Re: [TSCM-L] {5958} FBI document of TSCM - 1800 Pages of TSCM History

Did you se me on page 873?

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From: James M. Atkinson <j..._at_tscm.com>
To: tscm-..._at_googlegroups.com
Sent: Mon, December 26, 2011 2:51:34 PM
Subject: [TSCM-L] {5956} FBI document of TSCM - 1800 Pages of TSCM History

Here is a huge FBI document of TSCM (1800 pages) which track the development of the FBI's TSCM activities back in the 1950's up into the 1990's and you can see the initial failure points in their program, the constant drama with TSCM equipment, how they constantly hungered for the ultimate "magic box for TSCM" and how utterly ill equipped and ill prepared they were to perform TSCM and related service internally, and how they were missing way more then they were finding.

http://www.tscm.com/FBI-62-HQ-97308-PhoneSecurity_1952-1995.pdf

A thoughtful review shows the evolution of the program over a period of some 40+ years though these documents, and if you are well versed in TSCM related matters you can develop a pretty good understanding of how to provision your training and equipment, and procedures to overcome many of the historical problems presented in this document collection.

The bottom line, take away message, is that it is vital to obtain a very strong hands on technical background before you attempt to study TSCM, and to develop a high level of expertise with spectrum analyzers and RF analysis equipment and procedures above all else, and to become a wizards with oscilloscopes, amplifiers, EMC, EMI measurements, and of measuring super low powered RF signals that are buried deep inside the noise floor. Then, and only then, begin to study telephone technology at the raw component levels, and study not so much the software side initially, but actually focus on when the components actually do and how they are arranged first. Certainly you will need to study the software side, but not until you fully grasp heavy duty physical layer telephone analysis.

Well experienced TSCM specialists will be utterly appalled at how little time is actually spent on physical inspections , and how they rely to painfully on very limited test equipment. This is deeply unfortunate as it is very easy to make eavesdropping equipment  that wreaks havoc on TSCM efforts that rely on the equipment to do most of the work, instead of the users.

The art and craft of  TSCM business is actually the physical search, and the test equipment merely suggests where a physical inspection should take place.

In 2012 I will be posting to my website a lot of tutorials on how to trace phone wires, analysis of phones, how to map out telephones poles, what the markings on them mean, data about using spectrum analyzers and other equipment to find very covert signals, and a wealth of other information that should help to improve the overall understanding of TSCM matters.

I will also be publish a wealth of information about technical tradecraft that  people can use to counteract much of the eavesdropping that takes place in modern society, most of this is simple, but also will be quite startling to a lot of folks.

Enjoy the FBI documents.

-jma

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James M. Atkinson
President and Sr. Engineer
"Leonardo da Vinci of Bug Sweeps and Spy Hunting"
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15178662
Granite Island Group
jm..._at_tscm.com
http://www.tscm.com/
(978) 546-3803

-- 
James M. Atkinson
President and Sr. Engineer
"Leonardo da Vinci of Bug Sweeps and Spy Hunting"
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=15178662
Granite Island Group
jm..._at_tscm.com
http://www.tscm.com/
(978) 546-3803