EXPLODING THE PHONE

Abstract

News release with cover memo regarding Michigan Bell's participation in Greenstar. Cover memo is from J.H. Shuler, VP and General Counsel. News release notes that a Greenstar monitoring unit was installed in Detroit "for less than two years" from 1965-1967.

Keywords

Greenstar; Blue Box; Michigan Bell

Notes / See Also

toll fraud; Michigan Bell Telephone Co. (MB); J. H. Shuler (VP, MB); Pic Wagner (PR Mgr., MB); Detroit; wiretapping

Abstract

Testimony of H. W. William Caming, attorney, General Departments, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, and John E. Mack, Director, switching administration and maintenance systems Center, Bell Telephone Laboratories, and Earl Connor, Staff Supervisor, Security, Chesapeake and Potomac telephone company, regarding the Greenstar toll fraud surveillance system.

Keywords

H. W. William Caming; John E. Mack; Earl Connor; Greenstar; blue box

Notes / See Also

Includes appendix with: speech given by Zane Barnes, president, Southwestern Bell on wiretapping; C&P Telephone pamphlet on secrecy of communications; copy of St. Louis Post Dispatch article on Greenstar; copy of Washington Post article on Greenstar and AT&T security; and a transcript of a television interview with Caming

Abstract

Black-and-white photograph of blue box from Project Greenstar. Box is identified as the "New York box". Back of photo notes engineer as W. Bennett.

Keywords

blue boxes; Project Greenstar; W. Bennett; Bell Labs file 39865

Abstract

black-and-white photograph from Project Greenstar showing blue boxes from New York and Los Angeles. Photo shows two very serious looking gentleman from AT&T identified as R. Kennedy and W. Herlihy. Author of document is W. R. Bennett

Keywords

blue box; Project Greenstar; New York; Los Angeles; W.R. Bennandett; R. Kennedy; W. Herlihy

Abstract

black-and-white photograph of blue box from Project Greenstar. Box is identified as the "New York box". Pack a photo identifies engineer as W. Bennett.

Keywords

Blue box; Project Greenstar; W. Bennett

Abstract

Black-and-white photograph of blue box from Project Greenstar. Box identified as the "New York box". Macro photo identifies engineer as W. Bennett.

Keywords

Blue box; Project Greenstar; W. Bennett; Bell Labs case 39865

Abstract

Testimony of H. W. William Caming regarding privacy of communications and combating the theft of telephone service. Pp. 485-486 contain a detailed description of Project Greenstar ("toll trunk test units").

Keywords

Project Greenstar; H. W. William Caming; blue box

Abstract

Memo from W. P. Mullane, Jr. and Joseph F. Doherty to all Bell System news contact personnel and security managers, with instructions for use externally and distribution internally, With attached statement from John D. deButts Regarding toll fraud countermeasures and AT&T's warrantless wiretapping. Statement outlines the extent of electronic toll fraud, the methods used to prevent it, the unlikelyhood of having a call recorded, and notes that the methods used in the past were legal and have been discontinued. Includes statistics.

Keywords

John D. deButts (Chairman, ATT); W.P. Mullane, Jr.; Joseph F. Doherty; blue box; greenstar; electronic toll fraud; New York City; Los Angeles; Miami; Newark; Detroit, MI; St. Louis, MO

Abstract

H.W. William Caming interviewed o nthe today Show regarding AT&T's toll fraud surveillance system.

Keywords

H. W. William Caming; American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T); wiretapping; New York; Los Angeles; Detriot; St. Louis; Miami; Newark, NJ; blue box; black box; Greenstar; Today Show

Notes / See Also

Includes some great quotes.

Abstract

Chairman Robert K. Kastenmeier announced yesterday his House Civil Liberties subcommittee will hold hearings next Tuesday on allegations of Bell system monitoring of private telephone calls.

Keywords

eavesdropping; H. W. William Caming; Earl Conner; Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co.; wiretapping; Robert K. Kastenmeier; Greenstar

Abstract

AP wire story on Greenstar Congressional hearings.

Keywords

H. W. William Caming; wiretapping; American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T); Detroit; Los Angeles; New York; Newark, NJ; Miami; St. Louis; blue box; black box

Abstract

AP wire story on Greenstar Congressional hearings.

Keywords

William P. Mullane, Jr.; American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T); H. W. William Caming; Los Angeles; New York; Newark, NJ; St. Louis; Detroit; Miami; wiretapping; Robert F. Drinan (D-Mass); Robert W. Kastenmeier (D-Wis)

Notes / See Also

Archive sheet notes that this article also appeared in the Jackson Patriot, the Ann Arbor News and the Midland Daily News.

Abstract

Memo from Dennis Mollura to all Bell system news contact personnel transmitting a summary and complete transcript of H. W. William Caming's statement before the House Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice on February 18, 1975.

Keywords

Dennis Mollura; H. W. William Caming; Greenstar

Notes / See Also

Contains a one page cover letter, a three page summary of the testimony, and an 11 page transcript of the testimony.

Abstract

Statement by Kenneth J. Boekeloo, Vice President, Michigan Bell, regarding the AT&T toll fraud surveillance project. "The company was being ripped off in amounts estimated at several hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Potentially, the rip-offs - if they were permitted to continue - could have amounted to millions of dollars annually. We were simply protecting the vast majority of our customers against the cheaters. In identifying and prosecuting people who were cheating us and the public, no laws were violated and no illegal monitoring of innocent customers took place"

Keywords

Michigan Bell Telephone Co. (MB); Kenneth J. Boekeloo (VP, MB)toll fraud; wiretapping; Greenstar

Abstract

Overview of AT&T's toll fraud surveillance system and Michigan Bell's participation in it.

Keywords

Detroit; wiretapping; American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T); St. Louis; New York; Los Angeles; Newark, NJ; Miami; Michigan Bell Telephone Co. (MB); Kenneth J. Boekeloo (Pres., MB); William P. Mullane, Jr.; blue box; Pic Wagner (spokesman, MB); Greenstar

Abstract

Overview of AT&T's toll fraud surveillance program and Michigan Bell's participation in it.

Keywords

Michigan Bell Telephone Co. (MB); wiretapping; American Telephone & Telegraph Co. (AT&T); blue box; Kenneth J. Boekeloo (VP, MB); Greenstar

Notes / See Also

Includes a list of related AP wire stories that appeared in other newspapers.

Abstract

UPI newswire story concerning the St. Louis Post-Dispatch scoop on the AT&T toll fraud surveillance program.

Keywords

St. Louis; New York; Detroit; Miami; Los Angeles; Newark, NJ; wiretapping; William P. Mullane, Jr.; Greenstar

Abstract

Brief WJR radio report on Michigan Bell's participation in the AT&T toll fraud surveillance program.

Keywords

Michigan Bell Telephone Co. (MB); Detroit; wiretapping; Greenstar

Notes / See Also

Includes typed list of three other local broadcasts.

Abstract

Michigan Bell states that its participation in AT&T's toll fraud surveillance system program was legal.

Keywords

Michigan Bell Telephone Co. (MB); eavesdropping; wiretapping; J. H. Shuler (VP and Gen. Counsel, MB); American Telephone and Telegraph Co. (AT&T); Pic Wagner (PR Mgr., MB); toll fraud; William P. Mullane, Jr.; Greenstar

Notes / See Also

News Clips sheet includes a typed list of related AP and UPI stories with publication names and story titles.

Abstract

Brief interview on WPIX 10 o'clock news with H. W. Caming regarding AT&T's toll fraud surveillance program.

Keywords

H. W. William Caming; blue box; wiretapping; Greenstar

Abstract

Discussion of wiretapping and security within the Bell system; lists security agents by name.

Keywords

blue box; H. W. William Caming; Greenstar; YIPL; TAP; National Wiretap Commission; wiretapping; eavesdropping; James Ashley; T. O. Gravitt; Southwestern Bell

Source

Alan Rubinstein

Abstract

New Jersey Bell defends its use of wiretapping to find blue box and black box users.

Keywords

New Jersey Bell Telephone Company (NJBTCo); blue box; black box; Long Lines Dept., AT&T; toll fraud; wiretapping

Notes / See Also

This seems to be the final page of a multi-page article.

Source

Alan Rubinstein

Abstract

H. W. William Caming testified before a House subcommittee and defended AT&T's practice of taping calls to identify blue box and black box users.

Keywords

AT&T; toll fraud; wiretapping; H. W. William Caming (atty., AT&T); blue box; black box; Greenstar

Notes / See Also

May be from Telephony; it is photocopied with a partial article from that publication.

Source

Alan Rubinstein

Abstract

New Jersey Bell detailed its involvement in AT&T's toll fraud surveillance program. Acknowledged monitoring 2.6 million telephone calls and recording 280,000.

Keywords

New Jersey Bell; Greenstar

Notes / See Also

We appear to be missing this document.