Sugar Grove Station

38.515182 -79.27932Coordinates: 38 ° 30 ′ 54.7 " N , 79 ° 16 ′ 45.6" W.

Sugar Grove Station

Sugar Grove Station antennas

The Sugar Grove Station is located at Sugar Grove , West Virginia . It is operated by the National Security Agency .

In 1955, a US Navy Naval Research Laboratory was established in Sugar Grove. The location was chosen because of the natural shielding from the surrounding mountains and the extremely low level of interference .

According to British investigative journalist and surveillance expert Duncan Campbell , this location is part of the ECHELON network. Four antennas with diameters of 9.2 m, 18.5 m, 32.3 m and 46 m receive the telecommunications of the INTELSAT / COMSAT satellites.

In 2001, the European Parliament determined that the Echelon network, which will include Sugar Grove Station, is being used to eavesdrop on private and commercial communications.

There used to be two Wullenweber circular antenna systems of the type AN / FRD-10, the outlines of which can still be seen on satellite photos.

literature

Patrick Radden Keefe, Chatter: Uncovering the Echelon Surveillance Network and the Secret World of Global Eavesdropping, ISBN 978-0-8129-6827-9 ( online on Google Books, see e.g. page 56 )

Web links

Overview Echelon from the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Baden-Württemberg ( Archive ( Memento from August 3, 2013 on WebCite ))

Individual evidence

↑ Public website of the US Navy from April 1, 2013: History of the Sugar Grove base ( Memento of the original from March 12, 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. @1@ 2
↑ Duncan Campbell : Somebody's listening ( English , PDF; 1.5 MB) July 30, 2013. Archived from the original on July 30, 2013. Retrieved July 16, 2013.
↑ Duncan Campbell: Telepolis magazine by Heise Verlag from July 24, 2000: Inside Echelon
↑ World-Information.Org ( English ) In: world-information.org . Archived from the original on July 30, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
↑ 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 55, Section Sugar Grove, USA for the station itself, and on page 1 the title of the document for the type of determination)
↑ Former Wullenweber antenna arrays of the US Navy, Army and Airforce ( Memento from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) ()

[1] Public website of the US Navy from April 1, 2013: History of the Sugar Grove base ( Memento of the original from March 12, 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. @1@ 2

[duncancampbell-2] Duncan Campbell : Somebody's listening ( English , PDF; 1.5 MB) July 30, 2013. Archived from the original on July 30, 2013. Retrieved July 16, 2013.

[3] Duncan Campbell: Telepolis magazine by Heise Verlag from July 24, 2000: Inside Echelon

[world-information-echelon-stations-4] World-Information.Org ( English ) In: world-information.org . Archived from the original on July 30, 2013. Retrieved July 30, 2013.

[5] 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 55, Section Sugar Grove, USA for the station itself, and on page 1 the title of the document for the type of determination)

[6] Former Wullenweber antenna arrays of the US Navy, Army and Airforce ( Memento from September 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) ()