So, you don't know whatever became of ASA? Who is doing the snooping these days, and how?
In the immortal words of Agent Fox Mulder, "The truth is out there!"
Read these files, and learn as much as they will let us know.
What's at those two websites is stored here on the files found in these two book icons.
Open these two books if you dare!
Go to the files I've stored in the books, or to the websites linked above, for as long as they are still up and running. I'm still looking for more reports to fill in the gaps between these two!
It's Echelon, and it's coming for you!
Europeans call it Echelon. They know about it. They fear it. But we Ami's don't fear it. Thank goodness, Echelon is managed by the United States! So, no, Echelon doesn't target the U.S. Something else is aimed at us. It has a different name. What is it? Tell me, and we will both know.
You may have heard the term Echelon before, but I don't think even we in the FSBVG community really know what it means.
Here's a start on understanding:
Photos of most UK and some major Commonwealth Field Stations.
and last but not least in this introduction,
The National Security Archive - A Non-Governmental Organization that collects and publishes declassified documents, culled from U.S. government and intelligence sources on mystery servers of George Washington University.
The US Intel Community, pub. 1989, ch. 8: SIGINT, all the ins and outs of it.
Bad News for Clinton's Layabout Spy Establishment
The Sunday Times of London, England
December 17 2000 UNITED STATES
US spies likely to move out of 'cushy' Europe
AS SECRETARY of state, Colin Powell is expected to recommend an overhaul of America's dealings abroad, including the diversion of spies from comfortable, European postings to more arduous tasks in countries such as Iraq, writes Matthew Campbell.
Powell, who succeeded Madeleine Albright, the first female occupant of the post, declined to be drawn into a discussion of foreign policy under the Bush administration. "There's only one foreign secretary at a time," he told The Sunday Times.
However, the reorganisation of intelligence-gathering is one of a series of recommendations he made with Condoleezza Rice, who is expected to become national security adviser, in a lengthy report for a Washington think tank.
"It is a mistaken notion to believe that the break-up of the Soviet bloc has rendered intelligence collection less necessary," says the report, Equipped for the Future, which is considered a blueprint for a shake-up of foreign policy management under George W Bush.
"Meeting today's priorities may require a redirected and more targeted deployment of intelligence officers outside of west European democracies, where intelligence reporting and State Department reporting are most likely to overlap."
Europe may welcome the prospect of spies being diverted elsewhere: relations with Washington have been strained by reports of American intelligence using a communications network called Echelon to eavesdrop on European businesses.