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.255-257 and pp.317-318).Fearing that Gotti was developing a strategy to blame him for various crimes, the underbossturned the tables, and testified against Gotti (Blum 1993, pp.319-326).7.(p.114) Although US agents learned of meetings, they never succeeded in tracking Ames to one(Weiner et al.1995, pp.229-230, pp.245-246).8.(p.115) A tap of this kind is often called a bug and not clearly distinguished from a microphonelistening to the room.Such devices are inexpensive and easy to install.A radio bug built into an RJ11"octopus plug" has been advertised in Popular Electronics by a company called Seymore-Radix.Itsprice is about $30.9.(p.115) For a more detailed exploration of the ways a line can be tapped see Dash et al.1959 andFitzgerald and Leopold 1987.10.(p.115) On his first visit to Democratic National Committee Headquarters in the WatergateBuilding, James McCord succeeded in placing a bug in the phone of the chair's secretary.But thiselicited very little useful information, so McCord returned a few weeks later for a second-and fateful-try.11.(p.117) Apparently because the results were written down with a pen.12.(p.117) In Europe this has not been the case.Long-distance bills were instead compiled bymeans of a tone-based message-unit system that did not reveal the called number. 13.(p.117) Signaling System 7 (SS7), introduced to support ISDN in the 1980s, passes the identityof the called phone from switch to switch throughout the whole length of the call.14.(p.117) Clifford Stoll (1989, p.68) give a dramatic account of such an exercise that took place aslate as the mid 1980s.15.(p.117) Privacy blocking will prevent the ID information from being given to the receivingtelephone but will not conceal it from either a telephone company switch or private branch exchangeattached to the network by a DS1 connection.16.(p.117) Analysis of billing information during their investigation of World Trade Center bombingled the FBI from the initial suspect to his co-conspirators (Mashberg 1993; Bernstein 1994).17.(p.119) Another conspirator in the World Trade Center bombing, Eyad Ismoil, was picked upthrough a matching of telephone records with airline manifests; he was later convicted (McKinley1995a).18.(p.119) Investigators also used photos from several days before the explosion to prove thatTimothy McVeigh was the "Robert D.Kling" who, on the afternoon of April 17, 1995, in JunctionCity, Kansas, rented the Ryder truck used in the bombing.Days and weeks after the bombinginvestigators meticulously reconstructed McVeigh's movements on April 17.Surveillance photostaken at a McDonald's about a mile from the Ryder agency showed McVeigh at the restaurant at 3:49and 3:57 PM on that day.Shortly afterward, "Kling" rented the truck.When prosecutors claimed thatthe McDonald's photo was of McVeigh, his lawyer did not dispute the point.The photo was takenseveral days before there was any hint it would be useful in a criminal case and then the evidencewas available when needed (Brooke 1997a).19.(p.121) The provisions were later extended to the other armed forces.20.(p.122) Other investigators have reached different conclusions (Burnham 1996, p.218).Chapter 6.Privacy: Protections and Threats1.(p.126) Article 17 1.No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with hisprivacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to unlawful attacks on his honour and reputation.2. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks (UnitedNations 1985, p.149).2.(p.127) In East Germany clergymen and other religious workers were informants; siblingsinformed on one another, and there were even husbands who informed on their wives (Kinzer 1992).3.(p.127) The main purpose of the Privacy Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-579) was to ensure thatfederal records on individuals were accurate, timely, complete, and relevant (US-PPSC 1977, p.17).4.(p.129) The term "Secretary of State" must have designated an office more like that of thesecretary of state of California (whose duties include certifying election returns) than like that of theUS secretary of state, whose position in Britain is called "foreign secretary."5.(p.129) "You will know from whom this comes without a signature: the omission of which asrendered almost by the curiosity of the post office
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