Tom Kings Report to his Toniness

[Ken Brown]

Donald ramsbottom wrote:
> 
> Just some snippets from the Intelligence and security committee report
> 1999-2000 by Tom King to his Toniness. I got my copy via cryptome.
> 
> "14. GCHQ has continued to provide valuable intelligence for both policy
> makers and operational deployments of UK forces. *** of their effort is
> targeted against Russia, which includes strategic, political, and military
> reporting, *** on terrorism, and *** on the Balkans. The quality of
> intelligence gathered clearly reflects the value of the close co-operation
> under the UKUSA agreement. A recent illustration of this occurred when the
> US National Security Agency's (NSA) equipment accidentally failed and for
> some three days US customers, as well as GCHQ's normal UK customers, were
> served directly from GCHQ6.

Typical annual-report budget-justification language.  What equipment
accidentally failed? The entire of NSA's network? Or the coffee machine
in the UK naval attache's office in Baltimore? I think we should be told
:-)

Ken