In 1996, New Zealander Nicky Hager wrote a book "Secret Power" containing a great deal of information on Echelon, with a particular NZ perspective. A few days ago, papers held by the Prime Minister of the time were accidentally released and appeared in the Sunday Star Times. Some quotes from the story at http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/0,2106,3540743a6005,00.html: The top-secret intelligence report found among David Lange's papers shows New Zealand had been spying on friendly countries throughout the region. Targets included Japanese and Philippines diplomatic cables and the government communications of Fiji, the Solomons, Tonga and "international organisations operating in the Pacific". The Government Communications Security Bureau's 1985/86 annual report also reveals that one of New Zealand's main targets was "UN diplomatic" cables, but which agencies of the United Nations were targeted is not stated. [...] "A total of 171 reports were published, covering the Solomons, Fiji, Tonga and international organisations operating in the Pacific. The raw traffic for this reporting provided by NSA the US National Security Agency)." The GCSB also produced 238 intelligence reports on Japanese diplomatic cables, using "raw traffic from GCHQ/NSA sources". This was down from the previous year: "The Japanese government implementation of a new high grade cypher system seriously reduced the bureau's output." For French government communications, the GCSB "relied heavily on (British) GCHQ acquisition and forwarding of French Pacific satellite intercept". [...] Each page of the 31-page report that mentioned eavesdropping operations was headed "TOP SECRET UMBRA HANDLE VIA COMINT CHANNELS ONLY". COMINT stands for "communications intelligence". There's also a second story at http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/0,2106,3540733a6005,00.html covering US pressure on NZ over its anti-nuclear policy. Peter. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]