I think there's one more for y'all
MichaelP

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London Telegraph   Connected Magazine Tuesday 16 December 1997
   Issue 936

           Cooking up a charter for snooping

   Spies like US

   Britain is bound to the national security interests of other nations.
   In 1947 the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom,
   Canada, Australia and New Zealand signed a national security pact
   known as the United Kingdom - United States (UKUSA) agreement. Its
   intention was to seal an intelligence bond in which a common national
   security objective was created.

   Disclosures to the US Congress reveal some of the functions of the
   agreements. Under the terms of the five nations carved up the Earth
   into five spheres of influence, and each country was assigned
   particular targets. (Britain was responsible for intercepting the
   Chinese).

   The UKUSA Agreement standardised terminology, code words, intercept
   handling procedures, arrangements for cooperation, sharing of
   information, and access to facilities.

   One important component of the agreement was the exchange of data and
   personnel. The link means that NSA operatives from Fort Meade could
   work from Menwith Hill to intercept local communications without
   either nation having to formally approve or disclose the interception.

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