Date sent: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:22:30 -0400 To: =09 politech@politechbot.com From: Declan McCullagh=20 Subject: FC: Echelon vexes German=20 officials, international news roundup Send reply to: =09 declan@well.com relayed Ralf Bendrath via declan@well.com=20 Declan, this might be of interest for Politech readers. There is rising=20 anger in Germany after the draft report of the Echelon=20 committee of the European Parliament was published.=20 Especially the Green Party in the German Government, but=20 as well lots of people from other parties don=B4t like the whole=20 thing at all. On the other hand, as far as I remember, the=20 station to close was snooping on the U.K. since the end of=20 the cold war - so maybe this was meant to be nice to the=20 Brits so they will be nice to the U.S. and don=B4t give in to the=20 demands of their European partners, that is: Be European!=20 No Comment so far from the German government. Ralf http://www.vulcan.belvoir.army.mil/bas_to_close.asp US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM)=20 INSCOM POC: Shirley Startzman, (703) 706-1283 Bad Aibling Station to close FORT BELVOIR, VA. May 31, 2001 - The U.S. Forces=20 stationed at Bad Aibling Station (BAS), Germany, will be=20 consolidated and realigned according to an announcement=20 today. The Department of Defense made the decision at the=20 request of the Director of the National Security Agency/Chief,=20 Central Security Service (NSA/CSS). Current operations at=20 the U.S. Government facility at Bad Aibling will cease on=20 Sept. 30, 2002, with return of the facility to the German=20 Government to be completed by fiscal year 2003. The U.S.=20 personnel currently stationed at BAS will gradually be=20 reassigned to other operational units. Bad Aibling Station is=20 an integral part of the Department of Defense=20 communications network and provides support to U.S. and=20 allied interests. There has been a U.S. presence in Bad=20 Aibling since 1947. The U.S. Army took command of the=20 station in 1952. In 1971, the station became a predominately=20 civilian operation managed by NSA. In 1972, its name was=20 changed to the current Bad Aibling Station. In 1994, BAS=20 management was transferred from NSA to the U.S. Army=20 Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). Bad Aibling=20 Station is located in the village of Mietraching and is=20 approximately two miles from the center of the town of Bad=20 Aibling, Germany. Bad Aibling is a Bavarian resort town=20 located about 35 miles southeast of Munich.