🚀 go-pugleaf

How chilling to think the military has set up
  a real-life domestic Orwellian spy apparatus.

  Used repeatedly for political purposes.


  ECHELON has almost no Military purpose left:
  Russia is practically part of NATO now.

  We must start dismantling ECHELON before it is too late.


  6/3/97: Barnes & Noble informs me his book is no longer
          available, and that my order is cancelled.


******************************************************************************

                               BAM-BAM-BAM
                               --- --- ---

Let's pause to take a look back at the first and still classic expose of NSA.

: The Puzzle Palace
:     Inside the National Security Agency,
:     America's most secret intelligence organization
: Author James Bamford, 1983 revision, ISBN 0-14-00.6748-5

Page numbers are from the above 1983 release.

Ready?


P171-172: David Kahn, in a transatlantic phone call, reluctantly agreed to
delete a handful of paragraphs dealing with the most sensitive subject of
all: NSA's relationship with its supersecret British partner, GCHQ. "The
two agencies exchange personnel on a temporary basis... A similar but much
smaller liaison program is maintained with Canada and Australia."
 
 
P399: After two years of compromising and negotiating, the BRUSA Agreement
was supplemented in 1947 by the five-power UKUSA Agreement, which,
according to one report, established the United States as a first party
to the treaty, and Britain, Canada, and Australia-New Zealand as second
parties.
 

P391: ...quite likely the most secret agreement ever entered into by the
English-speaking world. Signed in 1947 and known as the UKUSA Agreement,
it brought together under a single umbrella the SIGINT organizations of
the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zea