Ronald Reagan ordered 80 Soviet diplomats out of the country. The United States on Wednesday declared about six Russian officials persona non grata for alleged spying activities, which usually means they must leave the country immediately, the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. That group, which included two Russians who had already left the United States, was being expelled in retaliation for Hanssen who was arrested Feb. 18 and accused of selling secrets to Moscow for $1.4 million in money and diamonds. The United States also is asking about 40 other Russian officials suspected of being intelligence officers to leave in response to concerns that Russia has had too many spies in the United States for some time, the official said. The United States suspects Russia has hundreds of intelligence officers operating in this country. CBS News, which first reported the expulsions, said no deadline had been set for the Russians to leave and some could remain in this country for a few more months. Secretary of State Colin Powell summoned the Russian ambassador on Wednesday to notify him of the expulsions, CBS said. "We have nothing to say on this topic," State Department spokesman Philip Reeker said. "I cannot confirm if the report is accurate or inaccurate," a White House spokeswoman said. A CIA spokesman would not comment. There was no immediate comment from the Russian Embassy, and Russian Foreign Ministry officials in Moscow were not available for comment in the middle of the night there. Hanssen was arrested after allegedly leaving classified material in a garbage bag at a drop site in a suburban Virginia park. The FBI waited to see who would pick it up, but no one ever did. Hanssen, who plans to plead not guilty, is accused of selling secrets including names of double agents and U.S. electronic surveillance methods. U.S. officials say the revelations severely damaged national security. The former FBI agent is suspected of compromising an eavesdropping tunnel dug by U.S. authorities under the Russian embassy in Washington, some officials have said. While the Cold War ended a decade ago, espionage activities by the United States and Russia against each other have not ceased. The U.S. government has been trying to get Russia to lower the number of intelligence officers operating in the United States for some time, but the requests have generally been ignored, U.S. officials said. In the last public expulsions involving the two countries, the United States in December 1999 expelled a Russian diplomat, Stanislav Gusev, after he was caught outside the State Department allegedly monitoring a listening device hidden in a conference room inside the building. Russia responded shortly afterward by expelling a U.S. diplomat, Cheri Leberknight, saying she was caught red-handed with an array of spy gadgets. 22:05 03-21-01 2783 From: A Grudko Date: Thu Mar 22, 2001 6:12am Subject: Re: computer controlled TSCM equipment ----- Original Message ----- > At 4:15 PM -0800 3/20/01, Guy Urbina wrote: > >I know a good portion of you all use computer controlled instrumentation in > >your sweeps. I want to get a feel of what you would really like to see in > >computer controlled instrumentation from a TSCM perspective. > >1.) What instruments would you like to see have computer control that don't > >have it now? There is a great deal of RF detection equipment, but telephone lines, especially analogue lines, can take a great deal of careful measuring and physical searching to be fairly confident that a line is 'clean' - in fact my standard report points out that we don't think an external line can ever be declared 100% 'clean'. My 'perfect' Telephone Line Analyser would combine: TDR On and off hook DC voltage: 0 - 99 to 3 decimal places On and off hook current in milliamps: 0 - 99 to 2 decimal places Capacitance (manual - would require disconnection at exchange) Optional DTMF tone sequencer - 16 to the power of 4 typical (@ 10 pulses per sec. would need 109 minutes - ouch) Audio sweep: sine wave 50 Hz - 40 KHz. A square wave/sawtooth generator might would be faster (richer in harmonics) but less reliable Pulse/DTMF (Including A-D control tones) dialling Hi/Mid/Low impedance audio coupling Self test/calibration A standard test sequence Data base of line/equipment/instrument/accessory electronic characteristics ('signatures') Intelligent interrogation of electronic characteristics with recommendations Full memory of previous tests Common OS/software reporting such as Excel On the hardware side: 3.5" disc writer Selectable Multi cable combining 120/240 Mains/battery/external DC power High impedance coupling socket to TSCM RX. Sturdy all weather design (may be used in the field for pole/distribution box checks) Multi-standard plugs/sockets/adaptors 7 mtr cable extensions (you don't want to take this baby UP the phone pole. Digitals? - we just search very carefully. So come on guys, what have I missed on the perfect TLA? Andy Grudko. D.P.M., Grad I.S, (S.A.) CEO - Grudko Wilson Associates (SA) (Pty) Ltd - Crime investigation & intelligence Johannesburg - Cape Town - Durban - Pretoria - UK - US - Canada - Australia - Israel - Bosnia. Agents in 41 countries - www.grudko.com - (+27 11) 465 9673 - 465 1487 (Fax) - Est. 1981 GIN (Charter), SACI (Pres), WAD, CALI, SASFed, SASA, SAMLF, SCIP (Past SA Chairman), UKPIN, AFIO (OS), IWWA, PRETrust, IPA, AmChamCom "When you need it done right - first time" 2784 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Thu Mar 22, 2001 10:09am Subject: Re: computer controlled TSCM equipment Andy, You have a good point, so let's bounce it around the list for discussion. At 2:12 PM +0200 3/22/01, A Grudko wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >> At 4:15 PM -0800 3/20/01, Guy Urbina wrote: >> >I know a good portion of you all use computer controlled instrumentation >in >> >your sweeps. I want to get a feel of what you would really like to see in >> >computer controlled instrumentation from a TSCM perspective. >> >1.) What instruments would you like to see have computer control that >don't >> >have it now? > >There is a great deal of RF detection equipment, but telephone lines, >especially analogue lines, can take a great deal of careful measuring and >physical searching to be fairly confident that a line is 'clean' - in fact >my standard report points out that we don't think an external line can ever >be declared 100% 'clean'. It's not just telephone lines, but also; power lines, Cable TV, alarm lines, and so on.... More specifically you should consider these to be "Conducted Signal Paths" , and each of them must be checked in detail for any threats. Conducted Signal Paths are a really serious eavesdropping threat, and the phone lines are just one vulnerability. >My 'perfect' Telephone Line Analyser would combine: > >TDR The TDR needs to be able to "shoot" two or more pair at time, with a four pair being ideal. >On and off hook DC voltage: 0 - 99 to 3 decimal places Good >On and off hook current in milliamps: 0 - 99 to 2 decimal places Also good >Capacitance (manual - would require disconnection at exchange) You also need a Giga-ohm insulation test >Optional DTMF tone sequencer - 16 to the power of 4 typical (@ 10 pulses >per sec. would need 109 minutes - ouch) Maybe, but instead of trying to trigger the device why not just hunt for the intrusion and related impact on the lines electronic signature. >Audio sweep: sine wave 50 Hz - 40 KHz. A square wave/sawtooth generator >might would be faster (richer in harmonics) but less reliable The audio needs to be extremely stable, and as spectrally pure as possible. The user should be able to spin a knob to adjust the frequency, but also be able to punch it in on a keyboard. Resolution should be to two decimal places. Upper coverage should be to 500 kHz, and should have the ability to phase lock with the line frequency, and have the ability to delay or decay a tone bursts to certain positions on the line freq. >Pulse/DTMF (Including A-D control tones) dialling DTMF and MF tones as well, plus all of the industry standard test tone sequences and signalling. (this works out to be about 64 tone combinations, with 4-5 timing variations each). >Hi/Mid/Low impedance audio coupling Hmmm.... this is a tough one.... How about adding two different adjustable inputs as well? One for impedances below 900 ohms, the second 900-3000 ohms, and the rest fixed impedances . But what about coupling into the AC mains? they generally run 10-20 ohms, while the phone lines are much higher? >Self test/calibration With the capability to print a hard copy report (on a real printer, not one of those crappy little adding machine tapes). >A standard test sequence An AUTOMATED sequence for testing where you connect the leads, push the bottom, and read the hardcopy report for interpretation. >Data base of line/equipment/instrument/accessory electronic characteristics >('signatures') This is a VERY dangerous thing to do, instead have the instrument flag :"anomalies" and let the TSCM'er decide if they are hostile or not. >Intelligent interrogation of electronic characteristics with recommendations ... be still my beating heart ... >Full memory of previous tests Yes, but with the ability to compensate for environmental variations (temp, humidity, and barometric pressure). and the instrument should have a sensor for these built into the test set, and should be able to automatically compensate, or allow the user to plug their own numbers in. >Common OS/software reporting such as Excel Agree'd, and I would lean towards a simple SLYK or CSV format. >On the hardware side: >3.5" disc writer Nope... give the instrument a USB port as the control that way you can control it with a laptop. One of the big problems with the OSCOR, Scanlock, and other similar products is the way the build in controller limits the functions and thus prohibits development of controlling software and/or functions to make the unit more helpful.... just present a USB port and give the user a library of drivers so they can make it dance. For the non-technical folks they can offer a turn-key piece of software instead of a library. >Selectable Multi cable combining Please explain >120/240 Mains/battery/external DC power Agreed, and let's give it enough battery to carry it though a 12 hour day. ... and please, please, please STOP using Gell batteries in TSCM gear as they do some really ugly things to other equipment that contain NiCad cells. Instead develop the batteries to be NiMH, or Lithium Ion with a fast charge function. Also, make the power pack removable... and allow them to be recharged independent of the instrument. >High impedance coupling socket to TSCM RX. Yes, but add a transient limiter and band rejection filters to keep the unit from saturating other instruments (ie: feed the power lines into the input of a spectrum analyzer) >Sturdy all weather design (may be used in the field for pole/distribution >box checks) A small Pelican case is good (something about 13*21*9 or so) >Multi-standard plugs/sockets/adaptors Should be usable anywhere in the world without having to cobble together special cords. >7 mtr cable extensions (you don't want to take this baby UP the phone pole. Good point, but at times you may not have a choice Ah, how about this... give the system a removable (and intelligent) line adapter that can be attached right at the access point, and that can be controlled at a distance. ...or to take it one step further allow the remote to be controlled from down the line being tested. >Digitals? - we just search very carefully. The digital signal was to travel in the analog domain, and as such it provides us with a series of analog signals we can measure. Also, the unit must be able to split out the timing for any digital signal and allow examination of each channel (or at least have a jack for an external datacom instrument) >So come on guys, what have I missed on the perfect TLA? Sadly, there is minimal demand for them, plus doing phone line and power line tests are not sexy so many TSCM'ers skip them or do only a token check. >Andy Grudko. D.P.M., Grad I.S, (S.A.) [snip] -- ======================================================================= 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. ======================================================================= 2785 From: Craig Snedden Date: Thu Mar 22, 2001 9:24am Subject: Re: computer controlled TSCM equipment ----- Original Message ----- From: "A Grudko" To: Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [TSCM-L] computer controlled TSCM equipment > > So come on guys, what have I missed on the perfect TLA? > A nice cheap price and someone to work it for you while you rake in the dough! :-) Craig The data contained herein is confidential. Unauthorised dissemination of the contents of this e-mail may be in breach of Criminal and Civil law and may lead to prosecution. 2786 From: Robert G. Ferrell Date: Thu Mar 22, 2001 11:26am Subject: Re: computer controlled TSCM equipment >>> >your sweeps. I want to get a feel of what you would really like to see in >>> >computer controlled instrumentation from a TSCM perspective. As an aside to this thread, let me state that I'm a pretty decent control systems programmer; if anyone has serious plans to produce such an automated computer-controlled tool, I'd be happy to help with control and user interface development. Cheers, RGF Robert G. Ferrell, CISSP Information Systems Security Officer National Business Center U. S. Dept. of the Interior Robert_G_Ferrell@n... ======================================== Who goeth without humor goeth unarmed. ======================================== 2787 From: A Grudko Date: Thu Mar 22, 2001 1:10pm Subject: Re: computer controlled TSCM equipment ----- Original Message ----- From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng > > >Selectable Multi cable combining > Please explain Just about every 'phone we encounter these days uses 2 wires. Wax on, wax off; data in, data off. So why are there 4 conductors? A decade (or was it millenium) ago many local PBX (Private Branch Exchange) extensions/lines used 4 - 16 (really old mechanical pushbutton phones - like 20 years back!!) cables to connect to the PABX (Private Automatic Branch Exchange) or line. Don't laugh, but when I arrived in Africa in 1979 we still had many manual exchanges operated by 2 pin 8mm plugs hand pluged by an operator with a headset linking calls locally and to the outside world. We even had a TV soap opera, based on the goossipy interception of calls, called 'Nommer Assebleif' (apologies for local spelling errors) meaning 'Number Please'. In my early '80's TLAs we built in two 10 way wafer switches and a heck of a lot of croc clip terminated cables. Seriesed in were 1.5 v and 9 v switchable supplies with reversable polarity (to drive EC Mikes). Testing all combinations of 5 pairs called for 10 x 10 x 3 (300) manual cable tests. Clients bitched that we were wasting time (their money...). Even today, most phones have 4 pin connectors, but only use 2. Why? Spares just in case. What more could a spy ask for. Sidetone. Sidetone? Every phone - even digital - has sidetone - it's that squirt of your mike audio that joins the other person's audio at the earpiece and makes the handset earpiece sound 'natural'. So the earpierce carries both sides of the conversation. The buggist plucks this up at the PCB connector in the instrument and sends it down the 2 unused cables that the manufacturer has kindly supplied as 'spares'. From there the buggist's imagination rules as to how he gets the audio out of the building. Andy Grudko. D.P.M., Grad I.S, (S.A.) CEO - Grudko Wilson Associates (SA) (Pty) Ltd - Crime investigation & intelligence Johannesburg - Cape Town - Durban - Pretoria - UK - US - Canada - Australia - Israel - Bosnia. Agents in 41 countries - www.grudko.com - (+27 11) 465 9673 - 465 1487 (Fax) - Est. 1981 GIN (Charter), SACI (Pres), WAD, CALI, SASFed, SASA, SAMLF, SCIP (Past SA Chairman), UKPIN, AFIO (OS), IWWA, PRETrust, IPA, AmChamCom "When you need it done right - first time" 2788 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Thu Mar 22, 2001 2:20pm Subject: Pet Medication Instructions CAT: 1) Pick cat up and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As the cat opens mouth pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow. 2) Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process. 3) Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away. 4) Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten. 5) Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse in from garden. 6) Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth. Drop pill down ruler and vigorously rub cat's throat. 7) Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill from foil wrap. Make a note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep shattered figurines and vases from hearth and set to one side for gluing later. 8) Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with pencil and blow down drinking straw. 9) Check label to make sure pill is not harmful to humans, drink 1 beer to take taste away. Apply Band-Aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap. 10) Retrieve cat from neighbor's shed. Get another pill. Open another beer. Place cat in cupboard and close door onto neck to leave head showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with elastic band. 11) Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on hinges. Drink beer. Fetch bottle of scotch. Pour shot, drink. Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of your last tetanus shot. Apply whiskey compress to cheek to disinfect. Toss back another shot. Throw tee-shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom. 12) Call the Fire Department to retrieve the friggin' cat from tree across the street. Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil wrap. 13) Tie the little bastard's front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining room table. Find and put on heavy duty pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth followed by large piece of fillet steak. Be rough about it. Hold head vertically and pour 2 pints of water down throat to wash pill down. 14) Consume remainder of Scotch. Get spouse to drive you to the emergency room, sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and removes pill remnants from right eye. Call furniture shop on way home to order new table. 15) Arrange for Humane Society to collect mutant cat from hell and call local pet shop to see if they have any hamsters. DOG: 1) Wrap pill in bacon, cheese or peanut butter. Make him beg. -- ======================================================================= 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. ======================================================================= 2789 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Thu Mar 22, 2001 8:03pm Subject: Why the Spy Bosses Don't Always Like Spy Purges Why the Spy Bosses Don't Always Like Spy Purges http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,103455,00.html >From Moscow and Washington, TIME's correspondents explain the latest espionage tit-for-tat BY TONY KARON TIME.com: Presumably the U.S. expulsion of diplomats accused of spying is retaliation for FBI counterintelligence officer Robert Hanssen, who turned out to be a double agent? Elaine Shannon in Washington: The U.S. certainly had to do something about Hanssen's handlers. From a public relations point of view, they had to make clear that we know who you are and this sort of thing won't be tolerated. Beyond Hanssen, though, getting rid of a larger number of Russian agents solves a different kind of problem. The FBI is under severe budget constraints. They have to maintain their number of agents at current levels or even reduce them through attrition. Their resources for surveillance are shrinking. So if you reduce the number of agents who have to be watched, you manage your resources better. An SVR [the Russian counterpart to the CIA] agent may meet an asset or make a dead drop only once every 90 days or so. But you have to watch him all the time, because if you miss him on the 90th day, which happens to have been a Sunday night, you could miss a year's work. So if you're seriously watching someone, you have to have three people on the job, in rotating shifts. Expelling a large number of agents reduces the workload, and better manages the budget. President Bush, of course, also has domestic and geopolitical motives for making a statement that we're not warm and fuzzy with the Russians. It's the most dramatic move against the Russian community in Washington since President Reagan's mass expulsion in the early 1980s. President Bush is the most conservative president since Reagan; he's more conservative than his father. So he may also be out to reassure conservatives that the Bush administration doesn't view Russia as simply another European nation. TIME.com: What's the response in Moscow? Andrew Meier in Moscow: Moscow has responded by promising a tit-for-tat expulsion. Government officials characterized the U.S. decision as a "Cold War" move. Unofficially, though, I spoke to a couple of people in the intelligence community here, who said President Bush was living in a time warp. This hasn't been done since President Reagan did it in the 1980s, and it's being perceived as a crude slap in Russia's face, motivated by the need for damage control over the Hanssen case. Russians are particularly skeptical of the numbers. Some reports are saying that up to 50 officials will be sent home on charges of spying. There's some doubt here over whether that number could seriously have been suspected of espionage ­ Moscow sees this as hype and grandstanding. The Russians see this as overreaching, and a dangerous early taint on the relation between the two countries. They see it as in keeping with some remarkably hostile comments on Russia recently by senior U.S. officials such as Defense Secretary Rumsfeld. Of course what you have to realize here is that whether in Washington or Moscow, decisions to expel the other side's spies come from the politicians, not the intelligence community. Because when you kick out spies en masse, you have to start from scratch again, in identifying the spies sent to replace those expelled. And if you've managed to recruit any spies on the other side, it's certainly not in your interests to send them home. But if you're doing a mass expulsion, you can't exempt your double agents, for fear of exposing them. So it's unlikely that the intelligence community in Washington chose the expulsion option. It's seen as more of a political move. -- ======================================================================= 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. ======================================================================= 2790 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Thu Mar 22, 2001 8:35pm Subject: Another Russian "Mole" in U.S. Government Suspected [Moderators Note: There are at least TWO more moles inside the FBI's counterintelligence program... let me repeat TWO moles (they probably be in either DC, NY, and LA). The Soviets have (at least over the past two decades) always applied at least three independent moles into any program that they are interested in. Hanssen may (or may not) have been the first, and may (or may not) have been the most senior, but he is by no means the only one... watch for the sparks to fly again. -jma ] Another Russian "Mole" in U.S. Government Suspected http://www.russiatoday.com/news.php3?id=318171§ion=default WASHINGTON, Mar 22, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) U.S. intelligence suspects that another Russian "mole" is burrowed within the U.S. government despite last month's arrest of FBI counter-intelligence official Robert Hanssen, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday. Representative Porter Goss, a Republican from Florida, hailed a U.S. decision to send home 50 Russian diplomats, telling reporters the action should be seen as a response to a "an extraordinary, geometric increase" in Russian espionage that had gotten out of hand under the Clinton administration. "This last round is a line in the sand," Goss told reporters at a breakfast here. "The headline today as far as I'm concerned is (Secretary of State) Colin Powell saying, 'Different person, different administration, new line in the sand, clean it up or get out," he told defense reporters at a breakfast here. The action was believed to have been triggered by the discovery of an alleged Russian mole in the FBI, Hanssen, a 25-year agency counter-intelligence veteran who was arrested last month on charges of betraying a wealth of U.S. secrets to Moscow over a 15-year period. Goss, however, said the Central Intelligence Agency, which had been on a mole hunt since the 1994 arrest of CIA official Aldrich Ames on espionage charges, believes another double agent is operating inside the U.S. government besides Hanssen. "I think Hanssen obviously fits a large part of the matrix that was the riddle, but I don't think the matrix is completely solved," he said. Asked whether there was evidence of a third mole, Goss said, "Yes. There are some things that are loose that are hard to explain." Goss, himself a former CIA officer, cautioned reporters against reading the action against Russian diplomats as purely a retaliation for Hanssen, portraying it instead as a long overdue crackdown on Russian espionage activities in the United States. He laid part of the blame on what he said was a breakdown in "security culture" under the previous Democratic administration, citing the disappearance of a laptop with classified materials at the State Department, a bugged chair rail in a State Department conference room, and other recent intelligence embarrassments as symptoms of the problem. But he also attributed the rise to a combination of Russian "paranoia" about U.S. intentions and a reassertion of Russia's view of itself as a world power under Russian President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer. The targets of Russian espionage appeared to be focused on acquiring information about U.S. plans and intentions, equipment design and new technologies, rather than covert operations aimed at shaping U.S. public opinion, he said. "I can't tell you how bad the paranoia is over there still," said Goss. "Remember Putin is back, the KGB is back under a new name, new initials. This is the way it is working. That clique of people are dealing the way that clique used to deal." Russian espionage activity began to expand before Putin came to power as factions within the former KGB scrambled to survive by showing their new masters what they were capable of producing, he said. "After Putin came in, I think there was a green light to go ahead because 'these are my guys.' So I think you had two separate motivations that have led to escalation, that are somewhat circumstantial," he said. He said Thursday's move signaled a shift in policy toward Russia by the new administration. "I think you are going to see a much tougher policy on Russia -- not threatening, tougher," he said. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse) -- ======================================================================= 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. ======================================================================= 2791 From: James M. Atkinson, Comm-Eng Date: Thu Mar 22, 2001 8:40pm Subject: 'Shower spy camera' doctor let off 'Shower spy camera' doctor let off http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=373297 A London doctor who was arrested after allegedly putting a spy camera in a shampoo bottle to video nurses showering will not face criminal charges. Dr Michael Shiew, 27, formally resigned as a junior doctor at St George's hospital, Tooting, this month after police found what they said was a spy camera set up to beam pictures to a video recorder in a bedroom at Brighton General Hospital, where he was on a training course. A confiscated video cassette did not show anybody using the shower block. A six-week investigation yielded insufficient evidence to charge him, the Crown Prosecution Service says. The General Medical Council has said it may look at the case if Dr Shiew's alleged actions breached its disciplinary procedures. -- ======================================================================= 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. =======================================================================