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From: Karolyn Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, January 02, 2000
Subj: * * *Danish Echelon Reports* * * NEW EXPOSURE * * *
Bo Elkjaer* * *
23 December 1999
See other articles in the series:
http://cryptome.org/echelon-baby.htm
http://cryptome.org/sigint-dk.htm
http://crytpome.org/echelon-dk2.htm
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From: Bo Elkjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999
Subj: NEW EXPOSURE ON ECHELON - Sigint/Surveillance/Denmark
I have posted a couple of articles on Echelon, that I and my
colleague Kenan Seeberg have written for the Danish daily Ekstra
Bladet. The posted articles - in English - are just a few of
approx. 50 articles we have written on sigint, surveillance and
eavesdropping.
This mail is just to inform that our site on Echelon will be up and
operating today Dec. 23. 1999. I'm afraid that the articles on the
site are still in Danish - but the pictures are pretty and we'll
have the English translations on site shortly.
Site adress is http://www.eb.dk
or direct link http://www1.ekstrabladet.dk/netdetect/echelon.iasp
The site will remain under construction until we have written
guarantees, that all illegal surveillance has been stopped!
Yours
Bo Elkjaer and Kenan Seeberg, Denmark
We will continue to post the translated articles on Cypherpunks
as soon as we get them.
>>Bevar naturen: Sylt et egern.<<
>>URL: http://www.datashopper.dk/~boo/index.html<<
>>PGP-encrypted mail welcomed and preferred.<<
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From: Bo Elkjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999
Subj: US CONGRESSMAN: INVESTIGATE ECHELON - The constitution is
under fire - Sigint/Surveillance/Denmark
Published in Ekstra Bladet, Denmark, December 10. 1999:
INVESTIGATE ECHELON
US congressman to Ekstra Bladet: The constitutions of both
the US and Denmark have come under fire.
BY: BO ELKJÆR AND KENAN SEEBERG
Washington DC - Ekstra Bladet
Bob Barr is a Republican and considers himself to be a true
American. There is a replica of the Statue of Liberty as tall as
a person standing in his office - right next to the Stars and
Stripes. Outside the statesman-like offices, the flag of Georgia
waves in the breeze - an image of the southern state he represents
in the Congress. Barr is an old-fashioned conservative who believes
that fair is fair and the law must be obeyed. Which explains why
Echelon makes his blood boil.
"We're talking about infringement of privacy, and even of the very
Constitution itself, which I fear is being heavily violated by a
system like Echelon. Our administration of justice act is also
endangered. Spying on American citizens across a wide front is
out of line. The law simply forbids it, and I'm afraid that that is
exactly what is happening."
FORMER CIA AGENT
Echelon is an American based system. How do you feel about the fact
that the USA spies on its allies and their citizens?
"I don't like it. And it is also out of line to use these systems
to evade the law. We suspect that the involved countries are
gathering information about other countries after which they
exchange this collected information. It's nothing but a way to
evade the law."
Bob Barr knows something about the work of the secret agencies,
since the congressman is himself a former CIA agent. In his own
words, he mainly worked on legal issues. The CIA is one of the
intelligence agencies that cooperates closely with the NSA in areas
like Echelon.
"We simply must find out what the NSA is doing with these global
surveillance systems. Whether it takes open or closed hearings or
in the way in which the NSA prepares some of its reports. But as a
representative of the people, we politicians must be able to assure
the people that all these initiatives are obeying the law. And I
really hope that the NSA will not exploit American law to keep
silent."
"The population has a right to know what is going on, particularly
when we have a powerful suspicion that monitoring is not only
directed at specific targets, but also at common citizens,
companies and so on."
Isn't it reasonable for an intelligence agency to keep these things
secret?
"Yes, of course. They can't reveal everything. And we must make
sure, especially in the field of conventional surveillance, that
they can carry out their work satisfactorily. But we must also keep
an eye on them. Ever since the Watergate Scandal, we have kept a
closer eye on the intelligence agencies, and this has actually
functioned quite well. But we haven't been told anything about the
case you are working on. Therefore, we need to be fully informed."
THE DANISH GOVERNMENT MUST DEMAND TO BE INFORMED
What would you encourage Denmark's politicians and the Danish
government to do?
"The individual members of parliament must discuss the issue so
that their electorate can see that they are concerned about
bringing out the truth. And if there is the slightest suspicion
that the law has been broken, and the populace is worried, then the
Danish Government should investigate what is happening. They must
demand to be fully informed by their intelligence agencies so they
can tell the Danish people what is happening."
"I'm quite amazed that the countries operating the system along
with the NSA haven't demanded to be informed before now, i.e.
the so-called UKUSA partners: Canada, Australia, England and New
Zealand. Furthermore, to the best of my information, it seems that
almost every west European country is participating. "
Why are you sounding the alarm now?
"Because we didn't realize what was happening until this past year
as a result of things like a conference organized by the ACLU
(American Civil Liberties Union). The more we get to know, the more
I realize that we've got a serious problem on our hands."
"You must realize that the way in which the intelligence agencies
work has changed enormously in recent years. That's why it is very
urgent we examine what they're up to. Our Congress has not examined
the work of its intelligence agencies for the past twenty years.
During this time, they have acquired a totally new potential to
collect and forward information. Therefore, I have demanded
congressional hearings that will commence early next year."
Together with fellow congressman Dan Burton from Indiana, Barr is
currently preparing a large congressional hearing together with a
number of previous NSA agents and intelligence experts.
Bob Barr has previously worked for the US government as a district
attorney.
COPYRIGHT 1999: EKSTRA BLADET - COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
>>Bevar naturen: Sylt et egern.<<
>>URL: http://www.datashopper.dk/~boo/index.html<<
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From: Bo Elkjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999
According to their mission, the 650th Military Intelligence Group
acts as "single point of contact" for the intelligence agencies in
NATO - including the different branches of US intelligence, that
maintains the listening-posts at Menwith Hill in the UK and Bad
Aibling in Germany which are part of the UKUSA system.
THE DANISH LINK TO THE GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE NETWORK
Disclosure: Ekstra Bladet maps out Danish participation in
Echelon's European espionage network.
BY: BO ELKJÆR AND KENAN SEEBERG
Since 1997, Denmark has intensified its participation in the
global surveillance network known under the code name of Echelon.
The Danish reinforcements occurred in connection with the
reorganization of the NATO headquarters, BALTAP, in Karup, Denmark.
Today, Ekstra Bladet exposes the direct connection between the two
Danish intelligence agencies - the PET and the FE - with the
American intelligence agencies that constitute the primary core of
the Echelon collaboration.
Minister of Defense Hans Hækkerup and Minister of Justice Frank
Jensen have denied any knowledge of the Echelon system on several
occasions. Most recently, in an article published in Dansk Forsvar
[Danish Defense], Minister of Defense Hans Hækkerup directly denied
that Denmark participates in Echelon.
"Let me get right to the point: Denmark's armed forces, including
the Intelligence Agency of the Danish Armed Forces (FE), do not
participate in a world-wide surveillance network known as Echelon,"
he writes. Ekstra Bladet can now conclude either that the minister
is being kept in the dark or else the intelligence system has
changed the code name for Echelon. The third possibility is that
Hækkerup's denial is simply and positively incorrect, to put it
nicely.
The key to the disclosure of Denmark's participation in the Echelon
system is located in Karup, Denmark in the Jutland peninsula where
the NATO headquarters named BALTAP - short for Baltic Approach -
are located.
NATO's unitary command - a Danish-German joint command with
affiliated officers from Great Britain and the US - is stationed
at the base. In 1997, the ministers of defense for the 16 NATO
countries reached an agreement on reorganizing the entire structure
for NATO's headquarters.
In the same breath, the Americans were - secretly - given the
authority to spy on Danish soil - against the Danish population.
This occurred when the US 650th Military Intelligence Group was
given the authority to perform what is known as counterintelligence
affiliated with the NATO headquarters.
WE DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT
Not surprisingly, it has been impossible to wrench even a partial
confirmation out of either the Ministry of Defense or the Ministry
of Justice.
Nevertheless, Ekstra Bladet has unearthed a US mission statement
for intelligence agencies. It states that "the 650th Military
Intelligence Group is part of Europe's allied command, ACE, under
NATO, and that the group is "dedicated to acquiring support for the
counterintelligence services for the Supreme Allied Headquarters
Europe (SHAPE), its subsidiary commands and the Supreme Allied
Commander Europe (SACEUR)."
Furthermore, the mission statement reveals that the 650th MI Group
shall carry out counterintelligence activities for American units
in Europe as well as for, among others, BALTAP in Denmark.
The mission statement of the 650th Military Intelligence Group
states that it is the Group's task to coordinate the intelligence
cooperation between the intelligence agencies of the various NATO
countries - including Denmark's PET and FE - with the American
intelligence agencies. This entire intelligence collaboration is
coordinated under the auspices of NATO.
THE 650TH UNITES THE COOPERATION
Minister of Defense Hans Hækkerup admitted at a joint council
in September that the Danish military intelligence agencies
"cooperated with foreign intelligence agencies" on surveillance.
The task of the 650th MI Group is to monitor the threat situation
surrounding the NATO headquarters in Karup. One of the methods used
by the group to protect the Karup headquarters is known in spy
jargon as "Offensive Counterintelligence Operations - OFCO. For the
time being, the purpose of these offensive counterintelligence
operations remains unknown. They are classified as top secret.
One thing is for sure however: The Group's assignment is to
coordinate the intelligence collaboration in the NATO region.
By virtue of this role, the Group is a very tangible link between
the two Danish intelligence agencies and the extensive Echelon
apparatus which manifests itself in several European locations.
COPYRIGHT 1999: EKSTRA BLADET - COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
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From: Bo Elkjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999
Subj: INTERVIEW W. EX-NSA AGENT: YOUR GOVERNMENT IS BEING MONITORED -
Sigint/Surveillance/Denmark
Printed in Denmark, Ekstra Bladet, Nov. 26. 1999.
"In 1985, their long-term goal was "total hearability", i.e. the
capability to listen in on all communication around the world."
EX-AGENT TO DANISH MINISTERS:
YOU ARE BEING MONITORED
Former Echelon agent warns Danish politicians against
confidential conversations over the phone.
BY BO ELKJÆR AND KENAN SEEBERG
The Echelon system not only listens in on private persons,
companies and interest groups, Danish politicians and ministers are
also the target of the NSA's extensive espionage, reveals Wayne
Madsen to Ekstra Bladet, who meets him in Washington D.C. Wayne
Madsen was once a spy for the National Security Agency NSA -
the intelligence service behind Echelon - but he has severed
connections with his former employer.
We are crossing the border into the state of Maryland. Behind us
lies Washington D.C., the US capital - and somewhere in front
before us lies Fort Meade in neighbor-state Maryland. 'The Fort'
is the headquarters for world-wide espionage and the workplace for
38,613 of the most talented secret agents in the world.
Wayne Madsen is very familiar with Fort Meade. For several years,
it was his clandestine workplace. He has a pistol in the glove
compartment of his car. Loaded. Wayne Madsen is always armed
wherever he drives.
"I don't carry a gun because I think it's cool to have a pistol.
But based on the sources I still have in the NSA, I know there are
people in the intelligence services who do not care for people who
talk about the secret services. Since they are armed, I had better
be prepared, too."
Wayne Madsen is an experienced man in regards to secret projects
and surveillance. Since 1975, he has been operating the most
sophisticated computer technology in existence. First as a marine
in the US Navy, then as an agent for the National Security Agency,
NSA, and most recently as an employee at two of the NSA's partners,
RCA and the Computer Science Corporation.
"Whenever anyone criticizes the NSA, it is important to remember
that they have done a lot of important work, too. Both during
the Second World War and the Cold War, when they were talented
at breaking the codes of the Nazis and the East Bloc countries
respectively."
TOTAL HEARABILITY
To prove to us that the NSA does more than just 'black work',
Wayne Madsen wants to show us an unusual museum, the NSA's
Center for Cryptologic History.
"Since it is located at the same address as NSA headquarters,
Fort Meade, we can see the buildings I worked in at the same time
- from the outside at least."
Just before we get to Fort Meade, Wayne Madsen points down an
access road. "I went through a lie-detector test and a voice-test
analysis over there, before I was approved by the NSA," Wayne
tells us with a faint, shy smile.
He was a lieutenant in the Navy at the time with ten years of
experience in tracking Soviet U-boats and monitoring computer
security.
What is the role of the NSA now that the Cold War is over?
"Primarily, they have a global network of computers known as
Echelon. The computers are connected with their intelligence
satellites and listening posts all over the world. And they still
do military work. The difference is, however, that today they
monitor everything and everyone. Politicians, organizations,
companies, private individuals, even friends in allied countries.
In 1985, their long-term goal was "total hearability", i.e. the
capability to listen in on all communication around the world."
MINISTERS MONITORED
Is Denmark part of this system?
"Yes. Denmark is a third-party partner in the surveillance
agreements. On the other hand, however, Danish ministers and
politicians must assume that they are under surveillance."
What?
"Yes, that is part of the way they work. At their embassies, they
have groups called 'Special Collection Elements' that monitor local
low-frequency communication. Anything of interest is forwarded here
to Fort Meade where it is analyzed."
"If something can't be intercepted from the embassies, they try to
intercept it from the listening posts in the various neighboring
countries. So is it very risky for Danish ministers to talk on
cellular and satellite telephones alike," says Wayne Madsen as we
enter the NSA museum.
SPY TO EX-SPY
Inside the museum, Wayne Madsen asks whether Jack Ingram is at work
today.
A moment later, a tall man appears. Ingram has been an NSA spy for
many years. Now he administrates the museum. He shakes hands with
Wayne, and the pair quickly strike up a conversation about common
acquaintances at various intelligence agencies and companies.
Shortly after, we walk around looking at the NSA's exhibits of
cast-off super-computers and code deciphering equipment - debris
from more than fifty years of intensive espionage in world-wide
communication. Wayne Madsen continues:
"Denmark doesn't get very much out of being a third party, because
NSA is the first party and decides which information the other
countries receive. So obviously, whenever they monitor specific
politicians or companies in a certain country, they naturally don't
tell the local government about it. The information they give to
Denmark is something that promotes their own interests or something
they themselves consider to be a threat. For example something
about Tamilians or the PKK, the Kurdish resistance movement. If it
involves information which promotes their own financial interests,
then naturally they use it for their own benefit."
Do you have specific examples of what you are saying?
"Mike Frost, who worked for Canada's intelligence service, which
also participates in Echelon, has personally monitored both
politicians and companies in other countries. He told me among
other things about monitoring the Chinese embassy in Canberra,
Australia. All the information was forwarded here, to Fort Meade.
The Australians never saw the information because the US could use
it to control the world wheat trade. Although I write books and
articles about the NSA, I still have good contacts in intelligence
circles at present," states Wayne Madsen.
As we drive back to Washington, he turns briefly toward Fort
Meade's parabolic antennas with a serious look on his face:
"The problem is that the NSA has lost sight of its purpose. It's
not right that taxpayers' money is used to help major shareholders
in large corporations to earn huge profits. Or for that matter the
fact that the NSA puts ordinary people, legal organizations and
politicians under constant suspicion."
EXTRA FACTS
In a joint council in September, Minister for Defense Hans Hækkerup
admitted that Denmark cooperates with other countries on
surveillance. However, Hans Hækkerup would not reveal which
countries and intelligence agencies Denmark cooperates with. It
does appear, however, in the archives left behind by the former
head of the Danish Defense Department's Intelligence Service,
Commander Mørch.
Sources in Mørch's archives show that Denmark entered into an
agreement with the US on surveillance cooperation all the way back
in 1947 - the same year that the UKUSA - the pact behind Echelon -
was established. The UKUSA pact is controlled by the National
Security Agency in the US, in which the Australian, Canadian,
New Zealand and British intelligence services participate as
second-party partners. Most NATO countries - including Denmark -
officially entered the pact as third-party partners in 1950.
According to documents in the possession of Extra Bladet, the
National Security Agency has now confirmed that it has third-party
partners.
COPYRIGHT 1999: EKSTRA BLADET - COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
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From: Bo Elkjaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999
Printed in Denmark, Ekstra Bladet, Sept. 17 1999
Photo of listening post will be posted at www.eb.dk
as soon as possible.
REARMING DENMARK
The Intelligence Agency of the Danish Armed Forces (FE) is
expanding: Ekstra Bladet can now prove that the FE is expanding
its secret espionage facilities in Denmark.
BY BO ELKJÆR AND KENAN SEEBERG
Take a good look at this picture. Note the large crane. It is in
the process of installing almost ten million DKK (1.4 mill. USD)
worth of secret surveillance equipment for the FE.
The disclosure of the fact that the FE is expanding its secret
surveillance facilities is poorly timed for Minister for Defence
Hans Hækkerup. Today he has an appointment with the Danish
Parliament's Europe Committee to give a full accounting of
Denmark's participation in the global surveillance ring known
by the code name of Echelon.
The expansion work revealed today by Ekstra Bladet is taking place
in Skibsbylejren near Hjørring, Denmark at one of the FE's three
large listening posts. The addition of the new installations
considerably enlarges the FE's capacity.
According to British technology expert Duncan Campbell, the
intelligence agency's facilities near Hjørring are part of
the global surveillance system known as Echelon.
THE OLD PARABOLIC ANTENNAS WERE TOO SMALL
With camera in hand, Ekstra Bladet paid a discrete visit to
Echelon at Skibsbylejren near Hjørring. As seen in the photos on
this page, the large cranes are in the process of expanding the
military installation. This fits in well with another piece of
information of which the public is also totally ignorant.
Last year, the Ministry for Defence granted 9.5 million DKK
(1.25 mill. USD) for Skibsbylejren. According to the appropriation
from the Building Services of the Defence Department, the grant is
earmarked for 'erecting antennas'. The purpose of the antennas -
ten years after the end of the Cold War - is still all in the air
for the time being. Ekstra Bladet naturally contacted Skibsbylejren
to get an explanation:
What is going on here?
"They are in the process of replacing the old facilities with new
equipment. New parabolic antennas are being set up. The old ones
were ten metres in diameter and that's not enough. The new ones
will be 18 metres in diameter," explains major Bjarke Steen Larsen
from the Danish Army's Maintenance Services which administers the
base area and equipment.
"They will be used for tasks like communicating with our units in
Kosovo and our observers in the Middle East."
Since the appropriation for the new installations and the
'antennas' was granted in 1998 - more than one year before the
armed forces moved into Kosovo in the spring of 1999 - the
installations must have another purpose. What else will they
be used for?
"I have to pass on that question. I don't really know anything
about the operational aspects."
Is the FE in charge of the operation?
"I really don't know, You got me there," says major Bjarke Steen
Larsen to Ekstra Bladet.
COPYRIGHT 1999: EKSTRA BLADET - COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
The FE, Denmark's military intelligence agency, expands. In 1998,
the FE received a grant of 9.5 million DKK (1.25 mill. USD) for new
antennas at the Skibsbylejren surveillance post near Hjørring,
Denmark. (Photo: Bo Elkjær)
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