I was reading Time magazine a while back and they had a Picture of a US base that they said was in Britain, and according to them, they said it had enough computers to process phone calls and emails all around the world. Has any one heard of a base like this, and what the name is?

Check out Menwith Hill in Yorkshire. It's a US 'listening' post. Google it.

[Edited on 18-2-2004 by benjj]

Yep Menwith Hill run by your friendly NSA.
Remember a few year back a guy called Mark Thomas took a ballon ride over the base. Was funny, the base didn't at the time have restricted airspace. might do now though.

I saw the movie "Enemy of the State" over the weekend, and there was one part where an ex-NSA agent was telling the main character about an underground base he worked at that had the capacity to tap everyone's phone line and single out key words that related to terrorism, in the seventies. That got me thinking about a base I had heard about that was simular to the description in the movie. That's probably what I was reading in the Magazine. Thanks a lot people.

Part of NSA Echelon System.

Originally posted by Slayer
I saw the movie "Enemy of the State" over the weekend, and there was one part where an ex-NSA agent was telling the main character about an underground base he worked at that had the capacity to tap everyone's phone line and single out key words that related to terrorism, in the seventies. That got me thinking about a base I had heard about that was simular to the description in the movie. That's probably what I was reading in the Magazine. Thanks a lot people.

The one you're thinking of is probably in Fort Meade, Maryland.

18 acres of mainframes.

Originally posted by Nerdling

Originally posted by Slayer
I saw the movie "Enemy of the State" over the weekend, and there was one part where an ex-NSA agent was telling the main character about an underground base he worked at that had the capacity to tap everyone's phone line and single out key words that related to terrorism, in the seventies. That got me thinking about a base I had heard about that was simular to the description in the movie. That's probably what I was reading in the Magazine. Thanks a lot people.

The one you're thinking of is probably in Fort Meade, Maryland.

18 acres of mainframes.

In the movie, the guy even said it was 18 acres. Sorry to be anal, but I was acually thinking about the british base i had read about - the mention of the base in the movie just sparked my memory. Thanks for the mention of the base in Maryland.

i live near a few bases, (oxfordshire), the one that fits your discription here is "Crouton". I knew it as r.a.f. crouton, but doing some work 14 yrs ago (carpenter) contracted to do some remedials it was full of americans,in fact a mini usa.. including the cars, fuel station usa style,fire hydrants, etc. the base is huuuuge, and deals with comunications. driving past near a local base "brize norton" you see fields of antenna and dishes,they have some big arse bunkers there too, there was no chance of me having a radio to listern to while working.

I lived on RAF greenham common for 5 years....{ive been to most bases and places in england}It was a great experience for me as a child to live in england..They were many "off limits" places on the base so I couldnt realy tell you anything about what was going on at the base except I know they had nuclear missles with the trucks and airplanes to use them.My step father was in charge of a bunch of those trucks that delievered a nuclear pay load,those trucks were bad ass.



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My step father was in the teritorials, till reasently, hes been posted all over europe but he said he was posted to greenham common about 8 yrs ago, long after the nukes where (said) taken out, apparently, they got some stuff there that need guarding still. he believes they still got nukes there underground, even after telling the activists and demonstrators this site was disarmed...

Let me just say that Fort Meade is one heavily guarded and patrolled area. I remember I took a wrong turn (god damn circle merges) and it took me to the Fort Meade gates. They took my license and everything because I just wanted to turn around.