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                Date: 2000-02-25
                 
                 
                NZ: Besorgnis wegen ECHELON
                
                 
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      Die ECHELON-Hearings im EU-Parlament zeitigen die erwarteten  
Früchte: NZ ist bereits sehr besorgt, dass man - huch ! - gar in den  
Verdacht der Wirtschaftsspionage kommen könnte. 
 
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Echelon inquiry call threatens NZ surveillance network 
 
New Zealand is concerned a satellite base station forming part of a  
multinational electronic surveillance system could be exposed as  
part of a European inquiry. 
 
European parliamentarians have demanded a committee of inquiry be  
set up to probe allegations that the United States is using the so- 
called Echelon electronic surveillance system for industrial  
espionage in Europe. 
 
The Echelon network is said to include the Waihopai satellite station  
near Blenheim, New Zealand. New Zealand Prime Minister Helen  
Clark told Parliament yesterday that she was concerned it was under  
investigation. 
 
Waihopai intercepts and passes on phone, fax and e-mail  
communications from the Pacific region as part of an intelligence  
alliance that includes Australia, the United States, Britain, and  
Canada. 
 
Clark, who is Security Intelligence Service Minister, said she had  
been assured information collected by the Marlborough base was not  
being used for commercial purposes. 
 
"We have received assurance from intelligence partners that they  
don't either,'' she said. 
 
Echelon is the codename believed to have been given to a secret US  
Government project which would allow its National Security Agency  
to intercept and monitor all forms of electronic communication.  
 
Source 
http://www.it.fairfax.com.au/breaking/20000224/A36917-2000Feb24.html
                   
 
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published on: 2000-02-25 
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