| 
  
    |  | 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 
 
 |  | 
 
 
 
 
  
 |  | 
  
    | 
        
          |  Alexander Graham Bell b., March 3, 1847, Edinburgh
 
 d. Aug. 2, 1922, Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada
 
 American audiologist and inventor wrongly remembered for having invented the telephone in 1876. Although Bell introduced the first commercial application of the telephone, in fact a German teacher called Reiss invented it.
 
 For more detailed information see the Encyclopaedia Britannica: http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/1/0,5716,15411+1+15220,00.html
 
 
 |  |  |