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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Geraldton Station

Latitude: -28.7786, Longitude: 114.6008

The Geraldton station is officially called the Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station, ADSCS. The station targets mainly the second Pacific Intelsat, 703 and the two main Indian Ocean Intelsats, at 60 and 63 degrees east. Another target is likely to be the new Intelsat positioned, in 1992, at 91.5 degrees east, between South East Asia and India. So Geraldton interception concentrates entirely on Indian Ocean and Asian satellites.

Source: Nicky Hager, Secret Power, New Zealand's role in the internatinal spy network, (Craig Potton, 1996) p.183-185

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