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HOTLINE TELEPHONES -
MAKING SENSE OF THE COLOURS AND THEIR USE

Edited by Jerry Proc



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Many people believe that a red telephone was part of the Washington-Moscow Hotline (WMH). There were NO phones at all on the hotline, let alone red ones. The so-called "RED HOTLINE"
between Washington USA and Moscow was actually a secure TELETYPE link. It is not known if any voice capability has been added since 1986, the year in which information about the WMH seems to dry up. Basically, any telephone that the President of the United States uses to call Moscow can be thought of as a hotline phone and as we will see later, it will not be a red telephone. "Hotline" phones can have different uses for different groups and they also come in yellow, black, green, gray and blue - with and without security. Some will have a large lamp on the front to indicate an incoming call .

Tim Tyler relates his experiences with White House communications systems during the Reagan era. "The Reagan-era Oval Office had a total of four phones:

* A non-secure office phone terminal on the President's desk.
* A secure telephone kept inside one of the lower side cabinets of his desk (ie the Resolute desk).
* A non-secure telephone sitting on the end-table by one of the couches.
* At times, a secure telephone inside a special end-table by one of the couches.

White House Communications Agency (WHCA) [1] techs could and would move phones around as needed. For example, the secure phone near the informal sitting area may just be there during enhanced geo-political situations. The secure phones were normally kept hidden to minimize clutter as well as any potential confusion as to whether a call was secure or non-secure. Normal phones weren't removed for Operational Security (OPSEC) reasons unless it was the only way to prohibit some people from snooping around to see who or what the labeled speed-dial/WHCA drops went to.