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| | Cyber-Rights & Cyber-Liberties (UK) Echelon Watch pages |
 | | Yes, the Echelon system 'diverged' compared to its initial objectives, which were basically related to the context of the cold war and by expanding the conditions of the initial UKUSA pact among the five partners. |
 | | Echelon's existence has been discussed in security circles for almost a decade, but its existence was only brought to public attention in early 1997 by Covert Action Quarterly (CAQ), a quarterly intelligence newsletter, which revealed details of the global telecommunications surveillance system. |
 | | Echelon, a vast global network of electronic monitoring stations, was created in the 1970s as part of an intelligence-gathering agreement between the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand to monitor the activities of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. |
| www.cyber-rights.org /interception/echelon (10862 words) |
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