Re: Australia Admits to Echelon

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

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Actually the Australian government DOES NOT admit that Echelon exists at
all; they admit that the DSD shares intelligence information with the US
and UK under the aegis of the UKUSA arrangement -- which IS the first
official admission of this anglo-saxon intelligence 'club', but slightly
different from admitting they tap everyone's phone. None of the official
communications on the matter mention Echelon or any other method of HOW
this SIGINT is gathered (probably half of it by covert penetration of
foreign countries by submarines, SAS and other related units anyway).

Search for the word 'Echelon' at http://sunday.ninemsn.com.au/ You will get
the details of a 6 month old story I posted the URL to last week when
someone last mentioned this BBC "scoop".

scot.

----- Original Message -----
From: BuzzBud <soppscum@online.no>
To: <hacktivism@tao.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 4:53 AM
Subject: Australia Admits to Echelon


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

Now we know Echelon realy exists.




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