-Caveat Lector- Notice: This post contains information which may be enlightening or confrontational. If the latter, consider deleting. Thank you. _______ Subj: [surfingtheapocalypse] News on ECHELON - from Scandinavia. Date: 01-03-13 12:40:35 EST Sometimes "outsiders" find out more about what is going on in the US than you will who are inside the place. This is THE great page in English about Echelon - www.ekstrabladet.dk/netdetect/echelon/default_en.iasp Just a couple of quotes to get you interested: Extra: "Echelon has singled out Europe as an enemy, and I saw a lot of messages about surveillance targets in Denmark," says the fourth Echelon agent to come forward in Ekstra Bladet. Extra: We knew what Greenpeace intended to do before they even realized it themselves, reveals former Echelon agent. Extra: Echelon's espionage was aimed at European companies and political heads of state says defected Canadian spy, Fred Stock. Extra: Ex-spy meets his victim - Ekstra Bladet sets up a meeting between former Echelon spy Fred Stock and the secretary-general for Denmark's Amnesty organization. Amnesty is concerned. Extra: Echelon targets your politicians, your companies and your interest-groups, says former NSA-agent Wayne Madsen to Ekstra Bladet. The following is my contribution to another forum in the US which was carried about a week ago: ------------------------------------------------------- ECHELON A couple of danish journalists have done a lot of research on the topic and have had some of it translated. Because of that, "Ekstrabladet" has been subject to NSA intruders who�ve prowled their computers at night - proof exists in the logs of their computer: c09.ncsc.mil and the internet-address 144.51.101.73. showed the intruder was located in the headquarters of NSA. If you go to: www.datashopper.dk/~boo/ you�ll also see a list of articles from the danish newspaper which have been translated (and distributed to 5 continents). The European parlament has published an extensive report on Echelon - and many europeans are quite upset about those �authorities� that spy on everybody else. Here follows a couple of interesting articles which I�ve fetched for you - and a few highlights to startit off. -------------------------------------------------- Highlights: * NSA and Echelon are by no means solely occupied with military intelligence, counter-espionage and the surveillance of presumed terrorists and other criminalelements. * In a long series of articles, Ekstra Bladet has documented that the system is being used for industrial espionage, and for monitoring and registering politically active persons and organizations, ranging from Greenpeace, Red Cross and Amnesty International to high-ranking politicians, ministers and government officials. * According to US law, the NSA is NOT allowed to monitor and spy on US citizens. * Ex-president Jimmy Carter became an object of interest to the spies when he started mediating in the Bosnia War in 1994 in attempts to end the war. And in 1993 the NSA established guidelines for how surveillance of the president's wife Hillary Clintons hould be handled. * Germany's national intelligence agency, Verfassungsschutz, openly warns its business and industry community against Echelon: industrial espionage constitutes not less than 62 percent - or two-thirds - of all espionage cases in Germany. 'Without filtering, Echelon monitors all e-mail, telephone, facsimile and telex communication sent via satellite around the world," writes the German intelligence agency. * The European Commission (which is not democratically elected, as opposed to the EU parlament) refuses to acknowledge the existence of Echelon. Commissioner for Industry, Errki Likkanen (who is a Bilderberger), rejected the notion that Echelon exists. * In the EU parliament two members collected more than 200 signatures for a commission of investigation that shall clear up Echelon's espionage against European countries. Chairman Fernando Gomez denounced Echelon 'to the extent that it exists', as he put it. * The CIA and the NSA - are the only Western intelligence services in a group that otherwise consists of Libyan, Iranian, Iraqi, Chinese and North Korean intelligence services - the very same spy agencies that the Americans themselves have singled out as the "main enemies" -------------------------------------------------- From: www.ekstrabladet.dk/visartikel.iasp?pageid=106434 Echelon monitors Hillary Clinton (4. aug 2000): New shocking documents reveal espionage aimed at the USA's first lady and former president Jimmy Carter. The USA's first lady, Hillary Clinton, has been singled out as an espionage target by the very same intelligence agency for which her husband, President Bill Clinton, is commander-in-chief. The NSA, the USA's intelligence service, is responsible for singling out Hillary Rodham Clinton as a surveillance target. This is stated in three, recently declassified top-secret documents that also reveal that former US president Jimmy Carter is also a designated target for the spies - and that all US politicians who participated in the 1996 US election campaign were being monitored by Echelon. The new documents describe in detail how surveillance reports for Carter, Clinton and said politicians should be handled in the system. The documents were prepared by the NSA, the US's intelligence agency, which is the leading partner in the international surveillance ring, aka Echelon. NSA is short for National Security Agency. With 38,613 employees at its headquarters in Fort Meade, USA, the agency is the senior partner nonpareil in the espionage cooperation with intelligence services from large parts of the Western world. Denmark's counterpart, the DDIS, has been cooperating with the US on surveillance since 1947. The newly released documents verify Ekstra Bladet's previous expos�s of the fact that the NSA and Echelon are by no means solely occupied with military intelligence, counter-espionage and the surveillance of presumed terrorists and other criminal elements. In a long series of articles, Ekstra Bladet has documented that the system is being used for industrial espionage, and for monitoring and registering politically active persons and organizations, ranging from Greenpeace and Amnesty International to high-ranking politicians, ministers and government officials. Three former NSA spies - Margaret Newsham, Fred Stock and Wayne Madsen, who have done their spying in Canada, the UK and the US - have previously informed Ekstra Bladet that politicians both in the US and Europe, including Denmark, are potential Echelon targets. The new revealing documents additionally confirm the allegations of the three agents. Hillary's phone receiver According to US law, the NSA is not allowed to monitor and spy on US citizens. Nevertheless, in 1993 the NSA established guidelines for how surveillance of the president's wife Hillary Clinton should be handled. Among other things, the document states that "Ms. Clinton may only be referred to in the reports by her title (currently a board member of the President's Council on the National Health Reform) without advance permission whenever this title is necessary for understanding or processing foreign items of information and whenever the information contained in the report concerns her official duties". The document continues, "As with all other leading officials in the state apparatus, reports on Ms. Clinton's private life and actions may only be publicized if they involve evidence of criminal action and only after review by the NSA's management and the OCG." (The OCG is the NSA's advisory office - ed.) Citizen Carter Ex-president Jimmy Carter became an object of interest to the spies when he started mediating in the Bosnia War in 1994. In this context, the NSA drafted a secret document on how to handle the surveillance of the ex-president: "Any report that either deals with his trips to Bosnia or his participation in attempts to end the war may only refer to him as a 'US citizen'. Only if former president Carter at some time in the future is given the status of an official envoy for the US government may he be identified as a 'former US president'", the document states, which is stamped 'Handle via comint channels only. Secret'. 'Comint' is a code word for surveillance. In the third document, dating from 1996, the NSA describes how the spies at the various listening posts shall handle intercepted phone conversations, e-mails, and telefaxes from the candidates in the US electioncampaign that same year. Both congressional and presidential elections were held in 1996. The new documents were unearthed by the EPIC, a civil rights organization that received the documents after a number of suits filed against the NSA. Currently, the EPIC has a new suit pending against the NSA. The EPIC is seeking official confirmation of the documents unearthed by Ekstra Bladet from a US military computer system last March. These documents single out the Red Cross, among others, as a surveillance target for the NSA and other intelligence agencies that use Echelon. -------------------------------------------- (4. apr 2000) GERMAN SPIES: ECHELON EXISTS For 18 months now, Germany's intelligence service has issued warnings against Echelon's industrialespionage. - "This is the confirmation of Echelon's existence, isn't it?" "Yes," says Mr. Dietrich from the German intelligence service, Verfassungsschutz. Dig that. Today, Ekstra Bladet can help the upcoming parliamentary commission that shall investigate Echelon. We can now document that the German intelligence service has been warning against Echelon's espionage for at least 18 months. - In Denmark, the Military Intelligence Service (FE) states that they know nothing more than what they read in the newspapers. - In Germany they tackle the situation alittle differently: Germany's national intelligence agency, Verfassungsschutz, openly warns its business and industry community against Echelon. Germany's intelligence agencies do more than just warn against the spying, however. They also instruct German industry in how to protect themselves against the illegal espionage network. Since June 1999, the German intelligence service has been recommending German companies to encrypt all important information, to prevent Echelon's spies from listening in. The entire process is very open. Verfassungsschutz has issued its warnings and protection guidelines as folders which they send to German industry. THIS IS A WARNING: The German intelligence service's descriptions of Echelon totally confirm Ekstra Bladets disclosures during the past six months in which defected spies have told about their work at these very same espionage bases shown on the revealing map. The warning issued by Verfassungsschutz is dated October 1998. It contains a graphic depiction of the 'Echelon global electronic intelligence system' showing a world map with several Echelon listening posts drawn in. The same listening posts that Ekstra Bladet has described in countless articles over the past six months. The drawing shows how the US, Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are systematically monitoring all communication around the world. 'Without filtering, Echelon monitors all e-mail, telephone, facsimile and telex communication sent via satellite around the world," writes theGerman intelligence agency, Verfassungsschutz. Ekstra Bladet spoke with Verfassungsschutz to confirm that their warning should be taken seriously: - Did you issue this same warning to German industry? "Yes. We did," says a spokesman for Verfassungsschutz who says his name is Mr. Dietrich. - The reason I am asking is to confirm whether this is your stationery. "Well, it is." - This is the confirmation of Echelon's existence,isn't it? "Yes," says Mr. Dietrich from the German intelligence service, Verfassungsschutz. FE KNOWS NOTHING Denmark's military intelligence service, FE, whistles a completely different tune. "All we know about Echelon's existence comes from so-called 'open sources' (press and media coverage -ed.). Like stories you have written and articles published by the foreign press." - What information have you passed on to Denmark's Minister of Defense? "We told him that we do not participate in Echelon and that the only information we have on it comes from 'open sources', like I said," says Michael Peytz from the FE. - At the risk of sounding brazen, one might ask whether the taxpayers are getting enough for their money if the intelligence service states that it knows nothing about an extensive system that Germany's Verfassungsschutz has known about for 18 months? "Yes, one could ask that question. But we don't know anything about it. And like I said, we have not participated in it nor do we know anything about it�," says Michael Peytz to Ekstra Bladet. - So you do not have any other knowledge of Echelon other than that what you have read in 'open sources'? "No we don't. That is correct." - Which is also what you have informed the Minister? "Yes, it is," says Michael Peytz. TWO-THIRDS INDUSTRIAL SPIES: According to Germany's Verfassungsschutz, Echelon's industrial espionage should be taken very seriously. In statistics compiled by Verfassungsschutz on espionage cases from 1997, industrial espionage constitutes not less than 62 percent - or two-thirds - of all espionage cases in Germany known to Verfassungsschutz. The report from the German intelligence service also states that the US espionage services behind Echelon - the CIA and the NSA - are the only Western intelligence services in a group that otherwise consists of Libyan, Iranian, Iraqi, Chinese and North Korean intelligence services - the very same spy agencies that the Americans themselves have singled out as the "main enemies" on several occasions since the end of the Cold War. Denmark's Prime Minister, Minister of Justice and Minister of Defense all declined to comment on the German information. The Confederation of Danish Industries has applied pressure on the Danish Government for a thorough account of the situation. Marianne Castenskiold, from the Confederation of Danish Industries, believes not only that Echelon should be investigated, but also that light should be shed on the role of Denmark's intelligence services. ECHELON IN THE EU: The European Commission refuses to acknowledge the existence of Echelon.In a report before the European Parliament, the Finnish Commissioner for Industry, Errki Likkanen, rejected the notion that Echelon exists. By contrast, he recited a statement, without personal comment, fromthe US State Department which asserted that the US does not commit industrial espionage against European countries. He also referred to a letter from Great Britain's EU ambassador, Stephen Wahl, who assertsthat British spies are only permitted to monitor telecommunications if national security is at stake. - "This is very embarrassing," says Jens-Peter Bonde,Denmark's June Movement, who like Pernille Frahm, Denmark's Socialist People's Party, had anticipated that the Commission would humble themselves and admit their knowledge of Echelon. The two parliament members have now collected more than 200 signatures for a commission of investigation that shall clear up Echelon's espionage against European countries. - "I thoroughly anticipate that the investigation will be adopted in the Parliament, next month at the latest," informs Bonde. He goes on to state that Germany's social democratic group will in all probability also support the demand for an investigation. There was an opening from the Council of Ministers,however. In a statement from the Parliament rostrum,Chairman Fernando Gomez denounced Echelon 'to the extent that it exists', as he put it. Original Verfassungsschutz chart can be found here at http://www.ekstrabladet.dk http://www1.ekstrabladet.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=44659 And here�s a couple of more technical references: cryptome.org/a51-crack.htm jya.com/gsm061088.htm - And that�s all for now, folks. >> __________ EcoNews Service - Always online for Ecology, Consciousness & Universe Exopolitics. Vancouver, BC V6M 1V8 EcoNews http://www.ecologynews.com/ Prague http://mujweb.cz/www/ecologynews/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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