Which have
been the most important
real espionage organizations around
the world?
ECHELON
ECHELON is considered
one of the biggest espionage networks to intercept electronic communications
history through (signals intelligence, SIGINT) directed by The United States,
The United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. This organization can capture radio and
satellite communications, telephone calls, faxes and emails to almost everyone,
so this espionage organization intercepts more than three billion
communications everyday.
This organization was created to manage the
military communications of the Soviet Union, as well as to control clues about
terrorist, drug plans, political and diplomatic intelligence and economic
espionage of any nation. The system is under the
administration of the NSA (National Security Agency). This organization has
only 100,000 employees in Maryland (EE.UU), (other sources speak of 380,000
employees worldwide), so It is probably the greatest espionage organization in
the world. The information is
sent from Menwith Hill (UK) by satellite to Ford Meade in Maryland (EE.UU).
This organization has
a popular culture like Echelon Conspiracy, inspired by the surveillance system
ECHELON, is a 2009 action thriller film directed by Greg Marcks, also the video
game series Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell also draws inspiration from this. The
series features the protagonist, Sam Fisher, a trained operative belonging to a
fictional branch of the National Security Agency called Third Echelon, and the
famous film called The Bourne Ultimatum makes several references to ECHELON. A
CIA listening station in London is alerted when ECHELON detects the keyword
"Blackbriar" in a cell phone conversation between a journalist and
his editor.
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