ECHELON Main Stations Location Country Target/Task Relations MORWENSTOW UK INTELSAT, Atlantic, Europe, Indian Ocean NSA, GCHQ SUGAR GROVE USA INTELSAT, Atlantic, North and South America NSA YAKIMA FIRING CENTER USA INTELSAT, Pacific NSA WAIHOPAI NEW ZEALAND INTELSAT, Pacific NSA, GCSB GERALDTON AUSTRALIA INTELSAT, Pacific NSA, DSD MENWITH HILL UK Sat, Groundstation, Microwave(land based) NSA, GCHQ SHOAL BAY AUSTRALIA Indonesian Sat NSA, DSD LEITRIM CANADA Latin American Sat NSA, CSE BAD AIBLING GERMANY Sat, Groundstation NSA MISAWA JAPAN Sat NSA PINE GAP AUSTRALIA Groundstation CIA FORT MEADE USA Dictionary Processing NSA Headquarters WASHINGTON USA Dictionary Processing NSA OTTAWA CANADA Dictionary Processing CSE CHELTENHAM UK Dictionary Processing GCHQ CANBERRA AUSTRALIA Dictionary Processing DSD WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND Dictionary Processing GCSB Headquarters

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Table: Media References to Major U.S. Think Tanks Think Tank Political Orientation Number of Media Citations 1995 Number of Media Citations 1996 Number of Media Citations 1997 Brookings Institution U.S. Centrist 2192 2196 2296 Heritage Foundation U.S. Conservative 2268 1779 1813 American Enterprise Institute U.S. Conservative 1297 1401 1323 Cato Institute U.S. Conservative/libertarian 1163 1136 1286 RAND Corporation U.S. Center-right 795 826 865 Council on Foreign Relations U.S. Centrist 747 727 755 Center for Strategic and International Studies U.S. Conservative 612 586 668 Urban Institute U.S. Center-left 749 655 610 Economic Policy Institute U.S. Progressive 399 452 576 Freedom Forum U.S. Centrist 496 625 531 Hudson Institute U.S. Conservative 354 396 481 Institute for International Economics U.S. Centrist 410 288 438 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities U.S. Progressive - 359 425 Hoover Institution U.S. Conservative 570 350 355 Carnegie Endowment U.S. Centrist 517 502 352 Competitive Enterprise Institute U.S. Conservative 298 205 290 Manhattan Institute U.S. Conservative 254 227 261 Progressive Policy Institute U.S. Centrist 455 279 251 International Institute for Strategic Studies U.S. Conservative 177 145 177 Institute for Policy Studies U.S. Progressive 161 110 172 Worldwatch Institute U.S. Progressive 201 186 168 Center for Defense Information U.S. Progressive 136 187 158 Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies U.S. Center-left 255 228 158 Progress and Freedom Foundation U.S. Conservative 570 234 122 Reason Foundation U.S. Conservative/libertarian 229 133 92

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The Microsoft Case Shortly after Microsoft was faced with federal antitrust charges, full-page newspaper ads supporting Microsoft's claim of innocence were run by the Independent Institute. The ads took the form of a letter signed by 240 academic experts and purported to be a scholarly, unbiased view of why the government had gone overboard in its case against the company. According to an article published in the New York Times, Microsoft had not paid for the ads, but was in fact the single largest donor to the Independent Institute, a conservative organization, that has been a leading defender of the company since it first came under fire from federal prosecutors.

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Slobodan Milosevic Slobodan Milosevic (* 1941) is a Serbian political leader. As a young man S. Milosevic joined the Communist Party, in 1984 the banker became head of the local Communist Party of Belgrade, in 1987 head of the Serb CP. Since 1989 he has been president of Serbia (since 1997 president of the new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). During his reign the Yugoslav Republic broke up, bringing about the independence of Slovenia and Croatia and the war in Bosnia. In 1998 the Kosovo Crisis started.

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Time Warner The largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world. The corporation resulted from the merger of the publisher Time Inc. and the media conglomerate Warner Communications Inc. in 1989. It acquired the Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS) in 1996. Time Warner Inc.'s products encompass magazines, hardcover books, comic books, recorded music, motion pictures, and broadcast and cable television programming and distribution. The company's headquarters are in New York City. In January 2000 Time Warner merged with AOL (America Online), which owns several online-services like Compuserve, Netscape and Netcenter in a US$ 243,3 billion deal.

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