Noted intelligence author Jeffrey Richelson and the
National Security Archives have obtained some 17
declassified documents from the NSA tracing its history
and operations. One of them confirms for the first time
in an official document the existence of Echelon
(except for a thumbnail photo of the word in Duncan
Campbell's EuroParl report):
Richelson's introduction:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB23/index.html
The documents with annotations by Richelson:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB23/index2.html
The lie put out by DoD for years that Echelon was only
a fabrication of journalists is now shown to be what it was.
And there's more good stuff, including a letters of
Stewart Baker and others with a need to know and never
ever tell.
