| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakima_Training_Center#National_Security_Agency
In April 2013, the Yakima Herald reported that the Yakima Research Station
was
going to be shut down at some unspecified time in the future with its function
moving to a facility in Colorado. The office of the Congressman in whose
district
the facility is located was notified by the NSA in summer 2012 that the facility
was going to be shut down. This was subsequently confirmed with the Navy
posting an OPNAV notice of closure. The functions of the facilities will
be moved to the Aerospace Data Facility at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado
and result in the loss of 100 or more jobs from the Yakima area. According
to James Bamford, the facility's focus on satellite communications led to
its closure. "That’s history now", said Bamford in 2013. "Cyberspace
and [supercomputers] are the frontier."
Previous:
https://cryptome.org/eyeball/yrs/yrs-eyeball.htm
See:
http://www.iptvreports.mcmail.com/ic2kreport.htm
Interception Capabilities 2000
By Duncan Campbell
45. Systematic collection of COMSAT ILC communications began in 1971. Two
ground stations were built for this purpose. The first at Morwenstow, Cornwall,
England had two 30-metre antennae. One intercepted communications from the
Atlantic Ocean Intelsat; the other the Indian Ocean Intelsat. The second
Intelsat interception site was at Yakima, Washington in the northwestern
United States. NSA's "Yakima Research Station" intercepted communications
passing through the Pacific Ocean Intelsat satellite.
46. ILC interception capability against western-run communications satellites
remained at this level until the late 1970s, when a second US site at Sugar
Grove, West Virginia was added to the network. By 1980, its three satellite
antenna had been reassigned to the US Naval Security Group and were used
for COMSAT interception. Large-scale expansion of the ILC satellite interception
system took place between 1985 and 1995, in conjunction with the enlargement
of the ECHELON processing system (section 3). New stations were constructed
in the United States (Sabana Seca, Puerto Rico), Canada (Leitrim, Ontario),
Australia (Kojarena, Western Australia) and New Zealand (Waihopai, South
Island). Capacity at Yakima, Morwenstow and Sugar Grove was expanded, and
continues to expand. ...
67. It now appears that the system identified as ECHELON has been in existence
for more than 20 years. The need for such a system was foreseen in the late
1960s, when NSA and GCHQ planned ILC satellite interception stations at Mowenstow
and Yakima. It was expected that the quantity of messages intercepted from
the new satellites would be too great for individual examination. According
to former NSA staff, the first ECHELON computers automated Comint processing
at these sites. |
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