PageLink-Intel - GCSB, New Zealand - Government Communications Security Bureau

GCSB NEW ZEALAND FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE (See also:  Domestic Intel - NZSIS - Security Intelligence Services - here) Hon Christopher Finlayson, Attorney-General- here 2015/16 the budget: $89.6 million Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) national security part of ECHELON see Nicky Hager, writer (book) David Lange { report released in error } - Targets of GCSB: Japan, Philippines, Argentina, France, Vietnam, + many small Pacific island states. + United Nations diplomatic traffic. Two listening stations + Secret Post + Southern Cross fibre-optic cable: Waihopai Station 1) SATELLITE communications interception station - Waihopai (near Blenheim) Part of ECHELON intercepts and processes all phone calls, faxes, e-mail and computer data communications. Tangimoana Station 2) RADIO communications interception station at GCSB Tangimoana (near Palmerston North) Part of ECHELON 3) Secret listening post codenamed "Caprica" - NZ High Commission in Honiara, Solomon Islands 4) Southern Cross Cable 95% international internet access point Construction & Ownership 1999: laid by the ship 'CS Vercors' Spark New Zealand (50.01%) SingTel (39.99%) Verizon Business (10.00%) mass surveillance - internet & phone traffic - 95% all NZ traffic (part trans-Pacific network of telecommunications cables) operated by Bermuda company Southern Cross Cables Limited Southern Cross Cables Limited asked NSA to pay them for MASS SURVEILLANCE allows government to spy on all phone calls and internet traffic from New Zealand  { NZ govt denies & claims merely negotiation w/ NSA } collection and processing of intel distribution of intel information assurance | cyber security Signals Intelligence Communications Security Anti-Bugging Measures Computer / IT security technology Foreign intelligence Assistance to other NZ govt agencies GCSB reports to the minister holding the Intelligence portfolio by convention: always the Prime Minister * Illegal surveillance of Kim Dotcom Shortly before Fletcher (head GCSB) was appointed, the GCSB illegally spied on Kim Dotcom, a German national but New Zealand resident. By law the agency cannot spy on New Zealand residents. The GCSB admitted that Hugh Wolfensohn, acting director at the time, knew the organisation was spying on Dotcom. Kitteridge Report *may have unlawfully spied on up to 85 ppl b/w April 2003 and Sept 2012 (Kitteridge report, leaked - Rebecca Kitteridge, Cabinet Secretary) Ian Fletcher (former diplomat) = Director GCSB controversy re appointment (forgotten friend of John keys) ---------------------- ꕤ  ---------------------- SOURCE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Communications_Security_Bureau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Cross_Cable ꕤ