 The Waihopai Valley Government Communications Security Bureau base. The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) is an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government. Image File history File links I took this aerial photo of the GCSB base at Waihopai, New Zealand. ...
An intelligence agency is a governmental organization devoted to gathering of information by means of espionage, communication interception, cryptanalysis, cooperation with other institutions, and evaluation of public sources. ...
The mission statement is given as:
To contribute to the national security of New Zealand through:
- providing foreign signals intelligence to support and inform Government decision making;
- providing an all-hours foreign intelligence watch and warning service to Government;
- ensuring the integrity, availability and confidentiality of official information through information systems security services to Government; and
- assisting in the protection of the national critical infrastructure from information-borne threats.
The GCSB was established by Prime Ministerial order in 1977 and operates a satellite communications interception station at Waihopai and a radio communications interception station at Tangimoana. The GCSB reports directly to the Prime Minister, who is the Minister holding the Intelligence portfolio. The Waihopai Valley Government Communications Security Bureau base. ...
Tangimoana is a community in the Manawatu-Wanganui Region of the North Island of New Zealand. ...
The Prime Minister of New Zealand is New Zealands head of government and is the leader of the party or coalition with majority support in the Parliament of New Zealand. ...
A minister or a secretary is a politician who heads a government ministry or department (e. ...
Intelligence (abbreviated or ) is the process and the result of gathering information and analyzing it to answer questions or obtain advance warnings needed to plan for the future. ...
In 2001, the Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection was formed within the GCSB with a mandate to assist in the protection of national critical infrastructure from information borne threats.
In 2003 the Government Communications Security Bureau Act 2003 was passed, establishing the Bureau as a public service department. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A 1985-86 GCSB annual report showed that New Zealand had been reading the communications of friendly countries, including Japanese and Philippine diplomatic traffic, UN diplomatic traffic, and the government communications of Tonga, Fiji and the Solomons. The raw traffic had mostly been obtained from GCHQ or the NSA. 238 intelligence reports had been produced from intercepted Japanese diplomatic communications, although this was down from the previous year as, "The Japanese government implementation of a new high grade cypher system seriously reduced the bureau's output" [1]. The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) (previously named the Government Code and Cipher School (GC&CS)) is the main British intelligence service providing signals intelligence (SIGINT). ...
NSA can stand for: National Security Agency of the USA The British Librarys National Sound Archive This page concerning a three-letter acronym or abbreviation is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
See also
The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS or SIS) is an intelligence agency of the New Zealand government. ...
References - Nicky Hager, "Secret Power - New Zealand's Role in the International Spy Network", Craig Potton Publishing, 1996, ISBN 0908802358 [2].
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