Management Summary

Echelon has been used as the name of a worldwide COMINT computer network used by the NSA

Echelon has been called "Project 415" by Lockheed who installed / operated parts of the system

The stations are run and operated mostly by US INSCOM but also by the partners of the UKUSA Agreement

Stations

Name	Location	Operator	Status	Coverage and Capabilities
Menwith Hill	Menwith Hill, Yorkshire (UK)	Royal Airforce (RAF) GB	Active	SIGINT Satelite Signals Reception
Bad Aibling	Bad Aibling (DE)	US INSCOM (US)	Active	SIGINT Satelite Signals Reception
Darmstadt Griesheim	Darmstadt (DE)	US INSCOM (US)	Active
Field Station Berlin Teufelsberg	Berlin (DE)	US INSCOM (US)	Closed	-
Misawa Air Base	Misawa (JP)	PACAF (US)	Active
Acrotiri	Acrotiri (CY)	Royal Airforce (RAF) (UK)	Active
Guantánamo Bay	Guantanamo Bay (CU)		Active
Pine Gap	Pine Gap (AU)		Active	SIGINT Satelite Signals Reception

Codename	Usage Period	Project Description	Previous Codename used	Successor Codename used
ECHELON		PROJECT415
CHALET	10.07.1978 - 29.06.1979	SIGINT Satellite Type	(this was the original codename)	VORTEX
VORTEX	30.06.1979 -	SIGINT Satellite Type	CHALET	MERCURY
MERCURY	-1987	SIGINT Satellite Type	VORTEX
RUNWAY
SILKWORTH		Ground Processing Systems
RHYOLITE
ARGUS
SIRE

Date	Source	Titel	Tags
11.07.2001	European Parliament, Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System, Rapporteur: Gerhard Schmid	Report on the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system)
22.03.2001	European Parliament, Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System	Working papers, meeting 22. March 2001 (19.2 Mb)
22.01.2001	European Parliament, Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System	Working papers, meeting 22. January 2001 (11.6 Mb)
28.11.2000	European Parliament, Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System	Working papers, meeting 28. November 2000 (8.9 Mb)
22.11.2000	European Parliament, Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System	Working papers, meeting 22. November 2000 (5.5 Mb)
20.11.2000	European Parliament, Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System	Working papers, meeting 20. November 2000 (13 Mb)

Date	Source	Titel	Tags
21.12.2005	cryptome.org	Signals intelligence and human rights: the ECHELON report	NSA-US ECHELON
2002	Daniel S. Poole	Free Congress Report: ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network
25.07.2000	telepolis.de	Duncan Campbell: Inside Echelon - The history, structure und function of the global surveillance system known as Echelon	ECHELON
09.06.2000	Duncan Campbell for the Electronic Privacy Center (EPIC)	Signals intelligence and human rights: The Echelon Report
27.12.1999	cryptome.org	HITLER WOULD HAVE LOVED IT	ECHELON SIGINT DK
26.12.1999	cryptome.org	HÆKKERUP: MANY ARE MONITORING US	ECHELON SIGINT DK
23.12.1999	cryptome.org	NEW EXPOSURE ON ECHELON - Sigint/Surveillance/Denmark	ECHELON SIGINT DK
21.12.1999	cryptome.org	INTERVIEW: ECHELON WAS MY BABY - Sigint/surveillance/Denmark	ECHELON SIGINT DK
31.05.1999	businessweek	THEY’RE LISTENING TO YOUR CALLS: Echelon monitors phones, E-mail, and radio signals	ECHELON
12.08.1988	Duncan Campbell	Somebody´s listening
01.02.1997	Nicky Hager	Exposing the Global Surveillance System
29.04.1989	cryptome.org	Jeffrey T. Richelson: The U.S. Intelligence Community	US SIGINT

Source	Title	Tags
bibliotecapleyades.net	La Red Echelon	ECHELON
FAS	FAS Collection on ECHELON	ECHELON
Telepolis	Telepolis Themenseite (Sammlung) zu Echelon (german)
Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties	Echelon Watch Pages
US/english wikipedia	Echelon (Signals Intelligence)	-
Kai Raven	ECHELON: Das globale Abhörnetzwerk (german)

Globales elektronisches Aufklärungssystem Echelon - Graphical Overview made by the Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Baden-Württemberg, DE GOV