Stoneghost

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Stoneghost or " Stone Ghost ", also Intelink -C, Intelink Commonwealth or "Q-Lat" (for Quad link ), is the code name for a communication network of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) of the United States of America for the exchange of information between entities in the United States, United Kingdom , Canada and Australia . Other sources add New Zealand to the participants, naming them all so-called Five Eyes , the cooperating intelligence services of the nations mentioned.

Stone Ghost not used to transmit information of the classification level Top Secret (~ "top secret"). Nevertheless, it is a high security network with strict requirements for device technology and software security. It is used to transmit military information, signal intelligence , intelligence information from the foreign intelligence services and information on national security .

The American professor for Intelligence and National Security at Tiffin University, Tiffin (Ohio) , Jan Goldman, named the communication between DIA partners and Commonwealth allies during military conflicts as an additional function of Stoneghost in 2016. This is a major difference from other allies, who are only provided with intelligence on a case-by-case basis.

Espionage in Canada (2012)

Royal Canadian Navy Intelligence Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Delisle pleaded guilty to treason on October 10, 2012 for selling data from Stoneghost to Russian Military Intelligence . Delisle was sentenced to 20 years in prison for violating the Security of Information Act .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US Intelligence Community Consumers Guide 2009
  2. ↑ Jan Goldman (2011) Words of Intelligence: An Intelligence Professional's Lexicon for Domestic and Foreign Threats ; Scarecrow Press; Page 240.
  3. ↑ a b James Cox, Canada and the Five Eyes Intelligence Community , December 2012, p. 8.
  4. ↑ a b Jan Goldman and Susan Maret (2016) Intelligence and Information Policy for National Security: Key Terms and Concepts ; Rowman & Littlefield, 532.
  5. ↑ Navy spy sold secrets to Russia for $ 3K a month . In: CBC News , October 10, 2012.  
  6. ^ Gordon Corera: Jeffrey Delisle: Canadian spy passed on UK secrets . In: BBC News . BBC . October 28, 2012. Retrieved October 28, 2012.
  7. ^ Navy spy Delisle sentenced to 20 years in prison
  8. ↑ Canadian spy Jeffrey Delisle gets 20 years for selling secrets to Russia