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Command, control, communication and intelligence
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How vulnerable are C3I networks?
How Vulnerable Are [C.sup.3]I Networks?
The Western intelligence community was bewildered to learn from East German secret services sources recently that West German PTT telephone and data traffic microwave links had been "tapped" regularly. The West also discovered that, weather permitting, virtually all radio communications in the Federal Republic could be intercepted from East Germany. So far, the Western world, which has had the technical capability of intercepting East Bloc radio traffic for some time, assumed that the East did not have the know-how required for such operations. Export restrictions on "sensitive" goods to COCOM nations were not only aimed at preventing them from playing this game, but also at ensuring that the West would be the only players, hence the United States' objections to the export of fiber-optic systems, for example (data transmitted by fiber optics being almost 100 percent immune to interception without a direct physical attack on the cable). From the military standpoint, the preferen...See the full content of this document
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