There is an excellent people's author (as opposed to Corporate).
Named Mike Parenti, any relation?
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> 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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>