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  2. ECHELON - Wikipedia

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    The European Parliament's Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System stated, "It seems likely, in view of the evidence and the consistent pattern of statements from a very wide range of individuals and organisations, including American sources, that its name is in fact ECHELON, although this is a relatively minor detail". [7]

  3. Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System

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    The second unusual feature of ECHELON is said to be that the system operates worldwide on the basis of cooperation proportionate to their capabilities among several states (the UK, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand), giving it an added value in comparison to national systems: the states participating in ECHELON (UKUSA states ...

  4. Mass surveillance in the United States - Wikipedia

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    By the 1990s the ECHELON system could intercept satellite transmissions, public switched telephone network (PSTN) communications (including most Internet traffic), and transmissions carried by microwave. The New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager provided a detailed description of ECHELON in his 1996 book Secret Power. [59]

  5. Signals intelligence by alliances, nations and industries

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    A first satellite ground station for the ECHELON collection program was built in 1971 at a military firing and training center near Yakima, Washington. The facility, which was codenamed JACKKNIFE, became fully operational in May 1973 and was connected with NSA headquarters at Fort Meade by a 75-baud secure teletype orderwire channel.

  6. Sokol Eshelon - Wikipedia

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    'Falcon-Echelon') is a Soviet/Russian laser weapon–based anti-satellite system. It is an airborne laser based on a Beriev A-60 aircraft. In 2012 it was reported that the project is back under development and is intended for the Russian Aerospace Defence Forces and later the Russian Aerospace Forces once completed.

  7. RAF Menwith Hill - Wikipedia

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    The site acts as a ground station for a number of satellites operated by the US National Reconnaissance Office, [5] on behalf of the NSA, with antennas contained in numerous distinctive white radomes, locally referred to as "the golf balls", and is alleged to be an element of the ECHELON system. [6]

  8. Origins of global surveillance - Wikipedia

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    The report to the European Parliament confirmed that this was a "global system for the interception of private and commercial communications." [34] Echelon spy network revealed Imagine a global spying network that can eavesdrop on every single phone call, fax or e-mail, anywhere on the planet. It sounds like science fiction, but it's true.

  9. List of government mass surveillance projects - Wikipedia

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    Central Monitoring System (CMS): A data collection system similar to the NSA's PRISM program. [14] It enables the Government of India to listen to phone conversations, intercept e-mails and text messages, monitor posts on social networking service and track searches on Google .