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echelonnoun [ C ] uk
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a particular level or group of people within an organization such as an army or company: highest echelon These salary increases will affect only the highest echelons of local government.upper echelon the upper echelons of society
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specialized a special arrangement of soldiers, aircraft, or ships
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echelon | Business English
echelonnoun [ C, often plural ]
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a rank or position within an organization, company, or profession: in the upper/top/higher echelons of sth Politicians are often hired by private equity for the connections and skills gained while working in the upper echelons of government.at the upper/top echelon The job allows you a glimpse into day-to-day goings-on at the company's top echelon. Most believe it is this juggling act that keeps women in the lower echelons of the legal profession.
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Discussions took place at the upper echelons of the administration over how to ' provoke ' men to ' volunteer ' as porters.
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They focused on working with government or, where possible, ' colonizing ' the echelons of the state that had immediate authority over the region as a whole.
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Attaching outsiders to the higher echelons of the public administration.
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They also feel excluded from the higher echelons of political and administrative power, as well as social privilege, by virtue of their relative disadvantage in matters of education and resources.
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At least for a woman and her family, these new barriers to remarriage in the upper echelons of the working class are an obvious disincentive to divorce.
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The implications for the whole post-war pattern of politics seemed serious to many at the conference, especially those from the upper echelons of the government and academia.
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Not bad for a new discipline, but we would prefer a fair representation of women in the highest echelons in all discipline, not just women's studies.
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I thought that one of the ideas of this reorganisation was that we were going to cut out some of these higher echelons.
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Enormous talent is being used and is waiting to be used in our management echelons.
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Not all have reached such high echelons of management, but they have been recruited through the apprenticeship system that this country has built up.
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In certain cases, there has been a continual reflection on members of certain professions in the higher echelons of the white-collar workers.
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There are some very good golden handshakes in the higher echelons of the private sector.
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What kind of drugs were used and were they approved by those in the higher echelons of the medical profession?
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Such money goes not only to the top echelons.
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There was considerable attraction in the new proposals and in being promoted out of the wards to higher echelons of administration.
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in Chinese (Traditional)
（軍隊、企業等組織的）等級，階層，某一等級（或階層）的所有人, （士兵、飛機或船隻的）梯形編隊，梯隊…
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（军队、企业等组织的）等级，阶层，某一等级（或阶层）的所有人, （士兵、飞机或船只的）梯形编队，梯队…
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nivel…
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escalão…
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echelon
1 of 2
noun
ech·e·lon
ˈe-shə-ˌlän
Synonyms of echelon
1
a(1)
: an arrangement of a body of troops with its units each somewhat to the left or right of the one in the rear like a series of steps
(2)
: a formation of units or individuals resembling such an echelon
geese flying in echelon
(3)
: a flight formation in which each airplane flies at a certain elevation above or below and at a certain distance behind and to the right or left of the airplane ahead
b
: any of several military units in echelon formation
also
: any unit or group acting in a disciplined or organized manner
served in a combat echelon
2
a
: one of a series of levels or grades in an organization or field of activity
involved employees at every echelon
b
: a group of individuals at a particular level or grade in an organization or field of activity
the upper echelons of management
echelon
2 of 2
verb
echeloned; echeloning; echelons
transitive verb
: to form or arrange in an echelon
intransitive verb
: to take position in an echelon
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Echelon comes from scala, a Latin word meaning "ladder" that is also the source of French eschelon, meaning "rung of a ladder." Over time, the French word came to mean "step," "grade," or "level." English borrowed the word and upped its meaning to "a level or category within an organization or group of people."
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degree
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Examples of echelon in a Sentence
Noun
the lower echelons of the bureaucracy
We heard stories of corruption in the upper echelons of the firm.
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Written in her witty and conversational style, the book chronicles her early upbringing in New York City to her rise through Manhattan’s social circles and eventual ascent into the upper echelons of fashion.
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Gosling is the unmovable center of gravity in these films, leaning into the kind of star image that had worked for his Blade Runner scene partner, Harrison Ford, but made little use of the supporting charm and dexterity that put Gosling in his own echelon of present-day actors.
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Young Casanova was able to promote himself into the upper echelons of Venetian society through dissembling, trickery, and bluff.
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Soon, perhaps as early as Friday night in Portland, the Pacers will be able to start two All-Stars and surround them with a supporting cast good enough to at least make the teams in the highest echelon of the Eastern Conference nervous.
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The White House’s subterranean Situation Room was being renovated, so the top echelons of the State, Defense and Treasury departments, along with the CIA, gathered in a secure conference room in the adjacent Eisenhower Executive Office Building.
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Instructed to fear the impoverish residents of the nearby town, these spoiled boys represent the future of the most powerful echelons of Mexican society.
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But at the top echelons of the Israeli and American governments, officials focused on putting together a series of financial sanctions against Iran.
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Etymology
Noun
French échelon, literally, rung of a ladder, from Old French eschelon, from eschele ladder, from Late Latin scala
First Known Use
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1796, in the meaning defined at sense 1a(1) Verb
circa 1860, in the meaning defined at transitive sense
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echelon
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ech·e·lon
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: a formation of units (as troops or airplanes) resembling a series of steps
also
: a unit in such a formation
2
: one of a series of levels especially of authority
involved officials at every echelon
also
: the people who are at such a level
the upper echelons of the government
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A radome at RAF Menwith Hill, a site with satellite uplink capabilities believed to be used by ECHELON
RAF Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire, England
Misawa Air Base Security Operations Center (MSOC), Aomori Prefecture, Japan
ECHELON, originally a secret government code name, is a surveillance program (signals intelligence/SIGINT collection and analysis network) operated by the five signatory states to the UKUSA Security Agreement:[1] Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, also known as the Five Eyes.[2][3][4]
Created in the late 1960s to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies during the Cold War, the ECHELON project became formally established in 1971.[5][6] By the end of the 20th century, it had greatly expanded.[7]
Organization[edit]
Map of the UKUSA Agreement countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States
The UKUSA intelligence community was assessed by the European Parliament (EP) in 2000 to include the signals intelligence agencies of each of the member states:
the Government Communications Headquarters of the United Kingdom,
the National Security Agency of the United States,
the Communications Security Establishment of Canada,
the Australian Signals Directorate of Australia, and
the Government Communications Security Bureau of New Zealand.
List of intercept stations according to Edward Snowden's documents
Operated by the United States
Country
Location
Operator(s)
Codename
Brazil
Brasília, Federal District
CIA[8]
NSA[8]
SCS
Germany
Bad Aibling, Bavaria
BND[9]
NSA[9]
GARLICK[10]
India
New Delhi
CIA[11]
NSA[11]
SCS
Japan
Misawa, Tōhoku region
US Air Force[12]
NSA[12]
LADYLOVE[13]
Thailand
Bangkok (?)
CIA (?)
NSA (?)
LEMONWOOD[14]
United Kingdom
Menwith Hill, Harrogate
NSA[15]* GCHQ
MOONPENNY[14]
United States
Sugar Grove, West Virginia
NSA[16]
TIMBERLINE[17]
Yakima, Washington
NSA[18]
JACKKNIFE[14]
Sábana Seca, Puerto Rico
NSA[19]
CORALINE[14]
Operated Jointly with the United States (2nd party)
Country
Location
Contributor(s)
Codename
Australia
Geraldton, WA
ASD[12]
STELLAR[12]
Darwin, NT
ASD[12]
SHOAL BAY[12]
New Zealand
Waihopai, Blenheim
GCSB[12]
IRONSAND[12]
United Kingdom
Bude, Cornwall
GCHQ[20]
NSA[20]
CARBOY[17]
Cyprus
Ayios Nikolaos Station
GCHQ[20]
NSA[20]
SOUNDER[21]
Kenya
Nairobi
GCHQ[12]
SCAPEL[14]
Oman
Seeb, Muscat
GCHQ[12]
SNICK[14]
Reporting and disclosures[edit]
Public disclosures (1972–2000)[edit]
Former NSA analyst Perry Fellwock, under the pseudonym Winslow Peck, first blew the whistle on ECHELON to Ramparts in 1972,[22] when he revealed the existence of a global network of listening posts and told of his experiences working there. He also revealed the existence of nuclear weapons in Israel in 1972, the widespread involvement of CIA and NSA personnel in drugs and human smuggling, and CIA operatives leading Nationalist Chinese (Taiwan) commandos in burning villages inside PRC borders.[23]
In 1982, James Bamford, investigative journalist and author wrote The Puzzle Palace, an in-depth look inside the workings of the NSA, then a super-secret agency, and the massive eavesdropping operation under the codename "SHAMROCK". The NSA has used many codenames, and SHAMROCK was the codename used for ECHELON prior to 1975.[24][25]
In 1988, Margaret Newsham, a Lockheed employee under NSA contract, disclosed the ECHELON surveillance system to members of Congress. Newsham told a member of the US Congress that the telephone calls of Strom Thurmond, a Republican US senator, were being collected by the NSA. Congressional investigators determined that "targeting of US political figures would not occur by accident, but was designed into the system from the start."[26]
Also in 1988, an article titled "Somebody's Listening", written by investigative journalist Duncan Campbell in the New Statesman, described the signals intelligence gathering activities of a program code-named "ECHELON".[26] James Bamford describes the system as the software controlling the collection and distribution of civilian telecommunications traffic conveyed using communication satellites, with the collection being undertaken by ground stations located in the footprint of the downlink leg.[27]
A detailed description of ECHELON was provided by the New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager in his 1996 book Secret Power: New Zealand's Role in the International Spy Network.[28] Two years later, Hager's book was cited by the European Parliament in a report titled "An Appraisal of the Technology of Political Control" (PE 168.184).[29]
In March 1999, for the first time in history, the Australian government admitted that news reports about the top secret UKUSA Agreement were true.[30] Martin Brady, the director of Australia's Defence Signals Directorate (DSD, now known as Australian Signals Directorate, or ASD) told the Australian broadcasting channel Nine Network that the DSD "does co-operate with counterpart signals intelligence organisations overseas under the UKUSA relationship."[31]
In 2000, James Woolsey, the former Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, confirmed that US intelligence uses interception systems and keyword searches to monitor European businesses.[32]
Lawmakers in the United States feared that the ECHELON system could be used to monitor US citizens.[33] According to The New York Times, the ECHELON system has been "shrouded in such secrecy that its very existence has been difficult to prove."[33] Critics said the ECHELON system emerged from the Cold War as a "Big Brother without a cause".[34]
European Parliament investigation (2000–2001)[edit]
The New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager, who testified before the European Parliament and provided specific details about the ECHELON surveillance system[35]
The program's capabilities and political implications were investigated by a committee of the European Parliament during 2000 and 2001 with a report published in 2001.[7] In July 2000, the Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System was established by the European parliament to investigate the surveillance network.[36] It was chaired by the Portuguese politician Carlos Coelho, who was in charge of supervising investigations throughout 2000 and 2001.
In May 2001, as the committee finalised its report on the ECHELON system, a delegation travelled to Washington, D.C. to attend meetings with US officials from the following agencies and departments:
US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)[37]
US Department of Commerce (DOC)[37]
US National Security Agency (NSA)[37]
All meetings were cancelled by the US government and the committee was forced to end its trip prematurely.[37] According to a BBC correspondent in May 2001, "The US Government still refuses to admit that Echelon even exists."[5]
In July 2001, the Committee released its final report.[38] The EP report concluded that it seemed likely that ECHELON is a method of sorting captured signal traffic, rather than a comprehensive analysis tool.[7] On 5 September 2001, the European parliament voted to accept the report.[39]
The European Parliament stated in its report that the term ECHELON is used in a number of contexts, but that the evidence presented indicates that it was the name for a signals intelligence collection system.[7] The report concludes that, on the basis of information presented, ECHELON was capable of interception and content inspection of telephone calls, fax, e-mail and other data traffic globally through the interception of communication bearers including satellite transmission, public switched telephone networks (which once carried most Internet traffic), and microwave links.[7]
Confirmation of ECHELON (2015)[edit]
Two internal NSA newsletters from January 2011 and July 2012, published as part of Edward Snowden's leaks by the website The Intercept on 3 August 2015, for the first time confirmed that NSA used the code word ECHELON and provided some details about the scope of the program: ECHELON was part of an umbrella program with the code name FROSTING, which was established by the NSA in 1966 to collect and process data from communications satellites. FROSTING had two sub-programs:[40]
TRANSIENT: for intercepting Soviet satellite transmissions
ECHELON: for intercepting Intelsat satellite transmissions
The European Parliament's Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System stated, "It seems likely, in view of the evidence and the consistent pattern of statements from a very wide range of individuals and organisations, including American sources, that its name is in fact ECHELON, although this is a relatively minor detail".[7] The US intelligence community uses many code names (see, for example, CIA cryptonym).
Former NSA employee Margaret Newsham said that she worked on the configuration and installation of software that makes up the ECHELON system while employed at Lockheed Martin, from 1974 to 1984 in Sunnyvale, California, in the United States, and in Menwith Hill, England, in the UK.[41] At that time, according to Newsham, the code name ECHELON was NSA's term for the computer network itself. Lockheed called it P415. The software programs were called SILKWORTH and SIRE. A satellite named VORTEX intercepted communications. An image available on the internet of a fragment apparently torn from a job description shows Echelon listed along with several other code names.[42][43]
Britain's The Guardian newspaper summarized the capabilities of the ECHELON system as follows:
A global network of electronic spy stations that can eavesdrop on telephones, faxes and computers. It can even track bank accounts. This information is stored in Echelon computers, which can keep millions of records on individuals.
Officially, however, Echelon doesn't exist.[44]
Documents leaked by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed that the ECHELON system's collection of satellite data is also referred to as FORNSAT - an abbreviation for "Foreign Satellite Collection".[45][46]
Intercept stations[edit]
First revealed by the European Parliament report (p. 54 ff)[7] and confirmed later by the Edward Snowden disclosures the following ground stations presently have, or have had, a role in intercepting transmissions from Satellite and other means of communication:[7]
RAF Little Sai Wan (Closed) (Hong Kong) Map
Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station (Geraldton, Western Australia) Map
RAF Menwith Hill (Yorkshire, England – Largest known ECHELON facility)[47] Map
Misawa Security Operations Center (Oura, Misawa, Aomori, Tōhoku, Japan) Map
GCHQ Bude (formerly CSO Morwenstow) (Cornwall, UK)[7] Map
Pine Gap (Outside Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia) Map
Sugar Grove (Closed) (West Virginia, US) Map
Yakima Training Center (Closed)[48] (Washington State, US) Map
Buckley Space Force Base (Aurora, Colorado)[49] Map
GCSB Waihopai (Marlborough, New Zealand)[50][51] Map
GCSB Tangimoana (Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand)[50] Map
CFS Leitrim (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)[52] Map
Teufelsberg (Closed 1992), *Berlin, Germany[53] – Responsible for listening in to the Eastern Bloc.)[54] Map
Ayios Nikolaos (British Sovereign Base area of Dhekelia, Cyprus – Cyprus)
Gibraltar (UK)
Diego Garcia (UK)
Bad Aibling Station (Bad Aibling, Germany – US)
relocated to Griesheim/Darmstadt in 2004.[55]
Fort Eisenhower (Georgia, US)
CFB Gander (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)[56][57]
Guam (Pacific Ocean, US)
Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center (Hawaii, US)
Lackland Air Force Base, Medina Annex (San Antonio, Texas, US)
RAF Edzell (Closed 1996) (Scotland)[7]
RAF Boulmer (England)[7]
SNICK International Processing Center (Seeb, Oman) Map
History and context[edit]
Equipment at the Yakima Research Station (YRS) in the early days of the ECHELON program
The ability to intercept communications depends on the medium used, be it radio, satellite, microwave, cellular or fiber-optic.[7] During World War II and through the 1950s, high-frequency ("short-wave") radio was widely used for military and diplomatic communication[58] and could be intercepted at great distances.[7] The rise of geostationary communications satellites in the 1960s presented new possibilities for intercepting international communications.[59] In 1964, plans for the establishment of the ECHELON network took off after dozens of countries agreed to establish the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Intelsat), which would own and operate a global constellation of communications satellites.[30]Teletype operators at the Yakima Research Station (YRS) in the early days of the ECHELON program
In 1966, the first Intelsat satellite was launched into orbit. From 1970 to 1971, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) of Britain began to operate a secret signal station at Morwenstow, near Bude in Cornwall, England. The station intercepted satellite communications over the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Soon afterwards, the US National Security Agency (NSA) built a second signal station at Yakima, near Seattle, for the interception of satellite communications over the Pacific Ocean.[30] In 1981, GCHQ and the NSA started the construction of the first global wide area network (WAN). Soon after Australia, Canada, and New Zealand joined the ECHELON system.[30] The report to the European Parliament of 2001 states: "If UKUSA states operate listening stations in the relevant regions of the earth, in principle they can intercept all telephone, fax, and data traffic transmitted via such satellites."[7]
Most reports on ECHELON focus on satellite interception. Testimony before the European Parliament indicated that separate but similar UKUSA systems are in place to monitor communication through undersea cables, microwave transmissions, and other lines.[60] The report to the European Parliament points out that interception of private communications by foreign intelligence services is not necessarily limited to the US or British foreign intelligence services.[7] The role of satellites in point-to-point voice and data communications has largely been supplanted by fiber optics. In 2006, 99% of the world's long-distance voice and data traffic was carried over optical-fiber.[61] The proportion of international communications accounted for by satellite links is said to have decreased substantially to an amount between 0.4% and 5% in Central Europe.[7] Even in less-developed parts of the world, communications satellites are used largely for point-to-multipoint applications, such as video.[62] Thus, the majority of communications can no longer be intercepted by earth stations; they can only be collected by tapping cables and intercepting line-of-sight microwave signals, which is possible only to a limited extent.[7]
Concerns[edit]
British journalist Duncan Campbell and New Zealand journalist Nicky Hager said in the 1990s that the United States was exploiting ECHELON traffic for industrial espionage, rather than military and diplomatic purposes.[60] Examples alleged by the journalists include the gear-less wind turbine technology designed by the German firm Enercon[7][63] and the speech technology developed by the Belgian firm Lernout & Hauspie.[64]
In 2001, the Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System recommended to the European Parliament that citizens of member states routinely use cryptography in their communications to protect their privacy, because economic espionage with ECHELON has been conducted by the US intelligence agencies.[7]
American author James Bamford provides an alternative view, highlighting that legislation prohibits the use of intercepted communications for commercial purposes, although he does not elaborate on how intercepted communications are used as part of an all-source intelligence process.[65]
In its report, the committee of the European Parliament stated categorically that the Echelon network was being used to intercept not only military communications, but also private and business ones. In its epigraph to the report, the parliamentary committee quoted Juvenal, "Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes." ("But who will watch the watchers").[7] James Bamford, in The Guardian in May 2001, warned that if Echelon were to continue unchecked, it could become a "cyber secret police, without courts, juries, or the right to a defence".[66]
Alleged examples of espionage conducted by the members of the "Five Eyes" include:
On behalf of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the Communications Security Establishment allegedly spied on two British cabinet ministers in 1983.[67]
The US National Security Agency spied on and intercepted the phone calls of Diana, Princess of Wales right up until she died in a Paris car crash with Dodi Fayed in 1997. The NSA currently holds 1,056 pages of classified information about Princess Diana, which has been classified as top secret "because their disclosure could reasonably be expected to cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security ... the damage would be caused not by the information about Diana, but because the documents would disclose 'sources and methods' of US intelligence gathering".[68] An official said that "the references to Diana in intercepted conversations were 'incidental'," and she was never a 'target' of the NSA eavesdropping.[68]
UK agents monitored the conversations of the 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan.[69][70]
US agents gathered "detailed biometric information" on the 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon.[71][72]
In the early 1990s, the US National Security Agency intercepted the communications between the European aerospace company Airbus and the Saudi Arabian national airline. In 1994, Airbus lost a $6 billion contract with Saudi Arabia after the NSA, acting as a whistleblower, reported that Airbus officials had been bribing Saudi officials to secure the contract.[73] As a result, the American aerospace company McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing) won the multibillion-dollar contract instead of Airbus.[74]
The United States defense contractor Raytheon won a US$1.3 billion contract with the Government of Brazil to monitor the Amazon rainforest after the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), acting as a whistleblower, reported that Raytheon's French competitor Thomson-Alcatel had been paying bribes to get the contract.[75]
In order to boost the United States position in trade negotiations with the then Japanese Trade Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, in 1995 the CIA eavesdropped on the conversations between Japanese bureaucrats and executives of car manufacturers Toyota and Nissan.[76]
Workings[edit]
System diagram of the ECHELON satellite intercept station of the NSA at the Yakima Research Station (YRS)[77] TOPCO = Terminal Operations Control CCS = Computer Control Subsystem STEAMS = System Test, Evaluation, Analysis, and Monitoring Subsystem SPS = Signal Processing Subsystem TTDM = Teletype Demodulator
The first United States satellite ground station for the ECHELON collection program was built in 1971 at a military firing and training center near Yakima, Washington. The facility, which was codenamed JACKKNIFE, was an investment of ca. 21.3 million dollars and had around 90 people. Satellite traffic was intercepted by a 30-meter single-dish antenna. The station became fully operational on 4 October 1974. It was connected with NSA headquarters at Fort Meade by a 75-baud secure Teletype orderwire channel.[40]
In 1999 the Australian Senate Joint Standing Committee on Treaties was told by Professor Desmond Ball that the Pine Gap facility was used as a ground station for a satellite-based interception network. The satellites were said to be large radio dishes between 20 and 100 meters in diameter in geostationary orbits. The original purpose of the network was to monitor the telemetry from 1970s Soviet weapons, air defence and other radars' capabilities, satellites' ground stations' transmissions and ground-based microwave communications.[78]
Examples of industrial espionage[edit]
In 1999, Enercon, a German company and leading manufacturer of wind energy equipment, developed a breakthrough generator for wind turbines. After applying for a US patent, it had learned that Kenetech, an American rival, had submitted an almost identical patent application shortly before. By the statement of a former NSA employee, it was later claimed that the NSA had secretly intercepted and monitored Enercon's data communications and conference calls and passed information regarding the new generator to Kenetech.[79] However, later German media reports contradicted this story, as it was revealed that the American patent in question was actually filed three years before the alleged wiretapping was said to have taken place.[80] As German intelligence services are forbidden from engaging in industrial or economic espionage, German companies have complained that this leaves them defenceless against industrial espionage from the United States or Russia. According to Wolfgang Hoffmann, a former manager at Bayer, German intelligence services know which companies are being targeted by US intelligence agencies, but refuse to inform the companies involved.[81]
See also[edit]
Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present)
ADVISE
Frenchelon
List of government surveillance projects
Mass surveillance
Onyx (interception system), the Swiss "Echelon"
Operation Ivy Bells
Bibliography[edit]
Aldrich, Richard J.; GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency, HarperCollins, July 2010. ISBN 978-0-00-727847-3
Bamford, James; The Puzzle Palace, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-006748-5; 1983
Bamford, James; The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-52132-4; 2008
Hager, Nicky; Secret Power: New Zealand's Role in the International Spy Network; Craig Potton Publishing, Nelson, NZ; ISBN 0-908802-35-8; 1996
Keefe, Patrick Radden Chatter: Dispatches from the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping; Random House Publishing, New York, NY; ISBN 1-4000-6034-6; 2005
Keefe, Patrick (2006). Chatter : uncovering the echelon surveillance network and the secret world of global eavesdropping. New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-8129-6827-9.
Lawner, Kevin J.; Post-Sept. 11th International Surveillance Activity - A Failure of Intelligence: The Echelon Interception System & the Fundamental Right to Privacy in Europe, 14 Pace Int'l L. Rev. 435 (2002)
Notes and references[edit]
^ Given the 5 dialects that use the terms, UKUSA can be pronounced from "You-Q-SA" to "Oo-Coo-SA", AUSCANNZUKUS can be pronounced from "Oz-Can-Zuke-Us" to "Orse-Can-Zoo-Cuss".
From Talk:UKUSA Agreement: "Per documents officially released by both the Government Communications Headquarters and the National Security Agency, this agreement is referred to as the UKUSA Agreement. This name is subsequently used by media sources reporting on the story, as written in new references used for the article. The NSA press release provides a pronunciation guide, indicating that "UKUSA" should not be read as two separate entities."(The National Archives)". Archived from the original on 2 May 2013. Retrieved 10 October 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) (National Security Agency) Archived 16 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine"
^ "UK 'biggest spy' among the Five Eyes". News Corp Australia. 22 June 2013. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
^ Google books – Echelon by John O'Neill
^ "AUSCANNZUKUS Information Portal". auscannzukus.net. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 1 February 2010.
^ a b "Q&A: What you need to know about Echelon". BBC. 29 May 2001. Archived from the original on 18 December 2013. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
^ Nabbali, Talitha; Perry, Mark (March 2004). "Going for the throat". Computer Law & Security Review. 20 (2): 84–97. doi:10.1016/S0267-3649(04)00018-4. It wasn't until 1971 that the UKUSA allies began ECHELON
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Schmid, Gerhard (11 July 2001). "On the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system), (2001/2098(INI))". European Parliament: Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System. Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
^ a b Kaz, Roberto; Casado, José (9 July 2013). "Capitais de 4 países também abrigaram escritório da NSA e CIA". O Globo (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
^ a b Gude, Hubert; Poitras, Laura; Rosenbach, Marcel (5 August 2013). "German Intelligence Sends Massive Amounts of Data to the NSA". Der Spiegel. Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
^ Poitras, Laura; Rosenbach, Marcel; Schmid, Fidelius; Stark, Holger; Stock, Jonathan (July 2013). "Cover Story: How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe". Der Spiegel. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
^ a b "US spy centre in India too". Deccan Chronicle. 30 October 2013. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
^ a b c d e f g h i j Dorling, Philip. "Singapore, South Korea revealed as Five Eyes spying partners". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 31 January 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
^ "Document 12. "Activation of Echelon Units," from History of the Air Intelligence Agency, 1 January - 31 December 1994, Volume I (San Antonio, TX: AIA, 1995)". George Washington University. The second extract notes that AIA's participation in a classified activity "had been limited to LADYLOVE operations at Misawa AB [Air Base], Japan." {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
^ a b c d e f "Eyes Wide Open" (PDF). Privacy International. p. 11. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 January 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
^ Norton-Taylor, Richard (1 March 2012). "Menwith Hill eavesdropping base undergoes massive expansion". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 26 January 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
^ Steelhammer, Rick (4 January 2014). "In W.Va., mountains of NSA secrecy". The Charleston Gazette. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
^ a b Poitras, Laura; Rosenbach, Marcel; Stark, Holger (20 December 2013). "Friendly Fire: How GCHQ Monitors Germany, Israel and the EU". Der Spiegel. Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
^ Troianello, Craig (4 April 2013). "NSA to close Yakima Training Center facility". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on 19 February 2014. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
^ Kaz, Roberto; Casado, José (9 July 2013). "Capitais de 4 países também abrigaram escritório da NSA e CIA". O Globo (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 6 December 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024How to use echelon in a sentenceBaron has worked in the upper echelons of newsrooms throughout his career.Martin Baron, executive editor who oversaw dramatic Washington Post expansion, announces retirement | Paul Farhi | January 27, 2021 | Washington PostArguably, the more truly premium stuff that gets produced by Hollywood for streaming — in other words, the more these services represent the higher echelon of Hollywood — the better it is for us.‘I believe enough in this to try to do it myself’: CollegeHumor owner Sam Reich on the brand’s future potential | Pierre Bienaimé | December 1, 2020 | DigidayThe industry commonly recycles ideas, and designers from its lowest ranks to its upper echelons look to the past for tomorrow’s concepts.Is fashion doomed to repeat itself? | Marc Bain | October 28, 2020 | QuartzAt the upper echelons of the sport, where every move counts, there’s pressure on athletes to do all they can to make themselves stronger, while also getting smaller and lighter.The Climbers Speaking Up About Eating Disorders | Outside Editors | October 22, 2020 | Outside OnlineThe highest echelon of TikTokers can charge up to $200,000 per post, but those who have follower counts in the range of 1 million to 5 million typically charge between $5,000 and $15,000.How a TikTok house destroyed itself | Rebecca Jennings | October 1, 2020 | VoxAre you allowed to write about battle from the rear echelon?Who Has the Right to Write About War? | Emily Gray Tedrowe | July 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe film is going to be a huge critical and commercial hit, vaulting Stoller into the upper echelon of Hollywood comedy directors.The Unheralded Comedy Genius: Nicholas Stoller on ‘Neighbors,’ Zac Efron’s ‘Darkness,’ and Diddy | Marlow Stern | May 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMississippi also moves out of the lower echelon solidly improving to 41st from 46th on its rock-bottom costs.South Dakota Is 2013 Top State for Business | CNBC | July 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTTo Connolly and Morris, Bulger was a TE, or top-echelon informant, the highest designation in the Bureau for a snitch.‘You’re a F—cking Liar’: Whitey Bulger and the FBI’s Sordid History | T.J. English | July 1, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBut as part of that top echelon of defense officials, Diskin participated in almost all the meetings where Iran was discussed.Former Shin Bet Chief Slams Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak Over Iran | Dan Ephron | January 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThey did a lazy circle of the room, swung into an echelon and performed a slow chandelle, before dropping into Bobby's hand.What Rough Beast? | Jefferson HigheI couldn't quite see the stratified society outlined by Scholar Phelps as holding a position open for her in the top echelon.Highways in Hiding | George Oliver SmithThe cuirassiers getting into line first, charged at once, the 16th following in echelon.Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 | VariousPortions of his forces were arranged in echelon in some of his other battles.Elements of Military Art and Science | Henry Wager HalleckI ordered him to wheel his brigades to the left, to advance in echelon, and to catch the enemy in flank.The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete | William T. ShermanSee More ExamplesBritish Dictionary definitions for echelonechelon/ (ˈɛʃəˌlɒn) /nouna level of command, responsibility, etc (esp in the phrase the upper echelons)military a formation in which units follow one another but are offset sufficiently to allow each unit a line of fire aheada group formed in this wayphysics a type of diffraction grating used in spectroscopy consisting of a series of plates of equal thickness arranged stepwise with a constant offsetSee moreverbto assemble in echelonOrigin of echelon1C18: from French échelon, literally: rung of a ladder, from Old French eschiele ladder, from Latin scāla; see scale ³Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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