.............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.html Sender: Globalist Agendas Debate and Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Mark A. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Echelon 'proved' Part one To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-UIDL: 6ff12fa64821a27b910583ec3e66c335 Status: U > 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 Archive is an independent, non-governmental research > institute and library at George Washington University, according to its Web > site, and has no relation to the National Security Agency.) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > More Infostructure in Wired News > Read more Politics -- from Wired News > Read more Technology -- from Wired News > Echelon 'Confirmation': Not > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > "[The documents] provide government confirmation of the Echelon program," > Richelson said. > > At the same time, Richelson said the documents indicate that it may not > have nearly the illicit scope and nature held by some of the more extreme > conspiracy theories regarding Echelon. > > "My research suggests that it's much more limited than the extreme cases > make out," he said. > > In fact, Richelson said he doubts the agency has overstepped any legal > bounds in executing the Echelon program. > > Intelligence watchdogs suspect that national agencies worldwide -- led by > the NSA and others -- are intercepting and handing off private > communications among citizens to each other. > > Richelson found the telling information in a mountain of documents he > obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. > > Some he obtained as recently as the last six months. Others he's had for > years. He published his findings on the Web for the first time last week. > > One of the documents Richelson highlights for its specific reference to > project Echelon pertains to the functions of naval security group activity > in Sugar Grove, West Virginia. > > Richelson said documents make clear that a program called Echelon is > associated with the Sugar Grove installation. > > Echelon has been described by privacy groups as a global surveillance > network that intercepts all kinds of communications for redistribution > among the primary partners in a decades-old U.K.-U.S. alliance that also > includes Australia and New Zealand. 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