Xref: netcom.com sci.crypt:12315 alt.privacy:6117 Path: netcom.com!netcomsv!decwrl!waikato.ac.nz!aukuni.ac.nz!cs18.cs.aukuni.ac.nz!pgut1 Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.privacy Subject: NSA tapping of UK communications Message-ID: <1993Mar8.104302.10737@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> From: pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (PeterClaus Gutmann ) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 10:43:02 GMT Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland Lines: 26 The following appeared in the NZ Herald on March 4th - I thought it might be of interest to sci.crypt and alt.privacy readers. It backs up claims made in places like "The Puzzle Palace": " A former MI6 officer told the Daily Express that US agents tapped royal calls on behalf of the GCHQ spy centre. Mr James Rusbridger told the paper two top-secret listening stations - operated by the NSA - illegally tap large numbers of private conversations from their bases in Cornwall and Yorkshire. 'By getting the Americans to do it, the British Government is able to say truthfully, though misleadingly, that GCHQ does not tap domestic telephone calls', Mr Rusbridger said. 'The reason the Government is resisting an official investigation into the tapping of royal conversations is that it would be forced to admit publicly that these American owned and controlled listening stations exist on UK soil'. Incidentally, NZ has it's own NSA-controlled listening stations, the largest being at Tangimoana on the South Island. Peter. -- pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||p_gutmann@cs.aukuni.ac.nz||gutmann_p@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz peterg@kcbbs.gen.nz||peter@nacjack.gen.nz||peter@phlarnschlorpht.nacjack.gen.nz (In order of preference - one of 'em's bound to work) -- C++ will do for C what Algol 68 did for Algol --