First Echelon Source

[Ian BROWN]

Never fear, Disillusioned... Duncan Campbell rides to the rescue!
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Spy agencies listened in on Diana 
Nick Fielding and Duncan Campbell 
The Sunday Times, 27 February 2000

SPY agencies in Britain and America eavesdropped on
Diana, Princess of Wales and Mark Thatcher, son of the
former prime minister, as part of a global system of
monitoring communications, according to former intelligence
officials...

"I just think of Echelon as a great vacuum cleaner in the sky
which sucks everything up," said Mike Frost, a former
Canadian intelligence officer. "We just get to look at the
goodies." 

Frost, who retired in 1992 after 20 years' service, has also
revealed that Canada's equivalent of GCHQ was used by
Margaret Thatcher to monitor two cabinet colleagues. "She
wanted to find out not what they were saying," Frost said,
"but what they were thinking." 

The ultra-secret operation was conducted from an office at
Macdonald House in Grosvenor Square, central London,
which houses the Canadian high commission. According to
Frost, Canadian spies were asked by GCHQ to undertake
the operation because it was too politically sensitive for
GCHQ to do itself. After spending three weeks tapping the
ministers' communications, the Canadian officer who led the
operation drove to GCHQ and handed over the tapes...

http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/02/27/stinwenws02035.html?104481
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