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	Government Communications Headquarters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		GCHQ provides the UK government and armed forces with signals intelligence as required under the guidance of the Joint Intelligence Committee in support of government policies.
		The Government Code and Cypher School (GCandCS) was founded in 1919, and was created by merging the wartime signals intelligence organisations of the Navy (Room 40) and the Army (MI1b).
		The ban was eventually lifted by the incoming Labour government in 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Government_Communications_Headquarters (734 words)

	washingtonpost.com: British Whistle-Blower Avoids Charges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The case of Katharine Gun, 29, who worked at the top-secret Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), had become a cause célèbre here for critics of the Iraq war who said she had blown the whistle on an illegal U.S. campaign to eavesdrop on the diplomatic exchanges of countries considering whether to support military action.
		The memo did not specify the kinds of assistance it was requesting, although both the NSA and Government Communications Headquarters specialize in intercepting and monitoring telephone calls, e-mails and other communications.
		Legal observers said it was unlikely that the government had dismissed the case in order to avoid divulging such details, suggesting the decision was probably based on a desire to protect Government Communications Headquarters from public scrutiny.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A6889-2004Feb25?language=printer (580 words)

	ECHELON - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Allegedly created to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its East Bloc allies, ECHELON is today believed to also search for hints of terrorist plots, drug-dealers' plans, and political and diplomatic intelligence.
		The CSE's headquarters, nicknamed "The Farm," is the Sir Leonard Tilley Building on Heron Road in the nation's capital of Ottawa, Ontario, and its main communications intercept site is located on an old armed-forces radio base in Leitrim, just south of Ottawa.
		In the UK, the government introduced the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act which gives authorities the power to demand that citizens hand over their encryption keys, without a judge-approved warrant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ECHELON (1538 words)

	Encyclopedia: Government Communications Headquarters
		The CSE badge The Communications Security Establishment or CSE is an intelligence agency of the Canadian government, charged with the duty of keeping track of foreign signals intelligence.
		The UKUSA Community is an alliance of English-speaking nations for the purpose of gathering intelligence via signals intelligence.
		Katharine Teresa Gun (born 1974) is a former employee of Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Government-Communications-Headquarters (2503 words)

	GCHQ- Government Communications HeadQuarters
		GCHQ- Government Communications Headquarters- is the United Kingdom's (and the European Union's) counterpart to the National Security Agency (NSA) in the United States.
		The jargon used to define this activity is known as signals and communications intelligence, that is, the collection, sifting, decryption, analysis and linguistic deciphering of international electronic communications.
		GCHQ, in collusion with other signals intelligence agencies in the United States (National Security Agency), Canada (Communications Security Establishment), Australia (Defense Signals Directorate) and New Zealand (Government Communications Security Bureau)- otherwise known as the Anglo-American/Anglo-Saxon UKUSA intelligence alliance- is believed to be responsible for the operation of a global surveillance network known as ECHELON.
	www.infowars.com /articles/bb/gchq_europes_most_powerful_intel_agency.htm (431 words)

	Government Communications Headquarters
		The predecessor to GCHQ was the Government Code and Cypher School (GCandCS), which was established by the Cabinet in 1919 both to study the methods of cipher communications used by foreign powers and to advise on the security of British codes and ciphers.
		Government Communications Headquarters is located in the pleasant environment of Cheltenham and the Cotswolds.
		Government Communications Headquarters is located in the elegant town of Cheltenham, surrounded by the picturesque Cotswolds.
	cryptome.quintessenz.at /mirror/gchq.htm (12013 words)

	BBC - Crime Fighters - GCHQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The thought of having your phone or internet communications intercepted by a government organisation might make you feel like Big Brother is watching, but unless you are involved in terrorist activities or plots to assassinate the prime minister, you have nothing to worry about, it's only the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
		GCHQ is the UK government department that is responsible for monitoring communications intelligence relevant to the UK, and as such, they are one of the leading global exponents of signals intelligence (sigint).
		The freedom to communicate freely across the world is an obvious benefit of modern society, but a great deal of the information sent by government and military organisations must be kept secure.
	www.bbc.co.uk /crime/fighters/gchq.shtml (880 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters - A1078355
		The Government Communications Headquarters is a part of the British intelligence community.
		Housing in Cheltenham was thin on the ground, so the government had to build housing for the staff being moved from Eastcote to Cheltenham; this was done between 1951 and 1953 after much wrangling with the local council.
		On the 25 January, 1984, the government announced changes to the conditions of service for GCHQ staff, these changes meant that they could no longer be a member of trade unions, and to compensate for their loss of statutory rights they would be paid £1000.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A1078355 (1756 words)

	Government Communications Headquarters
		I have stated in other articles, and in media communications in 1999 and 2000 (a matter of record) that GCHQ also intercepts internal telephone calls within various government buildings in London.
		Clare Short an ex Minister in the Blair Government, and she should know, confirmed that throughout the aggression on Iraq it was GCHQ that spied and intercepted any communication in the offices of the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
		Berlusconi (a government I openely support) and his company Finninvest were party to litigation in the High Court of Justice in London.
	www.lospettro.it /pagina755.htm (2109 words)

	FastStream - GCHQ Fast Stream
		Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), based in Cheltenham, is an intelligence and security organisation which works closely with the UK’s other intelligence agencies, the Secret Intelligence Service and the Security Service.
		We are looking for individuals who can demonstrate highly-developed communication and team-working skills, along with a combination of leadership potential, intellectual capacity, an enquiring mind, drive and determination and excellent interpersonal skills.
		You must be a British citizen and one of your parents must be a British citizen, or have substantial ties with the United Kingdom or, if deceased, have had such citizenship or ties before death.
	www.faststream.gov.uk /index.asp?txtNavID=81 (297 words)

	UK National Audit Office press notice - Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ): New Accommodation Programme
		During the 21 month gap between the appointment of the preferred bidder and contract signature in June 2000 the bid increased by 21%; most of this was negotiated in a competitive environment.
		In this case GCHQ failed to consider all the implications of the fact that it was relocating its entire business capability to a new building and that transition of its computer systems to the new premises was a major factor.
		He certifies the accounts of all Government departments and a wide range of other public sector bodies; and he has statutory authority to report to Parliament on the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which departments and other bodies have used their resources.
	www.nao.org.uk /pn/02-03/0203955.htm (592 words)

	Worldandnation: British translator arrested after leak of alleged U.S. note
		LONDON - Police charged a former British intelligence employee with breaking state secrecy laws Thursday, after she was linked to the disclosure of a memo in which U.S. officials allegedly asked for British help in eavesdropping on U.N. envoys.
		Katharine Gun, 29, who worked as a translator for the Government Communications Headquarters, was arrested in March after a British newspaper published the memo, which came as the United States still hoped to win U.N. backing for the war in Iraq.
		Britain's Government Communications Headquarters refuses to discuss the case, saying it is a matter for police.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/11/14/news_pf/Worldandnation/British_translator_ar.shtml (298 words)

	EPIC Diplomatic Communications Page
		Recent attention on the privacy of diplomatic communications and conversations were, once again, brought to light as a result of disclosures made by a British intelligence employee, former United Nations officials, and a former British Cabinet Minister concerning eavesdropping by the US National Security Agency and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
		Gun was accused of leaking to the British media a TOP SECRET/COMINT memorandum from NSA to GCHQ asking for its help in eavesdropping the communications of non-permanent members of the UN Security Council to determine their intentions on the Security Council resolution authorizing the war on Iraq.
		In communicating with the Government and the other missions and consulates of the sending State, wherever situated, the mission may employ all appropriate means, including diplomatic couriers and messages in code or cipher.
	www.epic.org /privacy/wiretap/diplomatic.html (447 words)

	GCHQ Government Communications Headquarters - UK Intelligence Agencies
		GCHQ provides Government Departments and Military Commands with signals intelligence (Sigint) in accordance with requirements laid upon it by the JIC (as for SIS) in support of HMG's security, defence, foreign and economic policies.
		GCHQ was established in 1946 as the post-War successor of the Government Code and Cipher School which had been the central Sigint organisation since 1919 and had made an outstanding contribution to the War effort at Bletchley Park, for example by decrypting German messages enciphered by the ENIGMA machine.
		This task is undertaken by the Communications Electronics Security Group of GCHQ, which works closely with their customers and industry, as well as with the Security Service, to ensure that official information in such systems is properly protected.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/world/uk/gchq.htm (807 words)

	New Director of UK's CESG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Andrew Saunders, who has been in charge of the electronic security organisation since March 1991, is retiring from both CESG and the Government service at the end of the year.
		His successor is Dr Richard Walton, who is currently with Government Communications Headquarters, the Cheltenham-based intelligence gathering operation which hosts CESG.
		The new director takes charge as the Government’s policies on such matters as public key infrastructure and official access to keys come under increasing scrutiny so Walton might find himself having to take an even more public role than his predecessor.
	cryptome.quintessenz.at /mirror/cesg-dc.htm (430 words)

	2003 04 29: A ‘Giant Leap Forward’ For U.K. On-line Government
		The National HM Government Root is the ultimate point of trust in security systems that authenticate and encrypt transmissions within government.
		As the final arbiter on matters of mutual trust, the National Root has to be constructed and operated in a highly assured manner to ensure that trust is not undermined.
		CESG is the information assurance arm of GCHQ and, as the national technical authority, advises government departments and agencies, the armed forces and industry on the security of their communications and information systems.
	www.entrust.com /news/files/04_29_03.htm (552 words)

	Government Code & Cypher School
		Many of the postwar communications intelligence organizations were civilian successors to the military COMINT organizations of World War I. Early in 1919 the British cabinet decided that the results obtained during the war by Room 40 and the Army's COMINT organization (MI-1b) justified the formation of a permanent peacetime civilian organization to perform such functions.
		A series of such ill-judged disclosures was made in 1920 by the British Government of the time, when it published a series of intercepted messages between the Soviet Government and their trade delegation to Britain, in an attempt to expose Soviet encouragement of subversion in British industry and the British Labour movement.
		The Germans were therefore obliged to rely on their transmitters for long-distance communications, and accordingly the navy placed interception stations along the east coast at Lowestoft, York, Murcar and at Lerwick in the Shetlands.
	members.aol.com /IRB1858/gccs.html (18807 words)

	Yorkshire CND - UN launches inquiry into American spying - 9/3/03
		The answer to that question is to be found not simply in the conscience of the individual intelligence officer, but in a wider conflict between the intelligence community on both sides of the Atlantic and their political masters.
		In the imposing glass-fronted riverside headquarters of MI6 in London, as in the Cheltenham headquarters of GCHQ, the several thousand employees of the Secret Intelligence Service stick to a view that some may regard as arcane in the individualism of the modern world.
		The United States Government has so far not responded to claims that their electronic spying organisation is bugging delegations at the United Nations Security Council as part of the Bush Administration's efforts to win a second resolution on Iraq.
	cndyorks.gn.apc.org /yspace/articles/unspyinginquiry.htm (2468 words)

	Design Build Network - Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Cheltenham
		The new headquarters has a computer hall the same size as the Royal Albert Hall, London, and an electric train that follows the basement service road that distributes goods to various locations on route.
		Gensler also planned ahead; due to the organisation's evolving requirements it was proposed that each of the three offices should adopt a universal layout and the same furniture, with pedestals and screens that slot together in numerous configurations.
		The architect worked closely with security specialists and the UK government to meet the latest anti-terrorism requirements for all new government buildings.
	www.designbuild-network.com /projects/gchq (1091 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Official Secrets -- February 2, 2004 \| Vol. 163, No. 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was a translator at Britain's secret eavesdropping agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ).
		This request would probably not have shocked most of the target diplomats the NSA is widely known to intercept communications even from allies — but Gun was outraged at what she considered an attempt to subvert the U.N. So she leaked the memo to the Observer newspaper, which printed it last March.
		Her legal team cites the precedent of Clive Ponting, a defense official who passed to an M.P. evidence that Margaret Thatcher's government had misled Parliament about details of when and where the Argentinian ship General Belgrano was sunk during the Falklands War.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,901040202-582283,00.html (310 words)

	Echelon: Legal, Ethical, Political, and Economic Issues of International Surveillance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It ensures that "no warrants shall be issued, but upon probable cause," extending to electronic communications (8).
		Under the UN Declaration and European Convention, privacy of communications is protected as a fundamental human right, but interception requirements that distinguish legitimate law enforcement activities and secret intelligence remain underdeveloped and unclear.
		High-ranking government officials who have direct access to the Echelon system are capable of passing on information.
	www.unesco.org /webworld/observatory/in_focus/290302_echelon.html (1121 words)

	UK Government Communications Headquarters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Over the course of the next several hours, communications traffic about the UFO involved not only the Skegness police, but Boston police, the crew of the oil tanker Conocoast, civil aircraft, RAF Neatishead, RAF Kinloss, RAF Northwood, RAF Waddington, Anglian Radar, Claxby Radar, London Northwood Radar, the Ministry of Defense at Whitehall, and GCHQ.
		Under any other normal circumstance, Robin would have been happy to glean information about the incident from local groups operating in the area, but a casual remark by his acquaintance changed all of that.
		Pope's successor, Miss K. Philpott wrote: 'At the time of the incident, it was determined that there was no evidence tha the integrity of the UK Air Defence Region had been compromised.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /pages/gchq.html (954 words)

	Government Agency Topics on AboveTopSecret.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The secret "shadow" government is the large organisational network which operates alongside the officially elected and appointed government of the United States of America.
		This government organization has more power than the President of the United States or the Congress, it has the power to suspend laws, move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a warrant and hold them without trial, it can seize property, food supplies, transportation systems, and can suspend the Constitution.
		As E.G.&G. has been a contractor on some of the Government's most secret projects (including the secret Groom Lake "Area 51" base in Nevada), one may be able to venture a guess at what has been transpiring in government "Black" programs from the products and services E.G.&G. now markets.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /pages/agencies.html (733 words)

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