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ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network

In the greatest surveillance effort ever established, the US National Security Agency (NSA) has created a global spy system, codename ECHELON, which captures and analyzes virtually every phone call, fax, email and telex message sent anywhere in the world. ECHELON is controlled by the NSA and is operated in conjunction with the Government Communications Head Quarters (GCHQ) of England, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of Canada, the Australian Defense Security Directorate (DSD), and the General Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) of New Zealand. These organizations are bound together under a secret 1948 agreement, UKUSA, whose terms and text remain under wraps even today. 

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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: 1999-2004:Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System

This working document summarises the findings from the hearings in committee, private discussions with experts and systematic consideration of the available material by the rapporteur. The working document forms the nucleus of the future report. It reflects the stage reached in the hearings in mid-April. However, it will be possible to complete the report only after the visit to the USA. Firstly, it will then be possible to incorporate the results of that visit and of the last hearing of experts in Chapters 5 (evidence for the existence of a global interception system) and 10 (industrial espionage). Secondly, it is intended that any additional aspects which arise from the debate on this working document should also be dealt with in the report.  

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Inside Echelon

Since 1998, much has been written and spoken about the so-called Echelon system of international communications surveillance. Most of what has been written has been denied or ignored by US and European authorities. But much of what has been written has also been exaggerated or wrong. Amongst a sea of denials, obfuscations and errors, confusion has reigned. This review by Duncan Campbell, author of the European Parliament's 1999 "Interception Capabilities 2000" report1 , is intended to help clear up the confusion, to say what Echelon is (and isn't), where it came from and what it does. Echelon, or systems like it, will be with us a long time to come. 

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