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"Frenchelon" is the nickname given to the
History
Its existence has never been officially acknowledged by French authorities, although numerous journalists, based on military information, have mentioned it, since the
Operations
The system is allegedly operated by
There are some other stations in overseas territories and former colonies:
- Saint-Barthélemy
- Bouar, Central African Republic
- Djibouti (Camp Lemonnier - closed, now occupied by Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa): new center built recently between French Air Force Base and French Foreign Legioncamp in Djibouti.
- Mayotte (Closed in 1998)
- Réunion
- Kourou, French Guiana
- and base aeronavale La Tontouta in New Caledonia
These stations, in addition to the DGSE headquarters on boulevard Mortier in Paris, intercept and decipher electronic communications using software coded communications of diplomatic, military or industrial origin.
French newspapers recently indicated that DGSE had an interception program on submarine cables, similar to NSA ones. No official data indicates whether this could be a part of FRENCHELON.
It should not be confused with the French Army's official listening system Emeraude (Ensemble mobile écoute et recherche automatique des émissions),[3] which used to be mistakenly confused with Frenchelon[citation needed].
References
- ^ "La France se met à l'espionnage" (in French). Free (ISP). Retrieved 11 June 2013.
Frenchelon (ou French Echelon) est le surnom donné au réseau d'écoute de la DGSE. Le véritable nom de ce système d'écoute n'est pas connu (contrairement à ce que nous expliquions, ce n'est pas Emeraude)
- ^ "Spies Like Us". WSJ. Retrieved 2023-04-11.
- ^ (in French) Emeraude : Ensemble mobile d’écoute et de recherche automatique des émissions (Mobile set for listening and automatic searches of emissions)
Further reading
- Jerome Thorel (June 30, 2000). "Frenchelon - France has nothing to envy in Echelon". ZDNet.
- Duncan Campbell; Richard Barry (June 30, 2000). "Frenchelon: First pictures of French listening post". ZDNet.