Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Reach Out and Tap Someone Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 89 04:38:12 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 35 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 266, message 8 of 9 In a previous issue of the Digest (Vol 9, issue 120: April 3, 1989) I wrote that two former security people of Cincinnati Bell were claiming they had had engaged in numerous illegal taps over a 12 year period at the request of their supervisors at Cincinnati Bell and the Cincinnati Police Department. Cincinnati Bell filed suit against the two men, Leonard Gates and Robert Draize, claiming both were liars out to get even with the company after they had been fired for other reasons. 'Taint necessarily so, said a judge who agreed the charges may have some merit, and permitted the class action suit against Cincinnati Bell to continue this past week. The class action suit claims that Cincinnati Bell routinely invaded the privacy of thousands of people in the area by secretly tapping their phones at the request of police or FBI officials over a twelve year period from 1972 - 1984. The taps were mainly applied against political dissidents during the Viet Nam era, and in more recent years, against persons under investigation by the United States Attorney for southern Ohio, without the permission of a court. Now says the court, depending on the outcome of the class action suit, the criminal trials of *everyone* in the past decade in southern Ohio may have to be re-examined in light of illegal evidence gained by the US Attorney, via the FBI, as a result of the complicity of Cincinnati Bell with that agency, courtesy of Robert Draize and Leonard Gates. The testimony this past week got *very messy* at times. Gates and Draize seem detirmined to tell every dirty thing they know about Cincinnati Bell's security department over the dozen years they worked there. It is a very sad story indeed. See TELECOM Digest V9 #120 dated April 3, 1989 for the full background, and hold your breath, because the stink is going to get worse than ever before it is over and done with. Patrick Townson