What does GCHQ stand for, and what does it do? Is it similar to the NSA?

Feyd Eli

Government Communications HQ or something like that. It is similar to the NSA. Rumor has it that each agency taps the other's domestic calls, so both may truthfully say that they don't engage in domestic survellience... I beleive the U.K. still denies the existence of the GCHQ, despite there being a large building with satellite dishes and antennas all over it in Cheltenham (?). I read that a government minister said in response to a statement made by a former GCHQ chief that he worked at the "GCHQ" that this didn't necessarily mean that GCHQ existed before his tenure, nor does it imply the GCHQ existed after he left... (This from the book _SpyCatcher_?) /-----------------------------------\ | Karl L. Barrus | | elee9sf@menudo.uh.edu | <- preferred address | barrus@tree.egr.uh.edu (NeXTMail) | \-----------------------------------/