ECHELON
From Buggedplanet.info
Organizatorial Facts
- Echelon has also been called "Project 415"
- The stations are run and operated mostly by US INSCOM
Stations
Name | Location | Operator | Status | Coverage and Capabilities | |
Menwith Hill | Menwith Hill, Yorkshire (UK) | Royal Airforce (RAF) GB | Active | ||
Bad Aibling | US INSCOM US | Bad Aibling (DE) | Active | ||
Darmstadt Griesheim | US INSCOM US | Darmstadt (DE) | Active | ||
Field Station Berlin Teufelsberg | US INSCOM US | Berlin (DE) | Closed | - | |
Misawa Air Base | Misawa Air Base (JP) | Misawa (JP) | PACAF (US) | Active | |
Acrotiri | Acrotiri (CY) | Active | |||
Guantánamo Bay | Guantanamo Bay (CU) | Active | |||
Pine Gap | Pine Gap (AU) | Active |
Codenames Used
Codename | Usage Period | Project Description | Previous Codename used | Successor Codename used |
ECHELON | PROJECT415 | |||
CHALET | VORTEX | |||
RUNWAY | ||||
SILKWORTH | Ground Processing Systems | |||
VORTEX | CHALET | MERCURY | ||
MERCURY | -1987 | VORTEX | ||
RHYOLITE | ||||
ARGUS | ||||
SIRE |
Documents from Parlamantery Investigations
German Parliament Investigation
EU-Investigation
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) |
Articles / Web Resources
Date | Source | Titel | Tags |
2002 | Daniel S. Poole | Free Congress Report: ECHELON: America's Secret Global Surveillance Network | |
09.06.2000 | Duncan Campbell for the Electronic Privacy Center (EPIC) | Signals intelligence and human rights: The Echelon Report | |
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 | |
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) |
Other Material
- Globales elektronisches Aufklärungssystem Echelon - Graphical Overview made by the Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Baden-Württemberg, DE GOV