Chapter 380: Echelon

After Yang Xing and his friends arrived in Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel, despite being heavily guarded everywhere, customs officials friendly welcomed Yang Xing's East Asian face and his Chinese identity. During World War II, Shanghai, China was the only Far East city that allowed Jews to take refuge. Many Jews were very grateful for the helping hand that the Chinese extended at that time. Israel has maintained friendly relations with China after its founding. After the reform, many Chinese people came to Israel to participate in labor exports, and the silent and hardworking Chinese people were very popular with the locals. Now many Chinese businessmen will also come to Israel to conduct investment activities. Israeli officials are accustomed to it and did not pay much attention to them. Yang Xing and others also sneaked all the way and finally arrived at the command center hidden in a small town on the edge of the Negev Desert in Israel.

The residents of this small town are basically workers from nearby farms. They did not pay much attention to the three-story building in the small town with the logo of the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture institution for researching drip irrigation technology. They also believed in their hearts that since it was a research institution, it was common for foreigners to appear in it. Yang Xing and others disguised themselves as foreign researchers and entered the building without any obstacles, which did not arouse the vigilance of local intelligence agencies and police. Although the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad is famous, most of them are targeted at Arabs and are not very concerned about foreigners in other places.

When Yang Xing and the others entered the basement under the cover of the small building, they found that there was a different world. Under the cover of a large number of agricultural research equipment on the building, this place was converted into a spider network that summarized information, and countless pipelines extended from here to all directions. Some were secretly connected to the internal military network of the Israel Defense Force, some were connected to the network of an unrecognized nuclear research institution in the desert, and some were even built on the nearby Israeli intelligence network. Any Israeli movements can be discovered immediately.

This is the command center of the entire "Shaw Hunting" operation. The codes of a large number of viruses, backdoors, logic bombs and other software written by hackers from all over the world summoned by the "Gate of the Abyss" are gathered here to form virtual cyber attack weapons. Just by waiting for Yang Xing to give him the order, he will launch countless offensives in the Internet world and cause chaos in the world.

Yang Xing visited the entire place under the guidance of Lin Jiana, who had been waiting for him for a long time. Even though she knew her abilities, she was still deeply attracted when she saw the massive data constantly refreshing on dozens of large computer screens. Lin Jiana explained the confidential information from all over the world on the screen, and couldn't help but boast: "Although the data here is not as good as the "echelon" eavesdropping system of the US National Security Agency, the various confidential information collected these days is enough to overthrow many small countries. When this operation is over, you must build an information master control center that is more complete than this temporary base. In the information age, intelligence is money. Now we are waiting for the right time to have a global hacker carnival."

Yang Xing nodded and said, "It seems that you chose this place as a good move. Now I understand that the Americans are guarding against all countries, but they always open the Internet to Israel. Using the Israeli network to access the confidential US network, the story of the incident made the Americans think that the Israelis are developing cyber weapons in addition to developing atomic bombs in the desert, so the Americans can only investigate. In addition, the US satellite global surveillance is probably the most surveillance of Israel.

Younger, hiding here will leave the least clues for them to track down afterwards. In the future, we will push all the evidence of guilt to Israel. The Israelis used on the Internet and the power and logistics support facilities are also from the Israelis. Clean up the place and retreat to the desert, so that nature can cover up all clues. As expected, it is indeed a master trained by the KGB and a clever slander! The 'echelon' system you just mentioned has been uploading the Internet recently. Is it very powerful?"

Lin Jiana knew that although the boss was not from an agent, his ideas in his mind were even disadvantaged. Ukraine's plan to steal back from the Soviet Union was almost arranged by him. He suddenly talked about the "echelon" system, and it was obvious that he had a new idea in his mind. So while introducing him to the preparations for the operation and the purpose of the equipment in the command center, he explained to him in detail what the "echelon" system was based on the information she had at hand.

The "echelon" system is probably the most secretive large-scale eavesdropping system protected in the Cold War. At that time, Soviet intelligence agencies installed many spies in the West and had the upper hand in spy wars. However, due to different systems, Western intelligence agencies led by the CIA were unable to install a large number of human spies in the Soviet Union and other countries, so they used their technological advantages to develop eavesdropping equipment to steal intelligence from the Soviet Union and other countries. The biggest and most successful one was the "echelon system".

In August 1988, the "Echelon" electronic espionage system was first exposed by a British journalist named Durken Campbell. At that time, he first fully disclosed a huge electronic espionage network established by multiple countries in the British magazine "The Master of the New Country". However, Campbell only analyzed the conclusions himself through some rumor, and there was no specific evidence of the existence of this espionage system. Even the description of the name of this electronic espionage network was wrong. Therefore, it did not attract special attention at that time, and only thought it was a conspiracy theorist's strange theory behind his head."

In 1996, New Zealand peace activist Nikolki Hagel described for the first time in his book "Secret Power: New Zealand's Role in International Spy Networks" in his book "Secret Power: New Zealand's Role in International Spy Networks" in detail the working principle and the official name of the "echelon" system jointly developed by the New Zealand, Australian government and the United States. It tells the story of the "echelon" system before the "echelon" system appeared in the 1970s. Before the "echelon" system appeared, Western allies such as the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia had been suffering from the poor channels of intelligence exchange between each other for a long time. When some emergency intelligence was processed and analyzed by various intelligence agencies layer by layer, the time lag was too heavy, and it often fell behind the actual situation. In this case, these countries privately agreed to build an "echelon" of electronic surveillance network covering the world's information exchange at any time.

With the emergence of the "echelon" system, these countries can share first-hand information intercepted in real time. The Americans are the ones responsible for implementing the plan are the CIA and the National Security Bureau, the old boss of Horn under Lin Jiana. Lin Jiana is worthy of being an elite who has been engaged in intelligence work for a long time. At this time, the "echelon" has just been known to people, but with her many years of intelligence experience, she has introduced the origin and organizational structure of the "echelon" system as clearly as possible.

The "Echelon" is a network of electronic monitoring stations all over the world established by the five countries of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It was originally used to intercept telephone and telegraph information from socialist countries such as the Soviet Union and China. However, after the end of the Cold War, the functions of the "Echelon" system have been greatly expanded, and it has developed to monitor 3 million telephone and telegraphs, emails, and satellite communications every day, and the monitoring of emerging Internet communications has also continued to increase.

Its main operation method is that the satellite signal interception devices of the five countries are connected together through the computer systems of the ground stations located in various countries. The intelligence departments of various countries enter the keywords of the intelligence they want to collect in these computers. Then the computer will automatically screen out the relevant information from the intercepted thousands of satellite signal intelligence, and then provide it to professional intelligence personnel for identification and sorting, and rating and reporting.

Simply put, as long as some key index words appear in the international phone, telegram or email you use, such as "fighter" and "terrorist", the system will immediately and automatically record your entire communication record for analysis. This system is highly automated, and the communication records of anyone around the world may be monitored at every moment. It is really chilling to think about it. Because of the importance of this system, it has always been strictly blocked as the highest military secret in the West.

However, after the Cold War, Americans were unwilling to give up this valuable system and expand their surveillance objects from former Soviet Union and other countries to their former allies and domestic compatriots. This action that completely violated Western values ​​to protect individuals also led to dissatisfaction among many Western journalists and people who value personal freedom and priority. With their unremitting efforts, this hidden listening network gradually surfaced and exposed to the public in the world.

"I heard that after the end of the Cold War, this 'echelon' was very dishonest. In order to collect information from commercial opponents, citizens and companies from European countries in the same camp became their targets of eavesdropping, which caused Europeans to be furious and wanted to open a hearing to expose this 'echelon'?" Yang Xing thought of the "echelon" information he had heard in his previous life, and couldn't help but ask Lin Jiana to verify it.

Lin Jiana nodded and replied: "In January last year, a report mainly taken from the works of two authors, Durken Campbell and Nikolki Hagel, was submitted to the European Parliament, and then the media exposed it caused an uproar. In this secret report called "Political Control of Spy Technology", accused the US National Security Agency of manipulating the "echelon" system, organizing and purposefully intercepting email, telephone and fax communication signals throughout Europe, and then sending them back to the headquarters of Mildford, Maryland, for analysis and deciphering. And without hiding the closest European allies, they frantically collected top-secret business intelligence from allies, helping American companies compete with European companies, directly undermining the security of commercial trade and political interests of European countries."
Chapter completed!