tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post113543039114465216..comments2024-03-28T03:54:21.932-04:00Comments on Canadian Cynic: Sure, it's EASY to make fun of the Americans ...CChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11406057201126015750noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-1135641173095114902005-12-26T18:52:00.000-05:002005-12-26T18:52:00.000-05:00From wikipedia on Echelon :"The following are vari...From wikipedia on Echelon :<BR/><BR/>"The following are various intelligence gathering stations of US intelligence agencies and armed forces or their allies.<BR/><BR/>Alert (Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada) <BR/>Gander (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada) <BR/>Leitrim (south of Ottawa, Canada) <BR/>Masset (British Columbia, Canada)" <BR/><BR/>We agreed to this under NORAD 50 years ago and I agree it does seem time to revisit our complicity here.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6708375.post-1135445426090144912005-12-24T12:30:00.000-05:002005-12-24T12:30:00.000-05:00While not directly pertaining to the precursor of ...While not directly pertaining to the precursor of ECHELON, Michael Frost, an ex-CSE employee, wrote a book called SPYWORLD in 1994, detaling a brief history of Canada's involvement in SIGINT.<BR/><BR/>Essentially there has been an agreement between the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand going back to the start of the cold war. The laws of these countries don't (generally) allow domesting spying, thus each country's foreign intelligence agency spies on the others, and then the information gathered is exchanged.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com