Wiretapping: a secret history
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The Manhattan Wire Tap Nest
In 19 55, two detectives from the n y p d and two investigators from the new telephone company uncovered a listening post set up connected to more than 100 thousand telephones in manhattan. Also turns out that the wire tap nest was involved in a series of a high profile corporate espionage cases on going in he 19 fifties or early 60s. So i think my favorite part of your book was an episode titled the bug in the olive in the martini glass. Can you tell us about this? Story.
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