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A glimpse of SIGINT 20 years ago...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Jan 26 15:10:54 2006
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:05:05 -0500
This is a couple of weeks old, but it appears that, by accident, a lot
of information on the targets and methods being used for
US/Australian/NZ SIGINT about 20 years ago has come to light as the
result of the release of a late New Zealand Prime Minister's papers.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/print/0,1478,3540743a6005,00.html
Among other things:
The report lists the Tangimoana station's targets in 1985-86 as
"French South Pacific civil, naval and military; French Antarctic
civil; Vietnamese diplomatic; North Korean diplomatic; Egyptian
diplomatic; Soviet merchant and scientific research shipping; Soviet
Antarctic civil. Soviet fisheries; Argentine naval; Non-Soviet
Antarctic civil; East German diplomatic; Japanese diplomatic;
Philippine diplomatic; South African Armed Forces; Laotian diplomatic
(and) UN diplomatic."
The station intercepted 165,174 messages from these targets, "an
increase of approximately 37,000 on the 84/85 figure. Reporting on the
Soviet target increased by 20% on the previous year".
Hat tip to Bruce Schneier's blog for reminding me about it.
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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