GCSB Tangimoana
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The Government Communications Security Bureau operates what it describes as a radio communications interception facility[1][2] at Tangimoana, near Foxton, 150 km north of Wellington. According to the Federation of American Scientists (FAS), the facility is part of ECHELON, the worldwide network of signals interception facilities run by the UKUSA consortium of intelligence agencies (which shares global electronic and signals intelligence among the Intelligence agencies of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and NZ); its role in this capacity was first identified publicly by peace researcher Owen Wilkes in 1984.[3], and investigated in detail by peace activist and independent journalist Nicky Hagar.[4]
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According to the FAS, the equipment at the Tangimoana facility is "is equally capable of receiving signals transmitted by radio and satellite which do not include foreign intelligence and which are domestic concerning and involving NZ citizens."[5]
