Roger Tolces, a Los Angeles private investigator specializing in electronic countermeasures, joins to discuss the evolving landscape of surveillance technology. He describes cell phone bugs that transmit conversations globally through the cellular network, the CALEA law that pre-wired all American phones for government wiretapping, and the disturbing revelation that cell phones track geographic movements even when not in active calls. At a PI convention, a forensic specialist recovered over 800,000 supposedly deleted files from a used laptop, demonstrating that digital deletion is an illusion.
The conversation turns to weaponized microwave technology, including a modified microwave oven used to irradiate apartment neighbors and a 50,000-watt microwave rifle kit available through plans online. Tolces connects these threats to the symptoms reported by hundreds of people who contact him claiming electronic harassment, many of whom he believes are genuine victims of covert experimentation under Title 50 provisions.
Key Moments
Cell phone bug on a phone line: Tolces describes a device he saw at a PI convention that attaches to a target's phone pair, and when the target lifts their handset the cell-phone bug auto-dials a remote listening post anywhere in the world.
Feds wiretap moves with the office: Tolces tells how an Arab Defense League law office in LA opened new lines in Hollywood and the secretaries instantly heard their old colleagues - the FBI had bridged both locations to its listening posts and forgotten to drop the original tap.
Your cell phone tracks you even when off: Art reacts on-air to Tolces' claim that a powered-down cell phone still logs your location, calling it a genuine surprise to him.
The Active Denial 60 GHz microwave weapon: Tolces describes the U.S. Active Denial unit - a 60 GHz microwave antenna mounted on a Humvee. A volunteer reporter 500 feet downrange said it felt like a hot light bulb pressed to his skin and dove for the dirt within three seconds.
GPS tracking implants and patients who don't know they have them: Tolces points to U.S. Patent 'apparatus for tracking and recovering human beings' granted in 1997 using an implantable transceiver, and says he has tested people who unknowingly carry implants - some after elective surgery, others reporting missing time.