By George C. Chalou
The secrets and techniques conflict: The workplace of Strategic prone in global struggle II, first released in 1992, is a suite of papers from the complaints of a huge scholarly convention at the OSS. The OSS, shaped via President Roosevelt and headed via William “Wild invoice” Donovan, performed an important position within the Allied victory, and the booklet describes OSS actions and operations either on the headquarters point and within the box all through western Europe, the Balkans, and in Asia. participants comprise former contributors of the OSS and famous historians, making The secrets and techniques War a very good creation to the place of work of Strategic companies and its intelligence-gathering, propaganda, espionage, and sabotage actions.
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The CSE agreed and Frost’s boss travelled to London to conduct the operation from inside the Canadian High Commission building. The GCHQ provided the frequencies to look for and paid all the costs. His boss simply handed over all the tapes to the GCHQ at the end of the operation. ’12 Why did the GCHQ ask Canadians to do the job? Deniability. If questions had ever been asked, it could ‘honestly’ have been said that the GCHQ had conducted no such interception. It appears that this sort of favour is often done between the UKUSA agencies to avoid political accountability in the country wanting some illegal or sensitive interception done.
In July 1988, a United States news-paper, 51 SECRET POWER the Cleveland Plain Dealer, published a story about electronic monitoring of the phone calls of a Republican senator, Strom Thurmond. The alleged monitoring had occurred at Menwith Hill. Behind this story, a congressional investigation was occurring after allegations of corruption and misspending had been made to a congressman by a former computer specialist at the station, Margaret Newsham. As an employee of the Lockheed Space and Missiles Corporation, she had worked at Menwith as a contract employee.
The hill behind the station, until 1991, was a radio interception site which New Zealanders helped to operate (see Chapter 5). 45 SECRET POWER This is the work of the Dictionary programme. It reads every word and number in every single incoming message and picks out all the ones containing target keywords and numbers. Thousands of simultaneous messages are read in ‘real time’ as they pour into the station, hour after hour, day after day, as the computer finds intelligence needles in the telecommunications haystack.