John Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> responded:
>Your points are valid for the AIA document. However, in the
>Navy document, Number 9, image 3, there is the phrase,
>"Maintain and operate an ECHELON site."
I had missed that reference. A agree that the capitalization here is
consistent with a code nam
Your points are valid for the AIA document. However, in the
Navy document, Number 9, image 3, there is the phrase,
"Maintain and operate an ECHELON site."
Still, you may be right that none of this proves there is a program
by that name, and it may be only a way of indicating an activity
of a par
I appreciate all the hard work that went into into prying this
material loose from NSA, but there is a case to be made that
"Echelon" as use in these documents is being employed according to
its dictionary meaning "A subdivision of a military force" rather
than as a code word.
The text in the
Noted intelligence author Jeffrey Richelson and the
National Security Archives have obtained some 17
declassified documents from the NSA tracing its history
and operations. One of them confirms for the first time
in an official document the existence of Echelon
(except for a thumbnail photo o
