Shoal Bay Receiving Station

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Coordinates: 12 ° 21 ′ 31.7 ″  S , 130 ° 58 ′ 55.9 ″  E

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The Shoal Bay Receiving Station is an intelligence facility at Darwin , Northern Territory , Australia. It is located on Shoal Bay about 17 kilometers from Darwin. The operator is the Australian Signals Directorate in cooperation with other parts of the Department of Defense and the Australian Defense Force . The system is part of the ECHELON program. The civil and military telecommunications of Indonesia are bugged . The station is operated according to the UKUSA agreement, which is also called Five Eyes.

According to the report of the European Parliament of July 11, 2001, the station was operated by the Australian intelligence service and had 10 satellite antennas. The report was based on the information provided by Jeffrey T. Richelson, a former member of the National Security Archive, established in 1985 . According to Richelson, the antennas were aimed at the Indonesian PALAPA satellites .

In 2005 the station had 17 antennas. At that time, 85 people worked at the station, 45 of them from Boeing Australia .

The Sydney Morning Herald named Shoal Bay Receiving Station as one of four monitoring facilities in Australia alongside Pine Gap , HMAS Harman and Geraldton / Kojarena that use XKeyscore software to collect data for the NSA . The newspaper also compared the Shoal Bay wiretapping system with the famous Bletchley Park , where the English decrypted the Germans' communications encrypted with the Enigma during World War II .

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  1. ↑ AGDoD: The quiet achiever ( English ) Australian Government Department of Defense. Archived from the original on July 30, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ Shoal Bay Receiving Station ( English ) Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability. November 17, 2007. Archived from the original on July 30, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
  3. ↑ World-Information.Org ( English ) In: world-information.org . Archived from the original on July 30, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
  4. ↑ a b Nautilus Institute Australia: Shoal Bay Receiving Station ( Memento of July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (Archived by the Internet Archive WayBackMachine on July 27, 2011) ( Webcitation Archive of July 25, 2013 ( Memento of July 25, 2013 on WebCite ))
  5. ↑ Overview Echelon from the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg ( archive ( Memento from August 3, 2013 on WebCite ))
  6. ↑ EU Parliament. 2001 ( online )
  7. ↑ Philip Dorling: Edward Snowden reveals Australia's Links To Secret US Spy Program ( English ) In: The Sunday Morning Herald . July 8, 2013. Archived from the original on August 2, 2013. Retrieved on August 2, 2013.
  8. ↑ Sidney Morning Herald of March 3, 2007: Spying game keeps its peace ( Memento of August 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) ()