Odyssey of an Eavesdropper: My Life in Electronic Countermeasures and My Battle Against the FBI

About this book

Martin Kaiser is a legend within the nations covert electronic surveillance fraternity. With a hot-wired transmitter the size of a pea Kaiser built devices that could bring down a government prevent a terrorist attack or provide blackmail for a government agency to smear a well-known American Civil Rights leader. Now in Odyssey of an Eavesdropper he steps from the shadows of national security to tell his own story-a journey from an abusive childhood in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town to icon status in the black ops world of U.S. spy operations as the premier producer of electronic surveillance gadgets and dirty tricks and then his battle for professional and emotional survival with the FBI bent on his destruction. Kaisers clients included the FBI the CIA DEA Secret Service Army Navy and Air Force Intelligence as well as foreign intelligence services. However as a result of his testimony before the National Wiretap Commission in 1975 the FBI began a vendetta against Kaiser nearly driving his business into bankruptcy and resulting in his eventual indictment on charge of illegal wiretapping conspiracy and transporting an illegal eavesdropping device across state lines. Acquitted of all charges and having reinvented himself Kaiser tells his tale.