ECHELON EXISTS

Discovered the long tried test: the network of espionage it is cited in a document of the NSA

Official E': Echelon exists But its activity is less worse of how much it was believed

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROME - a test Was enough, one whichever, for sdoganare tetra a legend in one worrisome truth, and finally that test has arrived. Now it can be said without to pass for liars: Echelon exists. The total network in order to intercept every shape of communication electronic is not liquidabile like the ennesima stramberia of the cultori of the " theories of the conspiracy ". For before the time, in official documents of the National Security Agency, the American agency for the emergency, if ne trace is found: the term " Echelon plan " is cited in reference to a istallazione of naval intelligence. To make the published discovery online some days before - she has been Jeffrey Richelson, a investigator of the National Security Archive, been born an independent and not governmental association in George Washington University. Spulciando desecretati documents of recent the student is incappato in the explosive word: " the sheets supply a confirmation of governmental source of the Echelon program ", have declared.

But if it is true that the recovery constitutes a Victoria crushing for all those people who for a long time denounce the existence of this network secret in order to spy on the citizens of all the world, is also true that the entity of the discovery reorganizes some of those fears. " the outcome of my search suggests has declared in fact Richelson that draft of a limited plan much more than how much it had been assumed from the more extreme reconstructions ", adding then to nourish strong doubts " on the circumstance that the NSA has exceeded the own borders lawyers ". Echelon exists, insomma, but it is not said that it has made nothing badly.

One of the incartamenti which Richelson has had approached thanks the Freedom of Information Act mentions the term taboo care to one naval base to Sugar Grove, in West Virginia. This military installation would have been created in ossequio to an ancient alliance of intelligence between United States and Great Britain that would be promises to share dangerous information for their emergency. This pact - the embryo of Echelon - would have previewed sin from the beginning also many and rigid limitations in the use of the information of which it would have been come in possession: " the document emphasizes the specific investigator who one of the responsibilities of the commander of the center of Sugar Grove was that one of assicurarsi that privacy of the citizens the Americans adequately it was safeguarded ".

The Agency, contacted from the daily online " Wired ", than for first has given the news, has refused to comment in some way. The slid week, but, Michael Jobs, assistant manager of the informative systems to the NSA, it had reacted sdegnosamente to the illazione that the agency for which it worked could have spied on the citizens Americans: " our inner regulations prohibit it express and have always taken to these restrictions a lot seriously ".

And then? Who has taken care itself for a long time and with greater rigor of the vicissitude she does not have doubts in answering that the news opens one new, important page in this saga. At the same time the discovery does not reveal a lot on what, of fact, has happened (and continuous to happen, to dictates of more) in these years. All it leaves to think that with the ghosts of Echelon the accounts will have to be still made along.

(26 January 2000)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Echelon exists (but it is less worse of how much it was believed)

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