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ed subtly nominates Zephram's tone
US military and economic clout, as well as NSA's vastly
superior technical capabilities and near unlimited funds, allow Washington to dominate. And while CSE has only a $200-300 million dollar budget, NSA has an estimated annual budget of almost $4 billion. But the relationship is not without mutual benefits. CSE, NSA, and Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) use each other's facilities and personnel to spy on friend and foe alike and, more alarmingly, to circumvent domestic laws and spy on their own populations. [snip] I either participated in or had direct knowledge of operations in which CSE operated alone or joined with NSA or GCHQ to: o intercept communications in other countries from the confines of Canadian embassies around the world with the knowledge of the ambassador; o aid politicians, political parties, or factions in an allied country to gain partisan advantage o spy on its allies o spy on its own citizens; and o perform "favors" that helped its allies evade domestic laws against spying. [snip] Although I visited NSA headquarters at Fort Meade dozens of times, it was at the Special Collection Services (SCS) at College Park, Maryland, that I received my covert operation training and assignments. This facility, set in suburban Washington, DC, dealt exclusively with covert operations. [The facility was relocated closer to Fort Meade in the early 1990s] The first time I was driven there in 1978, I entered through a strip mall and then through a door in the back of a restaurant; the second time, via a dry cleaners. These dinky businesses in a fake shopping center were all owned, operated, and staffed by US espionage agencies. From the street, the installation's high-tech capacity, its antennae and satellite receptors, were camouflaged and it is |
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