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Other countries, that are said to be involved in ECHELON:
ITALY
| UKUSA Third Party
| NATO
| TURKEY
| UKUSA Third Party
| NATO
| GERMANY
| UKUSA Third Party
| NATO
| JAPAN
| UKUSA Third Party
| 1972 Project COMET, 1982 Weinberger show misuse of japanese technology transfer to russia
| GREECE
| UKUSA Third Party
| NATO
| NORWAY
| UKUSA Third Party
| 1950 Genetrix Balloons, 1963 Project South Sea
SIGINT stations are operated by personnel of Norwegian Military Intelligence but were erected by the NSA and operated for them. CIA and NSA personnel were regularly on assignment at those stations.
| DENMARK
| UKUSA Third Party
| NATO
| SOUTH KOREA
| UKUSA Third Party
| ?
| THAILAND
| UKUSA Third Party
| ?
| PAKISTAN
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| CIA covert assistance to Afghan rebels trough Pakistan, mujaahdeen camps : trainers from CIA, ELINT from Soviet Union and South East Asia,
| FINLAND
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| NSA purchases RADINT from Soviet Union by VKL
| ISRAEL
| Mossad, AMAN,
CIA, FBI, DIA, NSA, Foreign Technology Division,Foreign
Science and Technology Center
| 1951 James Jesus Angleton CIA
| MEXICO
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| Soviet embassy interception
| PHILLIPINES
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| ?
| CHINA
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| 1970 Kissinger,1978 Abramowitz, basic agreement in 1980, CIA informs China about possible threats from Russia and moslem countries, 2 station were built; another joint project: 9 seismic monitoring stations; ILD and CIA conduct operations against soviet-backed forces in Angola, Cambodia, Afghanistan
| AUSTRIA
| UKUSA Third Party
| ?, ILETS, Enfopol
| Russia
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| 1990 Iraqi Invasion
| SOUTH AFRICA
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| 1960
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Source: Jeffrey T. Richelson, The U.S. Intelligence Community, (Westview Press, 4th ed., 1999) p278-302
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World Wide Web (WWW)
Probably the most significant Internet service, the World Wide Web is not the essence of the Internet, but a subset of it. It is constituted by documents that are linked together in a way you can switch from one document to another by simply clicking on the link connecting these documents. This is made possible by the Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML), the authoring language used in creating World Wide Web-based documents. These so-called hypertexts can combine text documents, graphics, videos, sounds, and  Java applets, so making multimedia content possible.
Especially on the World Wide Web, documents are often retrieved by entering keywords into so-called search engines, sets of programs that fetch documents from as many servers as possible and index the stored information. (For regularly updated lists of the 100 most popular words that people are entering into search engines, click  here). No search engine can retrieve all information on the whole World Wide Web; every search engine covers just a small part of it.
Among other things that is the reason why the World Wide Web is not simply a very huge database, as is sometimes said, because it lacks consistency. There is virtually almost infinite storage capacity on the Internet, that is true, a capacity, which might become an almost everlasting too, a prospect, which is sometimes consoling, but threatening too.
According to the Internet domain survey of the Internet Software Consortium the number of Internet host computers is growing rapidly. In October 1969 the first two computers were connected; this number grows to 376.000 in January 1991 and 72,398.092 in January 2000.
World Wide Web History Project, http://www.webhistory.org/home.html
 http://www.searchwords.com/
http://www.islandnet.com/deathnet/
http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/feature/199...
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