4 ms·
In the 90s I remember critical media linking Sandagergård to the Echelon Project. There were also rumors about foreign contractors operating at the facility. I
by liversage 6y ago
In the 90s I remember critical media linking Sandagergård to the Echelon Project. There were also rumors about foreign contractors operating at the facility.
I've always thought about this when I was near Sandagergård (it's situated in a beautiful place off the beaten path not far from Copenhagen) but as far as I remember the stories where mostly based on speculation without any hard facts. With these recent disclosures it seems that there might have been some truth to those old stories.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
- Dahoon 6y agoAs someone who has heard my father re-tell the same story at least 20 times of the time back in the 90's when he was out walking his dog near Sandagergård and was stopped at a military checkpoint by soldiers talking American English to him this almost feels like déjà vu. Anyone who used the area knows Americans was there.
- toyg 6y ago> it seems that there might have been some truth to those old stories It's really weird to see confirmed, year after year, that all those "conspiracy theories" (first circulated on the '90s internet) turned out to be almost entirely true, when it comes to network-based espionage. Echelon/five eyes? Check. Massive network surveillance? Check. Compromised ciphers? Check. Compromised hardware manufacturers? Check. NSA being fundamentally devoid of oversight? Check. US espionage targeting allies for industrial gain? Check, check, aand check. This shit was ridiculed back then, and it makes so hard to discern what is true in contemporary news reporting.