Back in Time: The ECHELON Story

Title

Subject

Comms - Communications System

Description

This NSA newsletter article, reprinted from the internal publication Foreign Affairs Digest, gives a brief history of the communications intelligence system ECHELON, which targeted western communications satellites, and its interactions with European governmental oversight in the early 2000s.

Creator

National Security Agency - Foriegn Affairs Directorate

Publisher

The Intercept

Relation

Snowden

Language

Date:Created

2005-07-19

Source:Classification

Secret

Source:Redactions

Author's name is redacted

Report:Creator

Duncan Campbell

NumPages

CreatorOffice

NSA

Date:Leaked

2015-08-03

Distribution

FOUO

Surveillance Programs

ECHELON

Collection

Snowden Files

Citation

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