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              | Date: 2000-02-26 
 
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 Nach seinem Auftritt vor dem EU-Parlament gibt Duncan
 Campbell jetzt den Namen jener ehemaligen NSA-
 Mitarbeiterin bekannt, auf deren Information der erste Artikel
 über den Moloch ECHELON aus dem Jahr 1988 basiert.
 
 Frau Newsham hat gesprochen, weil sie die Abhörerei nicht
 mehr mit ihrem Gewissen vereinbaren konnte. Damit hatte
 sie sich aus der sogenannten "Intelligence Community"
 ausgeschlossen, alle sozialen Kontakte waren weg, der
 Anschluß an die zivile Gesellschaft fiel ihr zumindest schwer.
 Bo Elkjaer [auch auf dieser Liste], der sie kürzlich besucht
 hat, beschreibt sie als schwer krank.
 
 Wir leiten gerne [in Englisch abgefasste] Post an Peg
 Newsham weiter, falls sich jemand bei ihr für ihren Mut
 bedanken will.
 
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 Making history: the original source for the 1988 first Echelon
 report steps forward
 
 Duncan Campbell
 
 London, Friday 25 February, 2000
 
 In the circumstances of the extensive worldwide political and
 media attention that is currently focussed on the Echelon
 communications surveillance network, I wish to pay tribute to
 the person who first alerted the United States legislature and
 the world to the existence of Echelon.
 
 Following the presentation of my report on Echelon and
 related Sigint systems to the European Parliament in
 Brussels earlier this week, my principal original source has
 said that she may be identified.
 
 I published the first-ever report about Echelon in the British
 political weekly New Statesman on 12 August 1988. The
 information about Echelon in that report came principally from
 Margaret Newsham, a computer systems manager who is
 now in retirement.
 
 Margaret Newsham, better known as Peg, was formerly
 employed by a contractor at the National Security Agency
 Field Station at Menwith Hill, Yorkshire, England. From
 August 1978 onwards, she worked at Menwith Hill as a
 software system support co-ordinator. In this capacity, she
 helped managed a number of Sigint computer databases,
 including "Echelon 2". She and others also helped establish
 the "Silkworth" system at Menwith Hill. Silkworth is the
 ground processing system for the series of signals
 intelligence satellites initially known as Chalet, Vortex and
 Mercury.
 
 Later, on transferring to Sunnyvale, California, Peg Newsham
 worked for Lockheed Space and Missiles Corporation. In that
 capacity, she became aware of the plans drawn up for the
 massive expansion of the Echelon network, a project
 identified internally as P-415.
 
 During her employment by Lockheed, she became
 concerned about corruption, fraud and abuse within the
 organisations planning and operating electronic surveillance
 systems such as Echelon. She drew these matters to the
 attention of the House Permanent Select Committee on
 Intelligence early in 1988.
 
 While working at Menwith Hill, she witnessed the interception
 of a telephone call made by US Senator Strom Thurmond.
 Although this incident was reported to the House Committee,
 no substantive investigation took place, and no report was
 made to Congress.
 
 Full text
 http://cryptome.org/echelon-mndc.htm
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 published on: 2000-02-26
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