Tuesday, July 9, 2013

More NSA Revelations: Australia Maintains Four U.S. Spy Sites

The Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station (ADSCS), South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (Image from maps.google.com)

More Snowden Revelations: Australia has FOUR U.S. Spy Sites -- International Business Times

For several years now there had been hearsay about Australian secret agencies exchanging intelligence information and citizens' private information with other countries such as US, but no data had been available to support this claim.

Not until today.

Brazil's O Globo newspapers made public a supposedly classified NSA map of spying sites around powerful countries in the world with four Australian sites included in the map. These Australian sites, according to the newspaper, support data to U.S. intelligence collection program codenamed X-Keyscore.

The map is the latest leak following numerous revelations from Edward Snowden.

The map was supposed to be in strict classified viewing by authorized personnel from the US, Australia, Canada, Britain and New Zealand but Mr Snowden gave the map to American journalist Glenn Greenwald.

Read more ....

More News On NSA - Australia Cooperation

Snowden reveals Australia's links to US spy web -- The Age
Australia-US spy links exposed by Edward Snowden -- The Australian
Aussies collect intelligence for US: Snowden -- Australian Times
Snowden reveals Australian links to NSA spying -- Global Post
New Snowden leak: Australia’s place in US spying web -- RT
Australia’s quiet role in the NSA spying scandal -- Crickey

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