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[FYI] Canada a key snooper in huge spy network
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Sunday May 23, 1999
FROM THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
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Canada a key snooper in huge spy
network
Report says alliance is able to intercept
nearly any message
Jim Bronskill
The Ottawa Citizen
Canada belongs to a global spy
network capable of snooping
on virtually every type of
communication, from
long-distance phone calls to
Internet e-mail, says a newly
published study.
The detailed report, prepared
for the European Parliament,
warns that the electronic
intelligence agencies of the
world's major English-speaking
countries increasingly use the
information they collect to gain an upper hand on
economic rivals.
It concludes the surveillance web controlled by the
UKUSA alliance -- Canada, the United States, Britain,
Australia and New Zealand -- has evolved into a
highly advanced network that automatically sifts
through the vast bulk of the messages that traverse
the globe daily.
"Comprehensive systems exist to access, intercept and
process every important form of communications, with
few exceptions," says the report, by Edinburgh-based
researcher Duncan Campbell, a longtime observer of
the intelligence world.
Canada is represented in the alliance by the
Communications Security Establishment, an
ultra-secret wing of the Defence Department with
headquarters in an Ottawa office building.
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