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|[[ACROTIRI STATION|Acrotiri]]||Acrotiri ([[CY]])||Active||
 
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Revision as of 16:17, 1 January 2012

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 STATION 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