Echelon and Black Rooms

Echelon

Intercept Room

So we know that the US Government has been in bed with the telecommunications industry for quite a while now. Has anyone ever seen any documentation, FOIA docs, etc on the subject of Echelon?

Intercept Suite

I find all of this very interesting, and am wondering just how deep the rabbit hole goes.

[edit on 8-1-2009 by desertdreamer]

WOW....no responses at all......so i guess the rabbit hole goes pretty deep! Not even one person on ATS can talk about it! lol

If you haven't read it, the EU report on Echelon is quite interesting:

www.au.af.mil... (PDF)

whereas the existence of a global system for intercepting communications, operating by means of cooperation proportionate to their capabilities among the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand under the UKUSA Agreement, is no longer in doubt; whereas it seems likely, in view of the evidence and the consistent pattern of statements from a very wide range of individuals and organisations, including American sources, that its name is in fact ECHELON...

Edit: And here's an HTML link from cryptome (a site that is a wealth of information):
cryptome.info...


[edit on Jan 21st 2009 by Ian McLean]

Excellent links Ian, thanks! It will take a while to go through those.

Here's a great link... If I can I'll drop some others by...

I worked in this stuff...

Rgds

Great, appreciate that!