Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center
Coordinates: 21 ° 28 '33 " N , 158 ° 3' 4.2" W.
The Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center ( KRSOC , pronounced "KR-Sock"), also known as the Kunia Tunnel or the Kunia Regional Signals Intelligence Operations Center , is a facility of the National Security Agency . It is a secure facility, at the Kunia Road between Kunia Camp and Wheeler Army Airfield , southwest of Wahiawā in Honolulu County in the middle of the island O'ahu ( Hawaii ).
According to a report by the European Parliament , this is an Echelon station.
There are other regional SIGINT operations centers of the NSA. B. at Lackland Air Force Base in Medina, Texas and at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia . Fort Gordon is said to be an echelon facility.
There used to be a Wullenwever antenna nine kilometers to the northeast .
KRSOC delivers data to the Utah data center .
history
Because of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the facility was built as a bomb-proof bunker with an area of 23,000 m 2 for aircraft repairs near the Wheeler Army Airfield. During the further course of the Second World War and in the following decades, the system was primarily used for cryptographic and telecommunications activities.
In May 2013, Edward Snowden , an employee of this facility, copied classified documents onto a memory stick and forwarded the documents to the press. In doing so, he has demonstrated the existence of extensive NSA surveillance measures, including the PRISM surveillance program . This resulted in the surveillance and espionage affair in 2013 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kunia RSOC Echelon Global Surveillance Station . In: Cryptome Eyeball Series . September 17, 2007. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
- ^ Sheryl SFC Lawry, Aftergood, Steven: CW5 retires after 36 years of dedicated service . In: United States Army . October 20, 2008. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
- ↑ Nina Wu: Blind businessman sues SBA for Web site access , Honolulu Star Bulletin. August 18, 2009. Retrieved June 10, 2013.
- ^ John Pike, Aftergood, Steven: Regional SIGINT Operations Center Kunia . In: Federation of American Scientists . September 13, 2000. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
- ↑ 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 December 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), (see page 58, Section Kunia, Hawaii for the station itself, and on page 1 the title of the document for the type of finding)
- ↑ Spokesman, Air Intelligence Agency from February 1999: Medina Regional SIGINT Operations Center strengthens joint missions ( Memento from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 205 kB) ()
- ^ Military.com, Base Guide: Welcome to Fort Gordon
- ↑ Naval Security Group Activity, Fort Gordon (NSGAFG) ( memento of October 20, 2004 on the Internet Archive ), WebCite Archive ( memento of August 12, 2013 on WebCite )
- ↑ Interview with a Navy cryptological technician interpretive (CTI)
- ↑ Former Wullenweber antenna arrays of the US Navy, Army and Airforce ( Memento from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (), See route on Google Maps and compare with the second to last satellite image on the website below
- ↑ Business Insider, June 7, 2013: Here's The $ 2 Billion Facility Where The NSA Will Store And Analyze Your Communications ( Memento August 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) ()
- ↑ 1. Kunia Tunnel . In: Wheeler Army Airfield Historic Guide . April 7, 2000. Retrieved August 18, 2009.
- ^ Bill Gertz : Officials Worried Snowden Will Pass Secrets to Chinese . In: Washington Free Beacon , June 13, 2013. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013.
- ^ After Profits, Defense Contractor Faces the Pitfalls of Cybersecurity . In: New York Times , June 15, 2013. Archived from the original on June 16, 2013.