Our government spied on the Soviet Union for decades, but
now that the cold war is over, they?re aiming their sights on
us.
The April 2001 issue of Popular Mechanics reveals that two
powerful intelligence gathering tools the U.S. created to
eavesdrop on the Soviets are now being used to monitor
Americans. One system, known as Echelon, intercepts and
analyzes our phone calls, faxes and e-mail, looking for ?key?
words.
The other system, Tempest, can secretly read the displays
on personal computers, cash registers and automatic teller
machines. Whitley Strieber was personally warned by a
government agent 15 years ago that the data on his
computer was being read in this way.
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