Waihopai Station

The Waihopai Station in the Waihopai Valley in the Marlborough District in New Zealand is a facility of the New Zealand intelligence service Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB).

Like the Tangimoana station , the system is part of the Echelon project and intercepts the telecommunications of the Intelsat 701 satellite , which was commissioned in January 1994 and serves the Pacific region.

As part of the publications on the surveillance and espionage affair in 2013 , it became known that the system's servers are also used to operate the XKeyscore spy software , which the US intelligence service NSA is supposed to use to monitor a large part of the world's Internet connections.

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

^ Nicky Hager: Secret Power, New Zealand's role in the international spy network. Craig Potton, 1996, Chapter 2
↑ World-Information.Org. In: world-information.org. Archived from the original on July 30, 2013 ; accessed on July 30, 2013 (English).
↑ Snowden reveals Australia's links to US spy web. The Sidney Morning Herald, accessed July 21, 2013 .

-41.576389 173.738889Coordinates: 41 ° 34 ′ 35 ″ S , 173 ° 44 ′ 20 ″ E

[1] Nicky Hager: Secret Power, New Zealand's role in the international spy network. Craig Potton, 1996, Chapter 2

[world-information-echelon-stations-2] World-Information.Org. In: world-information.org. Archived from the original on July 30, 2013 ; accessed on July 30, 2013 (English).

[smh-3] Snowden reveals Australia's links to US spy web. The Sidney Morning Herald, accessed July 21, 2013 .