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(Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 22:43:06 +0100)
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The Argentinian newspaper Clarin reports that the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) has fired one third of its staff (ca 1000 people) and that the army has plans to reduce their intelligence staff with about 50%. Clarin also says that the army has decided to fire the 500 civilian agents that make up the notorious 601 Intelligence Battalion, dissolve the unit and sell off its downtown Buenos Aires headquarters.
The French protested very loudly when Echelon was revealed, but it now seems that they are as sneaky as their US/UK counterparts :-)
The Sunday Times reports that French spies listen in to British calls. "French intelligence is intercepting British businessmen's calls after investing millions in satellite technology for its listening stations.", the paper says.
Using at least eight sigint stations around the country, the DGSE listens in to GSM phones and radio and satellite signals. They aim at British and German oil companies, airlines, and defence firms.
Communications Week International quotes the French newspaper Le Point: "The French monitoring stations are each manned by around 6 officials, Le Point reports. Stations in New Caledonia, and the United Arab Emirates are used to capture satellite transmissions in space, as well as cover Asia and the Middle East. Listening posts in the Caribbean are used to intercept conversations in the United States. The monitoring station in French Guiana is likely used for launching the satellites, since the French space company Ariane has a launch base there."
This sounds like a "counter-fire" hoax. |
NewsMax.com recently published an interesting article about the Cuban/Russian relationship. Especially the part about the sigint facilities was interesting. Here a summary. Note that the 'Laurdez center' is known to us as 'Lourdes'.
NewsMax quotes the Russian Izvestia: '...a Russian radio-electronic center continues to operate on the island to this day.' According to a joint statement by the Russian defense and foreign ministries, the radio-electronic center's purpose is to track American missiles and maintain communications with Russian embassies in Latin America. Its most important task, however, is the overall monitoring of activities in the United States. Much of this is done from the Laurdez Center (Laurdez is a suburb of Havana). It is actually located at several points in both western and eastern parts of the island.
The stations on Cuba are of major strategic importance to Russia. Mr Yeltsin ordered his secret agents "to close the technology gap with the West and to make better use of industrial espionage."
The military intelligence agency GRU, who controls Laurdez, and the SVR have hundreds of agents and facilities on the island. SVR has its own field office and has offices in Russian embassies and consulates.
A quote from the article: "Controlled and operated by the G.R.U. (Russian Military Strategic Intelligence Agency), the Laurdez station maintains a radio-intelligence field over the Atlantic Ocean and collects cyber-intelligence data in close cooperation with Russian military spy satellites and naval and air force reconnaissance. The Laurdez station penetrates coded and ciphered radio-technical signals in the eastern part of the United States and tracks the patrol routes of US nuclear subs around the Atlantic. But the station is providing the Russian military also with extremely important economic data about the United States and other Atlantic Rim countries."
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