> The midtown Manhattan “wiretap nest” remains one of the largest and most elaborate private eavesdropping operations ever uncovered in the United States. Wait

> The midtown Manhattan “wiretap nest” remains one of the largest and most elaborate private eavesdropping operations ever uncovered in the United States. Wait till you hear about a private eavesdropping[1] operation in Colombia: "In a 1994 raid, Cali cocaine cartel leader José Santacruz Londono was found to have assembled a database that contained both the office and residential telephone numbers of U.S. diplomats and agents based in Colombia, along with the entire call log for the phone company in Cali, which was leaked by employees of the utility. A $1.5 million IBM AS400 mainframe was loaded with custom-written data-mining software." "It cross-referenced the Cali phone exchange's traffic with the phone numbers of American personnel and Colombian intelligence and law enforcement officials. The computer was essentially conducting a perpetual internal mole-hunt of the cartel's organizational chart. Santacruz could see if any of his lieutenants were spilling the beans. A top Colombian narcotics security adviser says the system fingered at least a dozen informants -- and that they were swiftly assassinated by the cartel."[2][3] [1] Though more like meta-data analysis rather than listening to actual conversations. [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/eristocracy@merrymeet.com/msg00087.html https://www.mail-archive.com/eristocracy@merrymeet.com/msg00... [3] https://cocaine.org/cokecrime/index.html https://cocaine.org/cokecrime/index.html