Title: Secret power
First published: 1996
Description: “The most detailed and up-to-date account of the work of any signals intelligence agency in existence… a masterpiece of investigative reporting.” The book contains the first detailed account of the world-wide electronic surveillance system called Echelon, which is used to spy on international communications including e-mails and phone calls. These revelations have been repeated in hundreds of articles, documentaries and movies, and prompted for a year-long European parliament inquiry. The book gives an inside look at New Zealand’s largest intelligence agency and its part in a US-British-Canadian-Australia-New Zealand intelligence alliance, information that helps us understand the workings of all five allied agencies. — Author
Subjects: Electronic intelligence, Intelligence service, International cooperation, New Zealand, New Zealand. Government Communications Security Bureau
Places: New Zealand
LC classification: JQ5829.I6 H34 1996