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OUR FRIENDLY PHONE COMPANY.... one example of eavesdropping that touches a vast number of Americans was related to the Subcommitee by Joseph Beirne, President of the Communications Workers of America. He revealed that the phone company does not limit its invasions of privacy to assisting the FBI an other goverment tappers. He pointed out that "as part of its training program, and as part of its continuing close supervision of its employees, the telephone industry has developed equipmnt for monitoring its operators, its service assistantst its commercial office employees-in short, all of its employees who deal with the customer. Such monitoring means, of course, that the customer is, in effect, monitored at the same time." "An alert snooper is sometimes able to obtain the information he needs simply by calling the telephone office and posing as a telephone repairman. Or, if the tapper is a law-enforcement officer, her may be able to secure the outright cooperation of the telephone company in the placing of his tabs. In Kansas City, the existence of just such an arrangement between the telephone company and the chief of police was revealed." The above two quotes were made by Senator Edward V. Long. In the office we call it "The Systen", and use of the word "the" means dogmatic finality. The wall comes up pretty fast when you start tampering with the way things are done within The System, and you either slow down and do things Bell's way or knock your brains out. - AT&T junior executive, spring, 1967

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