Hi-tech spying by US revealed The
recent arrest in Pakistan of top Al Qaeda lieutenant Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed was the result of months of tracking the terrorist's 10 cell
phones by the US Echelon spy system.....( Gulf Daily News, 10 Mar
03)
The spies and the spinner In
the Cheltenham headquarters of Britain's secret global listening
facility, GCHQ, analysts have access to one of the world's most powerful
pieces of computer software. They call it Dictionary, and its job is to
screen the massive flows of intercepted data and look for groups of words
of significance to whatever the analysts are seeking.....( Observer, 9
Mar 03)
Ex-Colorado Professor Feels the Sting of
McCarthyism, Betrayal During the height of the 1950s Red
Scare, University of Colorado philosophy professor Morris Judd was fired
amid rumors that he was a communist. He never worked in education again.
Half a century later, Judd, 86, has learned that the man responsible was
Robert Stearns, then the university's president, who spied on his faculty
for the FBI.....( AP, 9 Mar 03)
Publisher arrested in Delhi for spying
An Indian book publisher was arrested for allegedly
passing on classified documents to foreign missions in New Delhi,
including the Pakistan high commission.....( Dawn, 9 Mar 03)
Japan readies spy satellites Japan is
keeping its space centre under close guard as it prepares to launch its
first two spy satellites amid simmering tensions with North Korea.....(
Reuters, 10 Mar 03) NASDA holds H2-A launch
test The National Space Development Agency of Japan
(NASDA) held a rehearsal Saturday for the launch of the nation's first
intelligence-gathering satellites at Tanegashima Space Center in
Kagoshima Prefecture.....( Yomiuri Shimbun, 9 Mar 03) Violation of air
space by Israeli spy plane reported A statement from the Army’s
Information Office Saturday reported the violation of Lebanese air space
by an Israeli spy plane that entered from the south and proceeded
northward.....( Daily Star, 10 Mar 03)
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