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Details on the Echelon National Security Program.

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The Echelon national security program is a worldwide security program run by the five signees of the United Kingdom-United States Security Agreement which was formed after World War II, largely in part to spy on the Soviet Union, but is now used for various reasons to intercept communications.

The program is run through each nation’s security agency, including the United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters, an agency founded in the early nineteen hundreds and was crucial in intelligence gathering against the Germans during World War II and against the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

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Global Secrecy

The Australian agency is called the Defence Signals Directorate and intercepts signals and oversees information security and disseminates that information among Australia’s military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

The Canadian equivalent of these organizations is the Communications Security Establishment Canada and works as a branch of the Department of National Defence where it monitors all communications of foreign governments and their own nationals.

The New Zealand agency is called the Government Communications Security Bureau and in essence spies on other governments, monitors foreign intelligence, distributes the information within the government, and serves as New Zealand’s anti-terror agency.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom agency that is responsible for working with Echelon national security and intercepting telephone and electronic signals in order to gather intelligence on foreign governments, businesses, foreign nationals, and their own residents is the Government Communications Headquarters.

The agency began as the Government Code and Cypher School in the early 1900s, around the time of the First World War.

It became much larger around World War II and the beginning of the Cold War when it changed its name to the Government Communications Headquarters.

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Australia

The UK is not the only country to implement an echelon national security based program.

The Australian agency that is responsible for intercepting electronic and telephone signals is the Defence Signals Directorate.

The Defence Signals Directorate, which functions as a part of the Department of Defence, is responsible for collect foreign signals intelligence and distribute that intelligence within the government and among foreign governments.

Founded following World War II at the beginning of the Cold War, the agency is a part of the Department of Defence which is run by Joel Fitzgibbon who wound up having himself spied on because the Department believed that his friendship with a Chinese businesswoman would be a security risk.

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Canada

Communications Security Establishment Canada is a branch of the Department of National Defence and employs more than fifteen hundred people with an annual budget over well over two hundred million dollars.

Since 2001, Canadian officials have given the agency even more power to intercept communications, including doing what the American National Security Agency was doing in wiretapping phone calls between Canadian residents and other nations.

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New Zealand

In New Zealand, the agency responsible for these duties is the Government Communications Security Bureau.

They utilize their version of echelon national security for intercepting telephone and electronic communications and distributing them within the government.

The Government Communications Security Bureau runs through two listening stations and interception stations which have been running since the 1980s. 

The agency never discloses their actions and no one but their management, the banking mafia, in essence, has any oversight over them.

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