Buckley Air Force Base

Buckley Air Force Base
Characteristics
ICAO code	KBKF
IATA code	BFK
Coordinates	39 ° 42 ′ 6 ″  N , 104 ° 45 ′ 6 ″  W Coordinates: 39 ° 42 ′ 6 ″  N , 104 ° 45 ′ 6 ″  W
Height above MSL	1726 m (5663  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	5 km east of Aurora
Basic data
opening	1942
operator	United States Air Force

The Buckley Air Force Base is an air base of the United States Air Force in Aurora, Arapahoe County, Colorado, USA. It belongs to the National Security Agency and specifically to the Echelon program.

history

Second World War

Aerial view of Navy Air Station Denver in the late 1940s

In the early years of World War II , the city of Denver bought a 23 km ² piece of land a few miles east of the city and donated it to the United States Department of the Army . The location was named Buckley Field ; after the 1st Lt. John Harold Buckley, of Longmont, Colorado , who was killed behind enemy lines in France on September 17, 1918. In 1965/66 the location of the city of Aurora was incorporated.

Secret services

A facility for the National Security Agency for $ 141 million is planned here. It will have space for 850 people who are currently still housed in temporary buildings. Buckley is home to many secret services such as B. the NSA, the National Reconnaissance Office , the Aerospace Data Facility-Colorado ; Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines intelligence services; and by Navy and Coast Guard Cryptographic Units.

According to a report by the European Parliament , this is an Echelon station.

The tasks of the Yakima Research Station will be done here in the coming years.

Buckley Air Force Base's Aerospace Data Facility delivers data from satellites to the Utah Data Center .

See also

• North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD for short) in Colorado Springs (132 km south)
• United States Air Force Academy , Colorado Springs

literature

• Thomas John Michel, Buckley Air Force Base: Boom Base in Boom Town Aurora, University of Colorado Denver , 2006, ProQuest, ISBN 978-0-549-42390-4 ( online at Google Books )

Web links

• netzpolitik.org: Frank Walter Steinmeier: I am innocent, Echelon was terminated

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WayBackMachine Denvernews, January 2, 2012: Defense Bill Includes At Least $ 400M For Colorado ( January 10, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ) ( Webcitation archive ( July 27, 2013 memento on WebCite ))
2. ↑ European Parliament: Report on the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system) (2001/2098 (INI)) ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was used automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (see page 58, section Buckley Field, Denver, Colorado, USA for the station itself, and on page 1 the title of the document for the type of determination)  
3. ↑ Business Insider of June 7, 2013: Here's The $ 2 Billion Facility Where The NSA Will Store And Analyze Your Communications ( Memento of the original of August 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ()