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on. Co "Page 23 . ‘Prohibition against COMINT vs. US citizens CL
7% In September wel Jomo to conduct Hearability -
tests of certain HF lonz-Gistance commercial: telephones circuits
LoL -" “between the US and South America. The circuits carried drug-
wo related traffic. .
i Tbe 12518 ware SUCCESsIul. Tas IVISY
i. WBE terminated on an 73 following OCC determination that they | »
© were illegal. .
: R Ve conduct an intercept operation in targeted :
on radio telephorns conversations
mess Iwereerts cwmmd :
so + large number of unrelated conversations often involving US citizens.
: "7 Testing 'in the US of CRD-developed electronic collection
i systems occasionally result in the collection OF domestic ‘telethons
. : conversations. When the tests are complete, the intercepted
7 Jv. material is destroyed. CT EY .
p a of ; fe cmcians conducted tests, in the Miami area in ’
co August 1 o ¥ gear intended for use against a Soviet agent in
+ -South Vietnam. While wholly innocuous, the tests precsued the
LC holding’ of ‘the conventions there and could be constiusd as
A .- being somehow related to them. IR : .
CC t+. In February 1972 CIA asked an official of AT&T for copies of .
RE . stelephone call slips relating to US-Chima calls. The operaticn oe
Co - . lasted for three or four months and then dried up. CGC stated its .
- ~~ belief that the collection of these slips did not. violate “the .
. * Cormumications Act since eavesdropping was not involved. a .
Page 29 "Mail coverage’ en ‘ Cs
Be «~~ Since 1953, CTA has operated .a mail intercept program of B
. oC -* incoming and outgoing Russian,mail and, at various times, -other . ~
- . . selected mail at Kennedy Airport in New.York City. ~Tais program :
wv oo: 7... is now dormant pending decision on whether to continue or to | N
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