LE TTERS
    
    10 ~HE
    
    3e ar pl~re e'- ~,
    
    T t--~ ~ ~ree`:= ii: ;~eed of i'~ for;.~tio~i,
    so I ca~ balai~ce J~l-~e score 'oe t~.,een tl~e
    ~,ell l~or,~any ~ the peonlee 1 e~;close
    a dollar. ~rour l~rother in the r~o~:e-
    ~en t-ii . l; ., J c~:,e ~ to,.;~:, ~. . ~ .
    
    I,~r dearest 5lrs:
    
    i. o thin: pleasure ~ rn.e r~ore than ripping
    off Iioll~er Bell. ?lease send ne.,s-
    letter. ~'nclosed is ~1 13.S. Also-a
    auestion...A fe;: fr~ds of ~ine ~a}:e
    long dis ~ance calls free fror~ pay
    phone bootl~s ':: y holdin~ the riouth-
    ~ece of the pl~one they ~ re ~sing up to
    ihe nhone ne~rt to it so the o~?erator
    
    ~ears the c]~ange ji:~l e a~d mal~es t::e
    connection. I ~ve tried ~ t here in D.C.
    and the operator says the cash hasn ~ t
    regFistered(r,F}~ic1~ of cour~e i ~ hasn ~ t) .
    I,lease te ll `;rhy . Tl~ar~= a lo t . ~ ~ ~ .,
    DuBois, Pa.
    
    In our natioi~ ~ s l~apital there are
    the sI~iny. new pay phones tha~ ~ro r,: ele-
    ctronicall~, instead of the din~ (~½),
    din~-ding ( 1 0c ) or donp; (25½ ) .iTe,:' o:~es
    have only one slot for depos' t, c~nd on
    old ones ",~our tricl~ v!ori~s, but hold
    
    the hand~et close to that phone!
                            ~d~ tor
    
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    E D I TOR
    
    FSe.nd ~le tlie ~l~it and don f t rip le off
    (please) S.;.., lirc3~ester,Pa.
    
    Dear Y.I.~'.IJ.,
    ~ tl~ou ,l~t you r,i, l~t be i~terested in
    a r~ove~en t ~tarted l~ere in Lancaster.
    r~he r.~overnen t is to h~ve people ~rho
    v~rish to see our troo?'s out of Vietn~n
    this year call then r local phone com-
    pany r~anaœer and have their pl~one re-
    moved . Tl~e r~anap;er -~us t l~e told ~rhy
    if it is ~co have any effect.~-Topefnlly
    enou~;h people will feel strongly Ec ci~e
    u~ phone service to begin showi ng up
    on the profits of the phone company.
    This would push the phone lobbies to
    speak out(Bell especially) to end our
    cont:rnued invol~ren~ent there. I f you
    cen assist i n any way by encouragi ng
    this to take place in other areas it
    would be apprec'ated. Thanks! J.G.,
    Lancaster, Pa.
    
    Hi People,
    Here ~ s my bill, send me shit on fuck-
    ing the Bell System. l;Ian do I need
    info on this kinda shit thanI<s D.B.,
    State College, Pa.
    
    OUR FRIENDLy PHONE CO~PHNYc...
    
    ne ex~,le of eavesc~roppi n`~ that toucl~es a v~st nt~r,~ber of A~nericans was
    relatec. ~o tl~e Su~corni:~ittee 1oy Joseph 3eirne, Fresident of the Cor!~munic~tions
    'or'~-ers of Ar.~erica. I;e re~realed ti~at tl~e pho~,e co.,~.n~r does not li~it its
    inva~ions of T'rivac'~ to asr;isti-ll`~ flie F2I an o'-her ,overn;.,ent ta~pers. He
    ~ointed out ~'-~at " a~ ~ar t of its tr~i~,in`, prograr., ~ anr] as part of ~t" cont-
    int~in ~ clo~e -~.~ervi.¯ion of its e~-lplo~ees, the telephone indll:5try l~as de~relo~oed
    eo ni~t~re~)t for i:~onitorir ~ its o~erators, its service assi:;tant.s, it., cor~n~ercial
    Office er.~lo~ees-il1 sl~cr~, all of its e,~lplo~ees `.ho deal '.~:itl: the custor~er. ~u~f
    :o~:i tori~`, !: eans, of cour~e, that tl~e custo:-.,er is, in effect, ~onitored at tl~e
    sa:.~e tii;~e . "
    "In aler~v ~nooper is ~o~.~eti~-.~es a;~Ie to obtai~ tl~e infor~-. ation l~e needs sir.lply
    1~- ca~ lin,, tlie ~eler~:one of ~ice a~'d posinL; as ~ telephone repairrnan. Or, if
    tl~e tap~er ~ _ ~ ~ a~-en~o:rce,- en' of[ice~, her nay be able to secure the outrigl~t
    cooperation of the telepi~one cor,~nany in the placi nr of his ta~In l~ansas
    C~t~r, t ~e e::'s~ence of j~st sucl~ an arrangerl~ent between the telephone cor.~pa'~y
    ~:d ~l~e ch~ef of police was revealed."
    Tl~e aDove t`:ro quotes were r.'ade by .~enator l~d`:`ard V. Long.
    
    In the ol fice ~re call it "The System", and use of the ~rord "the" means dog-
    matic finality. Ti~e wall co~es u~ pretty fast v!hen you start tampering with
    the `~,ay tI~ n ~ -. are done ~ntl~ n Tl~e System, and you either slow do~m and do
    th~ngs Bel~'s ,;'ay or knoc,~ your bra~ns out,-AT<'T junior executive,spring,1967

    





    
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