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UG#596 - Lifting The Lid on The NSA (Secret Rooms, Infiltration, Menwith Hill)

Robin Upton | 07.12.2012 23:38 | Analysis | Repression | Technology | Sheffield

This week we learn more about NSA, which no longer limits its activities to mere intelligence gathering. Whistle-blower Mark Klein tells how he broke the NSA's unwarranted wiretapping scandal, Kevin Zeese speaks on a century of political infiltration of US political movements, and infiltration of Occupy movements and we conclude with researcher Steve Schofield on the NSA's largest base in Europe.

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In our first hour this week, we hear an interview of whistle-blower, Mark Klein. Klein, an AT&T telecoms engineer, decided after his retirement to disclose information he randomly came across about the NSA's construction of a secret room which he discovered was intercepting all Internet traffic. He tells about his experiences trying to bring this to the attention of the national media, and of the book he subsequently wrote and self-published, Wiring Up The Big Brother Machine and Fighting It.

Next we hear Cheryl from 9-11 Wake-Up Call interviewing Kevin Zeese on how the US government's long history of infiltrating political movements of all stripes. Over the last century, he reports, infiltration has been the norm, not the exception. He has recently coauthored an article entitled Occupy, Infiltration of Political Movements is the Norm, Not The Exception in The United States. One of the organizers of Occupy Wall St., he focuses particularly on the governments use fo infiltration to try to undermine, divide and misdirect the Occupy Movement.

We conclude the show with researcher and UK CND activist, Steve Schofield on a report he published into RAF Menwith Hill, formerly under the control of the UK's Royal Air Force, now the NSA's largest base in Europe, employing over 2000 people. He reports on the difficulty of establishing what is going on there, given that in spite of whistle-blowers having given evidence of illegal commercial spying being carried out to advantage US companies, the UK government has effectively no oversight. His research indicates that such bases are no mere centers of intelligence gathering but are increasingly working as operational centers for high technology warfare using unaccountable US special forces and predatory drones and as centers of commercial espionage. Should UK taxpayers be subsidizing this?

Robin Upton
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08.12.2012 14:29

Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure
 http://www.fas.org/irp/nsa/best_practices.pdf

Virtual Reality
 http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_quarterly/Virtual_Reality.pdf

Inference and Cover Stories
 http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_quarterly/Inference_and_Cover_Stories.pdf

Unofficial Vocabulary
 http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_quarterly/Unofficial_Vocabulary.pdf

Error Messages: The Importance of Good Design
 http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_quarterly/Error_Messages.pdf

Menwith Hill: The Strategic Roles & Economic Impact of the US Spy Base in Yorkshire
 http://goodtimesweb.org/documentation/liftingthelid.pdf

Massive Expansion of NSA Menwith Hill Spy Base
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/01/menwith-hill-eavesdropping-base-expansion

monitoring use of the SIPRNet
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Who Watches the Watchmen?
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nsa-spybases-expansions
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us-nro-ground-sations
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sat-guide
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INTERFERENCE WITH DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITES
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Space Component of US Military Strategy
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Snooping on Space Pictures
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NSA's Analysis and Reporting of Foreign Spaceborne Reconnaissance
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Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) at NSA
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NSA And Computer Development
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British Bases in Cyprus and Signals Intelligence
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NSA to intercept TETRA police networks
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NSA spy guide
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NSA Blueprint for a Science of Cybersecurity
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DoD Scientific and Engineering Integrity
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Shell Trojan Generators/Droppers/Backdoors
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DoD Releases Cloud Computing Strategy
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Governments Global Spying of Cloud Services
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New Smartphones and the Risk Picture
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Mobile Device Location Needs USG Protection
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Better Mobile Devices Info Security Needed
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NIST SP800-124 Mobile Device Security Guidelines
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Civil Disturbance and Criminal Tactics of Protest Extremists
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Military Police Civil Disturbance Operations
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Raytheon Cybersecurity Technology
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Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems
 http://cryptome.org/raytheon-iis.pdf

Nuclear Effects on Fiber Optic Transmission Sys
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DoD Responsibilities for Critical Infrastructure
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The Surveillance Catalog: Hacking (11 documents)
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Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL
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Hacking PGP
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Soviet Capabilities in Electronic Warfare
 http://cryptome.org/soviet-ew.zip
 http://cryptome.org/jya/rusigint.htm

Soviet Wing-in-Ground-Effect Vehicles
 http://cryptome.org/cia-88-10070.zip

State Department brings U.S. IT companies to Thailand to criticize open source.
 http://wikileaks.org/cable/2010/02/10CHIANGMAI18.html#par9

CHINA'S ANGST OVER U.S. SATELLITE INTERCEPTION
 http://cables.mrkva.eu/cable.php?id=142532

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 http://goodtimesweb.org/surveillance/pla_third_department_sigint_cyber_stokes_lin_hsiao.pdf

Diamond aircraft used for civilian surveillance, sold to China, US, Saudi Arabia.
 http://wikileaks.org/cable/2010/02/10VIENNA180.html

Chinese Stealth Aircraft Photos
 http://cryptome.org/0003/cn-stealth.pdf

Iran Net Filter/Monitor in Developing Countries
 http://cryptome.org/2012/08/ir-internet-filtering.pdf

Iran Computer Crimes
 http://cryptome.org/2012/08/ir-computer-crimes.pdf

Belarus moves to control the Internet based on Sweden, France, Germany, US.
 http://wikileaks.org/cable/2010/02/10MINSK47.html#par4

BIOS OF INDIAN CYBERSECURITY EXPERTS
 http://cables.mrkva.eu/cable.php?id=48874

BENIN'S NOMINEES FOR CYBERCRIME WORSHOP
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ARGENTINA: FUGITIVE HACKER RETURNS TO ARGENTINA AND THREATENS TO TELL ALL
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The Fall of the Shah of Iran: A Chaotic Approach
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CRITICAL FOREIGN DEPENDENCIES (CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND KEY RESOURCES LOCATED ABROAD)
 http://cables.mrkva.eu/cable.php?id=192686

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