From: Dale Thorn <dthorn@gte.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 16:24:04 +0800
To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Subject: Re: NSA/GCSB spying shown on NZ television
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pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz wrote:
> 20/20 today had a segment on the operation of the GCSB (Government
> Communications Security Bureau), the trading name of the NSA in New
> Zealand. This was motivated by the recent publication of Nicky Hagers
> book "Secret Power" which goes into great detail about the operation
> of the GCSB (it has floor plans of the monitoring stations, details of
> operations, staff, names and contact numbers, etc etc - it's a very
> well researched book covering the day-to-day running of an
> intelligence agency).

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> AFAIK there's never been any direct, documented proof of what these
> bases are intercepting - the dishes are pointed in the right direction
> for intercepting Intelsat transmissions, but the various agencies have
> been able to deny the nature of the interception.  The footage of
> operations manuals on a desk would seem to prove beyond a doubt that
> the agencies are engaged in large-scale interception and monitoring of
> civilian communications.

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A good primer for U.S. citizens on that area of the world can be found 
in a document called "The Opal File - the Round Table financial takeover 
of Australia and New Zealand".  Time period covered is May 1967 to Feb. 
1987.  Names mentioned include:

Hunt, Nelson B.
Muldoon, ? (N.Z. finance minister)
Onassis, Aristotle
Colby, William
Parsky, Gerald
Hand, Michael
Maheu, Robert
Rockefeller, David
Sindona, Michele
Wriston, Walter
McCloy, John J.
Brierly, Ron
Seldon, Bob
Nugan, Frank
Jones, Bob
Fletcher, J.C.

There are many other names, it's a great document, and the size is 
relatively small, about 59 kb.