Spy Network

A global electronic spy network that can eavesdrop on every telephone, email and telex communication around the world has been officially acknowledged in a recent European Commission report, 'Assessing the Technologies of Political Control'. The report contains details of a network of American-controlled spy stations on British soil, including Menwith Hill, that "routinely and indiscriminately" monitors countless phone, fax and email messages. It confirms that the citizens of Britain and other European states are subject to an intensity of surveillance far in excess of that imagined by most parliaments.

For more than a decade former agents of US, British, Canadian and New Zealand national security agencies have claimed that the monitoring of electronic communications has become endemic throughout the world. Rumours have circulated that new technologies have been developed which have the capability to search most of the world's telex, fax and email networks for "keywords". You have been warned.