TELEPHONE LISTENING-IN DEVICES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP72-00310R000100240001-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 18
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 2002
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: August 4, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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4 August 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Logistics Services Division, OL
SUBJECT Telephone~Listening~in Devices
REFERENCE Memo dtd 3 Nov 61 to Legislative Counsel
f r D/L , same subject
l~. Listed below is an update of the figures contained in
referenced memorandum.
a. Transmitter cutoff switches
(1) On Agency switchboard
(2) On non-published lines
(3) On DOD lines
Number Annual Cost
315 / $1660.80
86 342.60
14 / ,45.00
415 - 2,x4$.40
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b.
Listening~in circuits
(1)
On
Agency switchboard
none
-0-
(2)
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non-published llnes
none
~0-
(3)
On-
DOD lines
none
~0-
c. Recor
(1)
der
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connectors
Agency switchboard
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(2)
On
non-published lines
none
~0-
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On
DOD lines
none
-_0-_
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432
891.60
2,940.00
STATI NTL
beputy Chief, Telephone, Facilities Branch, LSD/OL
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE~AGENCY ~ '~~
WASHINGTON, D:~. 20505
The Honorable John E. Moss
Chairman
Foreign Operations and Government
Information Subcommittee
Committee on Government Operations
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 2p515
Your letter of July _29, 1970, requests information to
aid your Subcommittee in bxinging up to date along-standing
study and survey of the telephone monitoring practices of
Federal departments and agencies. Our response will be
keyed to the numbered paragraphs in your letter.
1. The Agency does not prohibit the monitoring
of telephone calls. Such monitoring is generally by
secretaries for the purpose of taking notes to record
names, addresses, dates, figures, requests for in-
formation, or where files or other memoranda may
be required for use in follow up `on the call. Moni-
toring occurs in other instances where an assistant
or other member of an office is being read into a
problem or activity for which he may have future
responsibility. Notification may be, 'but is not
invariably, given when notes are being-taken.
2. The Agency currently has 329 transmitter
cut-off switches on telephones assigned to it in the
Washington area. The annual cost is $l, 705. 80.
The Agency has no listening-in circuits.
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3. The Agency has J.~'recorder connectors at
an annual cost of $~~1.~0. These recording devices
are equipped with 't e beeper warning signal to notify
the other party that the call is being recorded by the
devices:
4. The number of telephone recording devices
wired into'aelephone circuits is as given in 3~ above--
~$,a~: The Agency has not procured or issued any
induction-type attachments for dictation machines
or any other=Types of instruments which can be used
to monitor or`.recard telephone conversations.
5. The costs for the devices used by the Agency
are set forth above, for a total of $', G?''
'~.~ ~po ~a ~ % ~
6. The Agency-does not have any rules or regula-
tions governing telephone monitoring and recording.
Sincerely,
John M. Ma ry
Legisl tiv C ns el
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