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Published time: July 08, 2013 19:31
Edited time: July 09, 2013 17:19
Ex-NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward
Snowden has disclosed his first set of
documents outlining Australias role in NSA
surveillance programs, picking out four
facilities in the country that contribute heavilyto US spying.
The locations of dozens of the USs and associated countries signal
collection sites have been revealed by Snowden, who leaked classified
National Security Agency maps to US journalist Glenn Greenwald, which
were then published in the Brazilian newspaper O Globo.
The sites all play a role in the collection of data and interception of
internet traffic and telecommunications on a global level.
The Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station (ADSCS), South
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Image from maps.google.com)
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Australian centers involved in the NSAs data collection program,
codenamed X-Keyscore, include Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap in central
Australia and three Australian Signals Directorate facilities: the Shoal Bay
Receiving Station in the countrys north, the Australian Defence Satellite
Communications Facility on the west coast, and the naval communications
station HMAS Harman outside the capital, Canberra.
New Zealand also plays a role, with the Government Security
Communications Bureau facility at Waihopai, on the northern point of
South Island, also contributing to the program.
X-Keyscore is described as a national Intelligence collection missionsystemby US intelligence expert William Arkin, according to Australian
newspaper The Age. It processes all signals prior to being delivered to
various production linesthat deal with more specific issues including the
exploration of different types of data for close scrutiny.
The different subdivisions are entitled Nucleon (voice), Pinwale (video),
Mainway (call records) and Marina (internet records).
A spokesman for Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd declined to
comment on the revelatory map, saying that it was not governmentpractice to comment on intelligence matters, according to national
broadsheet The Australian.
Australia is one of the Five Eyes an alliance of intelligence-sharing
countries which include of the US, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and
New Zealand.
Warning sign on the road to Pine Gap (Image from wikipedia.org)
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When documents were published pertaining to the British signal
intelligence agency, GCHQs Tempora program, Snowden reportedly
commented that the other partners in the Five Eyes intelligence
sometimes go even further than the [National Security Agency] people
themselves.
If you send a data packet and if it makes its way through the UK, we will
get it. If you download anything, and the server is in the UK, then we get it,
he said.
In an interview published online last weekend in advance of its printing in
German magazine Der Speigel this week, Snowden argued that the NSA
was in bed with the Germans commenting that the organization of
intelligence gathering in countries involved with the organization is such
that political leaders are insulated from the backlash, going on to
denounce how grievously they're violating global privacy.
Germany reacted to the report on Monday, with German chancellorAngela Merkel's spokesman, Steffen Seibert, telling Reuters that the
Federal Intelligence Agencys (BND) cooperation with the NSA took place
within strict legal and judicial guidelines and is controlled by the competent
arliamentary committee.
The US and its affiliates have intelligence facilities distributed worldwide in
a variety of US embassies, consulates and military facilities. In an earlier
report by Der Spiegel, also based on revelations by Snowden, it was
revealed that the NSA bugged EU diplomatic offices and gained access to
EU internal computer networks.
Anonymous user 10.07.2013 13:56
KRudd says govt wont comment on intelligence issues?
funny they do so when it suits them for pR.
Anonymous user 10.07.2013 12:15
We badly need to utilize this info to permanently shut down this big
brother grid.