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Office of Telecommunications Policy's Contract for a Publication on Intercepting Electronic Communications

LCD-78-110 Published: Apr 10, 1978. Publicly Released: Apr 10, 1978.
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In June 1976, the Office of Telecommunications Policy awarded a firm-fixed-price sole-source negotiated contract to the Mitre Corporation to study the interception vulnerabilities of unprotected domestic commercial telecommunications systems, especially microwave systems. The study yielded a two-volume report and a separate how-to publication entitled "Elected Examples of Possible Approaches to Electronic Communications Interception Operations."

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