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ECHELON = UKUSACH?

[Ob man Schmidt-Enboom hier trauen kann? Er ist ja als Verfasser eines BND-Buches bekannt. Ob es serioeser als U.U. ist, weiss ich nicht --AHH]

http://jya.com/ch-echelon.htm


9 February 1999. Thanks to TAP. Source: http://www.sonntagszeitung.ch/sz05/s7-1848.HTM

English translation by Babelfish/JYA. Original German follows.

SonntagsZeitung, 8 February 1999

Swiss intelligence service denies participation in US espionage project

BERNE - Secret service experts assume that Switzerland with its satellite reconnaissance system will participate in the global US monitor Echelon. Berne denies it categorically.

For German secret service expert Erich Schmidt Eenboom it is clear: "With this system Switzerland commits itself to Echelon." Echelon is an espionage project of the USA, a part of its presumed annual budget of 26 billion dollar. With eavesdropping stations around the world, similarly the superpower as well as allies plan an increase of satellite-based communication monitors in Switzerland.

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