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Echelon 'Proof' Discovered by Chris Oakes 3:00 a.m. 26.Jan.2000 PST References to a project Echelon have been found for the first time in declassified National Security Agency documents, says the researcher who found them. After combing through declassified National Security Agency documents, Jeffrey Richelson, a researcher for the National Security Archives, has concluded that Echelon -- the purported name of the alleged international project for intercepting all forms of electronic communication -- does exist. (The National Security is an independent, non-governmental research institute and library at George Washington University, according to its Web site, and has no relation to the ...

From: March 20,2000 The Nation by CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS "Just an Oversight: In the late nineteenth century, Cecil Rhodes proposed a world system based on an Anglo-Saxon and English-speaking condominium. The white territories of England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand would be the apexes, and the United States would by this means learn to repudiate its foolish error of independence and rejoin the British Empire (this, by the way, if you like to collect antique conspiracy theories, was the stated purpose of the scholarships that bear Rhodes's name). The British Empire is gone now, and Northern and Southern Rhodesia have become ...

Big Ears and Big Secrets European Officials Suspect the United States is Spying on Its Allies Europeans suspect the 27 radomes at a U.S. listening post at Menwith Hill, Yorkshire, U.K., are being used for more than just matters of international security. (Federation of American Scientists) N E W Y O R K, July 16 —Some of America's closest European allies suspect a massive U.S. listening post, nestled on the quiet, windswept moors of northern England, has secretly been spying on European governments, businesses and citizens. [Ya don't say?] The station, located at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire, and reportedly staffed ...

Airstrip One by Emmanuel Goldstein Antiwar.com March 1 , 2000 The Echelon Project and the New McCarthyism DRAWING THE LINE Now, let me get one thing straight, I do not like snooping. Not even on the French. In fact, I am all in favour of privacy; I judge it as high as motherhood and apple pie. Hell I even have a pseudonym and write for a Libertarian site, how much more private can I get? However, there is one thing that’s really spooking me, what’s going on in the European Parliament in the name of privacy nuts like me. ...

ECHELON What's a little spying between friends? You are not supposed to spy on your friends. As details emerge of U.S. intelligence agencies eavesdropping on the e-mail, faxes, and phone calls of European businesses, politicians in Europe are calling for better ways to safeguard industrial secrets. The most contentious source of trenchcoat contretemps among trans-Atlantic allies: Internet encryption. The United States is trying to persuade the European Union to allow only Internet codes for which law enforcement and national security agencies would have a "key." That would help to combat terrorists and drug smugglers. But it would also give U.S. ...

Jerry,?p? I wrote to you before on the Echelon issue. Thought I'd cover some points again, since you are likely to get a ton of mail on it.?p? By way of qualifications, I spent 25 years in Intel at the CIA, NSA and one other agency that must remain nameless, in very deep Black projects. Many of those years were as the Information Systems Manager for the projects I worked on, requiring access to many projects simultaneously. Although compartmentation (the byword in those projects, which is the method for isolating information within the environment) is very high, we had some ...

What are those words that trigger Echelon?According to various UK media sources today, the buzzwords said to trigger the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand spying mechanism Echelon have been "posted on the Internet". We haven't found the file and it hasn't popped up on the authoritative site for these sorts of things, Cryptome.org, so we'd not put too much weight behind it. However, just for your interest, we give you a quick run-through on what some of the words are. There are the obvious phrases like "Kill the President" which caused two schoolboys from the UK to be quizzed by ...

Following the four EuroParl reports last year on Echelon and electronic surveillance in general, a fifth report has appeared, dated October 1999, but as far as we know not heretofore widely publicized: http://cryptome.org/dst-pa.htm (108K) This report briefly outlines the first four and then examines the history of electronic surveillance and privacy policies in Europe and the US, compares laws and regulations, and makes suggestions for what might be done to resolve conflicts. Now that the US and Europe claim to be reaching an agreement on privacy protection, though details remain to be explained, this report is useful to understand the ...

.France to Sue US, UK OVER Echelon Spy Network Dean blasts potential collusion between governments and businesses Drudge Report2/11/2000 WASHINGTON, DC - A class action lawsuit is being prepared in France against the US and British governments for taking part in an international espionage network. The suit asserts that English-speaking nations collaborated to secretly intercept telephone, fax and e-mail data from other nations' governments and companies, including France. "The European Parliament has already issued preliminary studies regarding the capabilities of the Echelon system," said Free Congress Foundation's Vice President for Technology Policy Lisa S. Dean. "Congressman Bob Barr has called ...

It Came From Ft. Meade Echelon Lives! And Europe Is Mad The Anglo-American electronic eavesdropping network. BRITAIN and the US are facing unprecedented legal and political challenges from their European allies over a secret Anglophone spy network. Newly declassified American documents last week provided the first official confirmation that the global electronic eavesdropping operation exists. The Echelon surveillance system - run by five English-speaking nations but dominated by the US - is reportedly capable of monitoring telephone, fax and email communications relayed by satellite anywhere in the world. The network is a legacy of the Cold War intelligence showdown ...

CIA, NSA and DoJ required to clarify use of Project Echelon 11 November 1999 The US House of Representatives has added to the Foreign Intelligence Authorisation Act for FY 2000, adopted today by the full House, that the National Security Agency (NSA) which manages Project Echelon, the CIA and the Department of Justice, will have 60 days to report to Congress on the legal standards they use on communications intercepts involving American citizens. The prime mover behind this is Bob Barr representing Georgia's seventh district. Barr, a former CIA official and United States Attorney, serves on the House Judiciary and ...

NSA, ECHELON, and Hearings Spies Left Out in the Cold by Declan McCullagh 3:00 a.m. 13.Dec.1999 PST It's enough to spook any spy. Congress plans to hold hearings next year that will, for the first time in a quarter century, investigate whether the National Security Agency is too zealous for our own good. Much has changed since those hearings in 1975. Instead of being a place so secretive that the Department of Justice once abandoned a key prosecution rather than reveal the National Security Agency's existence in court, "the Fort" has become enmeshed in popular culture. Techno-thrillers like Enemy of ...

ECHELON Technology The NSA has been patenting, and publishing, technology that is relevant to ECHELON. ECHELON is a code word for an automated global interception system operated by the intelligence agencies of the U.S., the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. (The NSA takes the lead.) According to reports, it is capable of intercepting and processing many types of transmissions, throughout the globe. Over the past few months, the U.S. House of Representatives has been investigating ECHELON. As part of these investigations, the House Select Committee on Intelligence requested documents from the NSA regarding its operating standards for intelligence systems ...

Russian EchelonInternet Providers Let Spies Read Your E-Mails Critics and fans of the security services agree: Internet service providers across Russia are helping the main KGB successor agencies to read private e-mails and other Internet traffic, as part of an ambitious internal espionage program called SORM-2. "SORM implementation is in full force and I suspect that all [Internet service] providers have at least begun the process and many have completed it," said Yury Vdovin, vice chairman of the St. Petersburg-based Citizens' Watch human rights group. "None of the providers will talk about it, though," Vdovin added. "They are all afraid." ...

These links are to PDF files and the first is a list for 5 different files (volumes) from 91KB to 1026KB. For those of you that want to know ... well it's worth your time to read, but it's much to large to copy and post. Development of surveillance technology and risk of abuse of economic information Click on "In the spotlight: Echelon" at the right-hand side on the PDF symbol. This will bring you to the list on ECHELON. Or you can view some of the other subjects if you like. This link will take you to the European ...

Monitor This, Echelon by Chris Oakes3:00 a.m. 22.Oct.99.PDT Privacy advocates may not have been able to stop the snooping, but making their intrusion-jamming efforts highly public may have done some good after all. If you forgot to mark it on your calendar, Thursday was the day to jam international communications systems tracking your every word. See also: Hackers Ascend Upper 'Echelon' Activist hackers conceived Jam Echelon Day under the premise of: If we're being monitored, let's really give them something to monitor. The email-based campaign came amid expanding conjecture that superpower world governments may have constructed a massive global system ...

ACLU to Spy on Echelon by Chris Oakes 3:00 a.m. 17.Nov.1999 PST The American Civil Liberties Union has focused its eye on an international electronic surveillance system that allegedly eyeballs regular citizens. The civil liberties watchdog launched Echelon Watch, a site designed to prompt governmental investigation into the reality -- and the legalities -- of a global electronic surveillance system said to be code-named "Echelon." See also: Echelon 'Confirmation:' Not "This has gone from X Files material to clear reality," said ACLU associate director Barry Steinhardt. "I think at this point it's fact that it exists." The ACLU created ...

NSA and Echelon A Top-Secret Agency [NSA] Comes Under Scrutiny and May Have to Adjust The New York Times, December 5, 1999 By JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON -- No government organization has been better insulated from public scrutiny than the National Security Agency. Its very existence as America's premier eavesdropper and code-breaker was classified for decades, and the NSA -- also known as "No Such Agency" -- has been able to keep the press and Congress largely at bay even as the CIA has come under increased scrutiny in the wake of its Cold War excesses and failures. But the NSA's ...

More ECHELONMANY ARE MONITORING US BY: BO ELKJÆR AND KENAN SEEBERG Danish citizens and companies are being monitored by a great number of countries and organizations, according to an explanation given by Denmark's Minister of Defense Hans Hækkerup last Wednesday in the Danish parliament in reply to two questions from Keld Albrechtsen (Unity Party). Keld Albrechtsen had asked the Minister of Defense if the Danish Government would try to get the US to enter into an agreement in which it promises to refrain from spying on Denmark and monitoring Danish citizens. Minister of Defense Hans Hækkerup blankly denied any attempt ...

ECHELON is a global Communications Interception (COMINT) system created by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to routinely and indiscriminately monitor and record all forms of electronic communications worldwide (both military and civilian) and overseen by the National Security Agency (NSA). The existence of ECHELON has been know for some time. But, until recently, there was no solid evidence to support its existence. That changed on March 16, 1999, when Martin Bradley, Director of the Australian COMINT agency, the Defense Signals Directorate (DSD) confirmed in a letter to Ross Coulthart, a reporter for the Sunday ...