coucou789456 wrote:Good evening
it seems to me that echelon is older than 2001, ......In 1943, the United States and the United Kingdom, then engaged in the Second World War, sign a cooperation agreement in the interception of communicationsthese two countries signed in 1947 the UKUSA treaty (United-Kingdom - United States of America). They were quickly joined by Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Third countries (Germany, Norway, Turkey) then sign SIGINT treaties with the United States, thus benefiting from restricted access to the UKUSA network.
here in a few words gleaned from the net what it looks like ...
restricted access, hummmm ... and France is where, or else we would have been lied to ...
lived democracy !
jeff
Seen from this angle, it immediately brings to mind the N_S_A
Edit: mwouais Coucou, why you do not indicate your source:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon
It is so "strategic" that I seem to have heard that France had also decided to do something in this area since then.