Imagine the reporter’s surprise when the head of the Defence Signals Directorate rang him out of the blue to talk about the listening station monitoring Chinese satellites and much more.
And when the reporter ran the name Echelon past the defence minister at the time,Kim Beazley,Mr Beazley responded with,“How do you know about that?”
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