| Secret Power: Chapter Two: Hooked up to the spy network: The UKUSA system (5643 words) |
 | It described UKUSA "embassy collection" operations, where sophisticated receivers and processors are secretly transported to their countries' overseas embassies in diplomatic bags and used to monitor all manner of communications in the foreign capitals. |
| The operations are said to take a whole room of the embassy buildings and to be able to listen to local telephone calls at will.[14] There is good reason to assume that these operations, too, were prompted by and supported with equipment and technical advice from the NSA and GCHQ. |
| He described how the UKUSA countries were "soon to embark on a massive, billion-dollar expansion of their global electronic surveillance system', with "new stations and monitoring centres... |
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