Reading Room Document

Legality of Common Carriers Assisting the Federal Government In Connection With Warrantless Electronic Surveillance for Foreign Intelligence Purposes

Intelligence—Warrantless Electronic Surveillance—Common Carriers (18 U.S.C. §§ 2510—2520, 47 U.S.C. § 605) The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/21591/download.

June 5, 1978