The Region - News from July 12, 1987

A Pacific Bell official branded as “erroneous” statements suggesting that the communications company has confirmed that the federal government tapped telephones of lawyers representing aliens charged with being national security risks. Wayne Perrin, a Pacific Bell investigations manager, said he did not tell one of the lawyers that their telephones were tapped. In papers filed last week in U.S. Immigration Court in Los Angeles, lawyers for seven Jordanians and a Kenyan facing deportation charged that telephone surveillance has tainted the evidence used against their clients.