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[FYI] Diana als ECHELON-Target?
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- Subject: [FYI] Diana als ECHELON-Target?
- From: Horns@t-online.de (Axel H. Horns)
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 12:06:22 +0100
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-12/12/062l-121298-idx
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NSA Admits to Holding Secret Information
on Princess Diana
By Vernon Loeb
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 12, 1998; Page A13
The National Security Agency has disclosed that U.S.
intelligence is holding 1,056 pages of classified
information about the late Princess Diana, inspiring
a flurry of sensational headlines this week across
London's tabloids.
[...]
Diana, the official insisted, was never a "target"
of the NSA's massive, worldwide electronic
eavesdropping infrastructure. The NSA system sucks
up millions of electronic signals from around the
world every hour, but only "targeted" communications
are actually analyzed and deciphered after a vast
array of supercomputers sort them out on the basis
of programmed search terms, such as "Saddam
Hussein."
[...]
Those documents, the NSA denial said, had been
classified top secret "because their disclosure
could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally
grave damage to the national security."
If unclassified and released, one U.S. intelligence
official explained, the damage would be caused not
by the information about Diana, but because the
documents would disclose "sources and methods" of
U.S. intelligence gathering.
c Copyright 1998 The Washington Post
Company
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Siehe auch:
http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/NATION/t000113478.1.html