Odyssey of an Eavesdropper: My Life in Digital Countermeasures and My Battle Towards the FBI

Martin Kaiser is a legend inside the nation’s covert digital surveillance fraternity. Kaiser constructed units that would deliver down a head of state or present blackmail for a authorities company to smear a widely known civil rights chief. In Odyssey of an Eavesdropper, he tells his personal story — from an abusive childhood in a Pennsylvania coal-mining city to icon standing within the black-ops world of U.S. spy operations because the premier producer of digital surveillance devices and soiled tips, after which his battle for skilled and emotional survival, with the FBI bent on his destruction.

Kaiser’s shoppers included the FBI, CIA, DEA, Secret Service, Military, Navy, and Air Power Intelligence in addition to intelligence companies of Egypt, Argentina, and Canada. Nonetheless, after his testimony earlier than the Nationwide Wiretap Fee in l975, the FBI launched into a vendetta in opposition to Kaiser, almost driving him out of business and leading to his indictment on costs of unlawful wiretapping, conspiracy, and transporting an unlawful eavesdropping gadget throughout state traces. Acquitted of all costs, and after reinventing himself, Kaiser tells his private story whereas discussing historic moments in U.S. espionage and the way forward for privateness and surveillance in America.