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(GCHQ) use each other's facilities
and personnel to spy on friend and foe alike and, more alarmingly, to
circumvent domestic laws and spy on their own populations.
[snip]

I either participated in or had direct knowledge of operations in which
CSE operated alone or joined with NSA or GCHQ to:

   o intercept communications in other countries from the confines of
     Canadian embassies around the world with the knowledge of the
     ambassador;

   o aid politicians, political parties, or factions in an allied country
     to gain partisan advantage

   o spy on its allies

   o spy on its own citizens; and

   o perform "favors" that helped its allies evade domestic laws against
     spying.
[snip]

Although I visited NSA headquarters at Fort Meade dozens of times, it was
at the Special Collection Services (SCS) at College Park, Maryland, that
I received my covert operation training and assignments.

This facility, set in suburban Washington, DC, dealt exclusively with
covert operations. [The facility was relocated closer to Fort Meade in
the early 1990s]

The first time I was driven there in 1978, I entered through a strip mall
and then through a d