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2011-03-12 Photon Leakage From Fiber Optic Cable
2011-03-12 Photon Leakage From Fiber Optic Cable
A sends:
The answer to your question regarding photon leakage from fiber optic cables is as follows:
It is a natural property of fiber optic cables that there is a photon field surrounding the cable,
generally referred to as an evanescent field. This is the optical analog to virtual images in RF
systems. This was very successfully exploited in tapping Soviet undersea cables off the west and
north coasts of the former USSR.
3 December 2011
Photon Leakage from Fiber Optic Cable
To: coldwarcomms[at]yahoogroups.com
From: "OZOB99" <ozob99[at]yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:59:41 -0000
Subject: [coldwarcomms] Operation Gold Photo's(was Re: Tapping underwater Russian phone
cables)
--- In coldwarcomms[at]yahoogroups.com, Sam Etler <etler[at]...> wrote:
> Not sure of the vintage of eavesdropping we're talking but could
> microbending of fiber optics also be a possibility? A lot of people
> don't think much of it but a lot of cables leak photons like copper
> leaks RF.
>
> On the Berlin Tunnel operation, a good recounting of it is presented
> in the CIA's Clandestine Services Historical Paper No. 150, "The
> Berlin Tunnel Operation, 1952-1956". I know of two copies of the
> document, one highly excised, one not so excised. You can find them
> here:
>
> http://etler.com/docs/CIA/CS
>
> I find it interesting to open them side by side and see what was at
> one time worthy of removal. Oddly the release date on the one with
> fewer excisions is Feb. 2007 while the other one is Jul. 2007. I
> unfortunately don't remember where I obtained either, but I've been
> aware of the one with more excisions since well before 2007.