HOC Library on US Sigint in Europe

[Peter Sommer]

As far as I know the first written public hint about UKUSA agreement came
in a 1972 article in Ramparts magazine from a then-anonymous Winslow Peck.
It explained the role of various NSA eavesdropping stations (in those
days, HF rather than satellite).  In the UK the Guardian mentioned the
article and, if memory serves, pinpointed Chicksands in Bedforsdhire as
one location.  Duncan will correct me,  but this article helped him in his
researches at the time.

Jmaes Bamford's "Puzzle Palace"  (1982), that great souce book on the NSA,
 has several pages on the scope of UKSUA while  Jeffrey Richelson and
Desmond Ball's 1985 book, "The Ties that Bind" was specifically about the
UKUSA.

Duncan has already provided his own bibliography.

Why is it, I wonder,  always more exciting to hear about rumoured
"revelations" than to take a trip to the library or punch a few words into
the right databases?


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