[FYI] ECHELON

[Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)]

http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15864.html

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                     Spying on the Spies
                     by Niall McKay 

                     12:55 p.m.  27.Oct.98.PST
                     A Washington DC civil liberties organization will
                     send a detailed report on the National Security
                     Agency's top-secret spying network to members of
                     Congress later this week. 

                     The report, Echelon: America's Spy in the Sky,
                     details the known history and workings of the
                     agency's global electronic surveillance system.
                     The system is reportedly able to intercept,
                     record, and translate any electronic
                     communication -- such as telephone, data,
                     cellular, fax, email, telex -- sent throughout
                     the world. 

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