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From: mcrocket@ddsw1.mcs.com (Michael J. Crockett)
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Subject: Re: President Bush Uses Cellular?
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Date: 17 Aug 90 00:15:41 GMT
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>>In a photograph which ran in my local newspaper (source: AP
>>wirephoto), it showed President Bush talking to a military leader from
>>his golf cart.  The phone appeared to be a plain old cellular
>>telephone, although there was a smaller box attached to the main
>>transceiver unit.

>I'm sure the President's conversation was duly encrypted prior to
>going to the local cell.  I wouldn't be surprised if the cell or cells
>in that area turned out to actually belong to Uncle Sam too, although
>I don't know for sure either way.

If the cellular system in that part of Maine is anything like the
Wireline System in the Washington/Baltimore area, then facilties for
encrypted service are installed as part of the system and are
available to anyone that wants to pay for the service AND pay for the
box that must be used at the cellular telephone.