CANADIAN SAYS HE CAN STOP ELECTRONIC TELEPHONE TAPS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200690006-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: October 7, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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,Sanitized - Approved For Release :
OCT 7 1964
Canadian Says He Can Stop
Electronic Telephone Tap
VANCOUVER, B. C. (Cana
than Press) ?- Don Feliks, an
amateur Inventor, says he has
the answer to,electronic eaves=
dropping.
"I figure my,invention sets
telephone bugging back 25
years," says the former para-
trooper who moved here from
Detroit In A960.
Although the British Columbia
Telephone Company Is not sure
,
.
about that, the company is in-`other: th& size of ;a', cigar box;
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terested In a tiny electronic de-
vice developed by the 30-year-old
inventor.
Mr. Feliks says his telephone
conventional tapping where
wires are actually attached to
telephone lines."
Modern telephone taps are
induction coils, which set up a
magnetic fieid ? to pick up con-
versations. Mr. Feliks's inven-
tion "creates an electrical field
far greater, thus jamming; the
induction coil,'!:
Tae ,)-as twor models, ne, the
size . of
'
a; cigarette pack," the