Re: Echelon revealed by Aussies

["scotartt" <scot@systemx.autonomous.org>]

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This is not new information: it has been officially admitted for over 6
months.

http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/sun_cover2.asp?id=818
(from here click on Full Transscript to see all detail)
(this one also includes links to a letter from the DSD on the subject)

REPORTER:
It's a measure of the secrecy surrounding these spybases that this
statement to Sunday from the Director of DSD Martin Brady was the first
time anywhere in the world that the mere existence of the UKUSA alliance
has been officially acknowledged in public.

READ of BRADY STATEMENT:
"DSD does cooperate with counterpart signals intelligence organisations
overseas under the UKUSA relationship." END READ.

http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199905/msg00319.html

http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990523/news/news3.html2

regs
scot.


----- Original Message -----
From: Craig Silverman <cjsilver@openface.ca>
To: <hacktivism@tao.ca>
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 2:49 AM
Subject: Echelon revealed by Aussies


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It seems the Australian government has admitted that
Echelon exists.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/newsid_503000/503224.stm





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