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ECHELON: The NSA's Global Spying Network i fi 50. Shane and Bowman, ibid. Big Brother Spy Net", Financial Mail, UK, Continued from page 83 BI. Ibid. March 1. 1998. 50. Shane and Bowman, ibid. 51. Ibid. 52. Merritt, John, "UK: GCHQ Spies on Charities and Companies: Fearful Whistleblowers Tell of Massive Routine Abuse", Observer, London, June 18, 1992. 53. O'Shaughnessy, Hugh, "Thatcher Ordered Lonrho Phone-Tap Over Harrods Affairs", Observer, London, June 28, 1992; cited in Hager, Nicky, Secret Power: New Zealand's Role in the International Spy Network, Craig Potton Publishing, Nelson, New Zealand, 1996, p. 54. 54. "The Hill", Dispatches, BBC Channel 4, October 6, 1993. 55. Bowman, Tom and Shane, Scott, "Battling High-Tech Warriors," Baltimore Sun, December 15, 1995. 56. Dreyfuss, Robert, "Company Spies", Mother Jones, May/June 1994. 57. Cited in Livesey, Bruce, "Trolling for Secrets: Economic Espionage is the New Niche for Government Spies", Financial Post, Canada, February 28, 1998. 58. "US Spy Agency Helped US Companies Win Business Overseas", Nikkei English News, September 21, 1998. 59. Maier, Timothy W., "Did Clinton Bug Conclave for Cash?", Insight, September 15, 1997. The three-article series is online at . 60. Maier, Timothy W., "Snoops, Sex and Videotape", Insight, September 29, 1997. 61. Fletcher, Matthew, "Cook Faces Quiz on Big Brother Spy Net", Financial Mail, UK, March 1, 1998. 62. Livesey, op. cit. 63. Frost and Gratton, ibid., pp. 224-227. 64. Redmond, Lucille, "Suddenly There Came a Tapping...", The Sunday Business Post, Ireland, March 9, 1998. 65. National Broadcasting Company, "Meet the Press", August 17, 1975; transcript published by Merkle Press, Washington, DC, 1975, p. 6; quoted in Bamford, p. 477. 66. The full report can be found online at: . 67. See . 68. Paterson, Tony, "US spy satellites ‘raiding German firms' secrets", The Sunday Telegraph, London, April 11, 1999. 69. Verton, Daniel, "Congress, NSA butt heads over ECHELON", Federal Computer Week, June 3, 1999, . 40. Halperin and Berman, p. 153; US Commission on CIA Activities within the United States, Report to the President, US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1975, p. 144n3. 41. 50 USC Sec. 1801, et seq. 42. For more information on the FISC, refer to this author's essay, "Inside America's Secret Court: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court", The Privacy Papers, No. 2, Free Congress Foundation, Washington, DC, 1998, posted at author's website, at . 43. Frost, Mike and Gratton, Michel, Spyworld: How CSE Spies on Canadians and the World, Seal/McClelland-Bantam, Toronto, 1995, pp. 234-238. 44. Ibid., p. 238. 45. lbid., pp. 93-97. 46. Shane, Scott and Bowman, Tom, "Catching Americans in NSA's Net", Baltimore Sun, December 12, 1995. 47. Epstein, Keith C. and Long, John S., "Security Agency Accused of Monitoring US Calls", Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 1, 1988, pp. 1A, 10A. 48. Carey, Pete, "NSA Accused of Forbidden Phone Taps", San Jose Mercury News, July 2, 1988, p. 1A. 49. Campbell, Duncan, "Somebody's Listening", The New Statesman, August 12, 1988, p. 11. About the Author: Patrick S. Poole is a lecturer in government and economics at Bannockburn College in Franklin, Tennessee, USA, having previously served as Deputy Director of the Center for Technology Policy in Washington, DC. He contributes frequently to several publications on the topics of privacy and civil liberties. NEXUS - 85 OCTOBER — NOVEMBER 1999