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                Date: 2000-02-26
                 
                 
                Die Frau, die ECHELON verriet
                
                 
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      Nach seinem Auftritt vor dem EU-Parlament gibt Duncan  
Campbell jetzt den Namen jener ehemaligen NSA- 
Mitarbeiterin bekannt, auf deren Information der erste Artikel  
über den Moloch ECHELON aus dem Jahr 1988 basiert. 
 
Frau Newsham hat gesprochen, weil sie die Abhörerei nicht  
mehr mit ihrem Gewissen vereinbaren konnte. Damit hatte  
sie sich aus der sogenannten "Intelligence Community"  
ausgeschlossen, alle sozialen Kontakte waren weg, der  
Anschluß an die zivile Gesellschaft fiel ihr zumindest schwer.  
Bo Elkjaer [auch auf dieser Liste], der sie kürzlich besucht  
hat, beschreibt sie als schwer krank. 
 
Wir leiten gerne [in Englisch abgefasste] Post an Peg  
Newsham weiter, falls sich jemand bei ihr für ihren Mut  
bedanken will.  
 
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Making history: the original source for the 1988 first Echelon  
report steps forward  
 
Duncan Campbell  
 
London, Friday 25 February, 2000  
 
In the circumstances of the extensive worldwide political and  
media attention that is currently focussed on the Echelon  
communications surveillance network, I wish to pay tribute to  
the person who first alerted the United States legislature and  
the world to the existence of Echelon.  
 
Following the presentation of my report on Echelon and  
related Sigint systems to the European Parliament in  
Brussels earlier this week, my principal original source has  
said that she may be identified.  
 
I published the first-ever report about Echelon in the British  
political weekly New Statesman on 12 August 1988. The  
information about Echelon in that report came principally from  
Margaret Newsham, a computer systems manager who is  
now in retirement.  
 
Margaret Newsham, better known as Peg, was formerly  
employed by a contractor at the National Security Agency  
Field Station at Menwith Hill, Yorkshire, England. From  
August 1978 onwards, she worked at Menwith Hill as a  
software system support co-ordinator. In this capacity, she  
helped managed a number of Sigint computer databases,  
including "Echelon 2". She and others also helped establish  
the "Silkworth" system at Menwith Hill. Silkworth is the  
ground processing system for the series of signals  
intelligence satellites initially known as Chalet, Vortex and  
Mercury.  
 
Later, on transferring to Sunnyvale, California, Peg Newsham  
worked for Lockheed Space and Missiles Corporation. In that  
capacity, she became aware of the plans drawn up for the  
massive expansion of the Echelon network, a project  
identified internally as P-415.  
 
During her employment by Lockheed, she became  
concerned about corruption, fraud and abuse within the  
organisations planning and operating electronic surveillance  
systems such as Echelon. She drew these matters to the  
attention of the House Permanent Select Committee on  
Intelligence early in 1988.  
 
While working at Menwith Hill, she witnessed the interception  
of a telephone call made by US Senator Strom Thurmond.  
Although this incident was reported to the House Committee,  
no substantive investigation took place, and no report was  
made to Congress. 
 
Full text 
http://cryptome.org/echelon-mndc.htm
                   
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published on: 2000-02-26 
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