Secret Project- The Echelon- Part Two

A very important question is who determines the subject of wiretaps and who has access to this information. The report, entitled Options interceptions in 2000, claims that Americans use the system at their own discretion and do not acre about anything. The French government has accused the US of abusing Echelon to secure an advantage over companies they consider as rivals. James Woolsey, a former head of the CIA, only answered that they only neutralize the effects of the French bribery around the world. At the same time, they forgot that industrial espionage, that is enabled by Eshalon is not allowed anywhere in the world. Allies now feel threatened and raise their voice, but it does not touch NSA too much.

Echelon system collects data in many different ways. For the interception of satellite communications on Earth, it was built a whole network of massive radio antenna stations that are located in the United States, Italy, England, Turkey, New Zealand, Canada and Australiji. For monitoring communication in the big cities is used a large number of satellites that forwarding the data to the processing centers. The most important are located near Denver (USA), in the UK, Australia and Germany. As far as the Internet concerns, Echelon routinely intercepts each information. Even underwater cables are not safe from Eshelon. In 1982 was found spying device at the bottom of the ocean, which was attached to the main cable. It is believed that NSA asked this from the US Navy and the question is how many of them is left there. When none of the methods do not give the required results, the organization access to classic systems of spying. Their trained agents manually install sophisticated wiretapping equipment in the vicinity of selected target. After collecting raw information, the system selection using a dictionary by using the computer looks for a keyword or address. This greatly reduces the amount of information that can later processed and simultaneously prevents unauthorized users to focus on any individual case at this stage.

Everything that “Echelon” traps go immediately to Menvit Hill in England. Here is done reading and classifying of the material, and what is most interesting, it is immediately sent to Fort Meade, Maryland (USA), the headquarters NSA. Information that are not forwarded, captures and creates monstrous database that will be used when the time is come.