-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.htmlFrom: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [MC] ECHELON:Declassified documents confirm secret worldwide USsurveillance n Date: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:52 PM Friday, February 4 7:49 PM SGT Declassified documents confirm secret worldwide US surveillance network WASHINGTON, Feb 3 (AFP) - Declassified US official documents obtained by a non-governmental organization confirm the existence of a US-controlled network of worldwide surveillance called the Echelon. Created in the early 1980s, Echelon intercepted telephone, facsimile, and e-mail communications by means of land- and satellite-based interceptors which relayed the information on to the US Defense Department's National Security Agency (NSA), the documents showed. The documents were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by George Washington University's National Security Archive and published in the archive's website: www.gwu.edu/nsarchiv/. The world's most powerful intelligence agency with 38,000 employees, the NSA is twice the size of the US Central Intelligence Agency and has a budget to match, according to NSA researcher James Banford. It's task is to detect electronic espionage in the United States. Headed by US Air Force Lieutenant-General Michael Hayden, the NSA has never confirmed the existence of the Echelon network. An NSA official questioned by AFP Thursday declined to comment on the network. Two declassified documents mention Echelon by name specifically: one dated September 3, 1991, details the work of an electronic surveillance center at Sugar Grove, in western Virginia state, linked to the 544th Intelligence Group. The other document dated June 15, 1995 mentions the activation of Echelon units at several US Army and Air Force bases around the world, especially those of Elmendorf, Alaska, Yakima, Washington state, and others in western Virginia, Puerto Rico and Guam, in the Pacific. The US Congress opened a hearing on NSA activities in December to look into charges that the agency was eavesdropping on US citizens indirectly through British intelligence, by virtue of the UKUSA Alliance agreement signed in 1948. In 1998, the European Parliament also charged the NSA with violating the privacy of communications between European citizens, companies and governments. 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