ECHELON Intelligence Budget
Until now it was not possible to find out the specific segmenting of intelligence budgets as far as the ECHELON project is concerned. Many experts agree that ECHELON specific costs are woven into the complex budgets of several intelligence units. Money comes also from the host countries and Partners in the UKUSA Agreement.
For further reading:
 http://www.usbudget.com/military/
http://www.access.gpo.gov/int/int017.html
http://www.fas.org/irp/budget.html
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1995_cr/sen29sep.htm
Refocus Intelligence Priorities:
http://www.fas.org/pub/gen/mswg/msbb98/tt08int.htm
>Approximately $27.6 Billion requested for 1999. The Congress has proposed an increase over the Clinton administration request. Almost all of this effort is devoted to exploiting the disciplines that were of primary importance during the Cold War: imagery intelligence [IMINT], signals intelligence [SIGINT], and human intelligence [HUMINT]. But with the end of the Cold War new disciplines, measurements and signature intelligence [MASINT] and open source intelligence [OSINT] are of far greater relevance to contemporary and emerging security concerns and intelligence needs, ranging from counter-proliferation activities to peace-keeping operations.<
Organization Annual Budget Staff
NRO 6,2 billion $ 1.700
NSA 3,6 billion $ 21.000 (- 40.000?)
CIA 3,1 billion $ 16.000
For comparison: CSE has only a $200-300 million dollar budget.
In 1988 Duncan Campbell wrote (http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/echelon-dc.htm): >With 15,000 staff and a budget of over £500 million a year (even without the planned Zircon spy satellite), GCHQ is by far the largest part of British intelligence. Successive UK governments have placed high value on its eavesdropping capabilities, whether against Russian military signals or the easier commercial and private civilian targets. Recently published US Department of Defense 1989 budget information has confirmed that the Menwith Hill spy base will be the subject of a major $26 million expansion programme. Information given to Congress in February listed details of plans for a four-year expansion of the main operation building and other facilities at Menwith Hill. Although the testimony referred only to a "classified location", the base can be identified because of references to STEEPLEBUSH. According to this testimony, the new STEEPLEBUSH II project will cost $15 million between now and 1993. The expansion is required to avoid overcrowding and "to support expanding classified missions".<
And another view on the relation between the several intelligence units as far as budget is concerned: "Spying Budget Is Made Public By Mistake", By Tim Weiner The New York Times, November 5 1994
>By mistake, a Congressional subcommittee has published an unusually detailed breakdown of the highly classified "black budget" for United States intelligence agencies. In previously defeating a bill that would have made this information public, the White House, CIA and Pentagon argued that revealing the secret budget would cause GRAVE DAMAGE to the NATIONAL SECURITY of the United States. $3.1 billion for the CIA $10.4 billion for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines special-operations units $13.2 billion for the NSA/NRO/DIA <
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ECHELON Other involved countries
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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