Command Post Operations

Abstract

At about 2:30 a.m., on October 8, 1986, in a rundown hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio, the desk clerk manning the PBX telephone station noticed that the telephone line for room 819 was open. Since, a half hour earlier, he had helped the man in that room, a man named Danny, place a long-distance telephone call to Winchester, Kentucky, the clerk assumed there must be an equipment problem. When he checked on the line, however, the clerk was surprised to find that the long-distance call was still going on. What really surprised and upset the clerk, though, was the short conversation he overheard.