ECHELON

Organizatorial Facts

Echelon is also called "Project 415"

Stations

Name	Location	Status	Coverage and Capabilities
Menwith Hill	Menwith Hill (GB)	Active
Bad Aibling	Bad Aibling (DE)	Active
Misawa Air Base	Misawa Air Base (JP)	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

• 05.07.2000 German Parliamanent Paper on Echelon

EU-Investigation

Date	Titel	Author/Organization	Comment
11.07.2001	Report on the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception systm)	European Parliament, Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System, Rapporteur: Gerhard Schmid

Web Resources

Date	Titel	Author/Organisation	Comment
01.02.1997	Exposing the Global Surveillance System	Nicky Hager
12.08.1988	Somebody´s listening	Duncan Campbell
09.06.2000	Signals intelligence and human rights: The Echelon Report	Duncan Campbell for the Electronic Privacy Center (EPIC)
	Echelon (Signals Intelligence)	US/english wikipedia	-