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| | ECHELON - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17) |
 | | ECHELON is the largest electronic spy network in history, run by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, capturing telephone calls, faxes and e-mails around the world. |
 | | Supporters stress that ECHELON is simply a method of sorting captured signals and is just one of the many arrows in theintelligence community's quiver, along with increasingly sophisticated bugging and communications interception techniques, satellite tracking, through-clothing scanning,automatic fingerprinting and recognition systems that can recognize genes, odours or retina patterns. |
 | | For example, in the months prior to the September 11attacks on the United States, signal intelligence produced by ECHELON developed considerable "chatter", or snippets of dialogue, that suggested some sort of attack was imminent.Analysts were unable to pin down the details of the attack, though, because operatives planning the attack relied largely onnon-electronic communications. |
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