RSOC Opposition Movements: From Hardware to Doctrine by Loring Wirbel - includes a report on the European trip made by 8 members of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space in mid-March 1997 and which included a visit to the base.
Space: intelligence technology's embattled frontier by Loring Wirbel - interesting article giving (among other things) information on the Runway - a series of identical radomes running east and west across the south edge of Menwith, believed to be involved in downloading information from the geosynchronous SIGINT satellites known as Vortex or Magnum.
Spies like us - 1997 Daily Telegraph report on Menwith Hill.
Spy Station F83 - Sunday Times 31.5.98 extensive article, following the claim by a German politician that "a shadowy US installation in Britain is spying on Europe's business secrets. Nicholas Rufford investigates a base able to tap into any call, fax or e-mail".
Making history: - the original source for the 1988 first Echelon report. Statement by Duncan Campbell about his original principal source for reporting on the Echelon network.
BBC Despatches Report - Thursday, December 18, 1997, Andrew Wood exposes the gigantic electronic monitoring network.
Somebody's listening by Duncan Campbell - 12/8/88 New Statesman article - lots of references and links.
Exposing the Global Surveillance System by Nicky Hager in CovertAction Quarterly - the discovery of the ECHELON DICTIONARY, used at Menwith, which has revealed one of the world's biggest, most closely held intelligence projects.
Loud and Clear - The most secret of secret agencies operates under outdated laws - James Bamford suggests that the rapid development of technology has meant that new laws may be required to ensure proper control over Menwith's activities - 14/11/99.
ECHELON, NSA spooks face Congress scrutiny by Thomas C Greene, The Register - recent US report recently called for an "undisclosed amount" for upgrades to Menwith Hill but at the same time insisted that the NSA be made to account for its methods of intercepting electronic communications - 27/11/99.
London Helps Washington Spy on Europe - The report of an expert elected by the European Parliament confirms it: the communications of European companies are intercepted - 27/1/00.
60 Minutes - Margaret Newsham Returns to NSA's Menwith Hill - 11/2/00.
Speech by Ann Cryer on 18th January 2000 highlighting the US Space Command's vision to be "Masters of Space".
Report for European Parliament
An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control - Consultation version of working document prepared for European Parliament by its Directorate General for Research Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA).
STOA Report Part 4 - The state of the art in Communications Intelligence (COMINT) of automated processing for intelligence purposes of intercepted broadband multi-language leased or common carrier systems, and its applicability to COMINT targeting and selection, including speech recognition by Duncan Campbell.
Global Internet Liberty Campaign Member Statement on "Human Rights and the Internet" - Prepared for a one day briefing session for Members of the European Parliament, 27th January 1998, in Brussels.
By-Laws Judgments
Woolf-Pill Judgment '92 - Greaves & Bugg and Percy & Bugg successfully challenge byelaws at Alconbury, Forest Moor and Menwith Hill, 1992.
Star Wars Strikes Back by Duncan Campbell, Dec 2 1998 article appeared in "The Guardian" describing the connection between Menwith Hill and "Star Wars".
The Cassini NoFlyby web site - on August 18, 1999 the Cassini space probe executed a flyby manoeuvre around the Earth.
It carried a record 72.3 pounds of plutonium dioxide on board and will came hurtling towards Earth at speeds in excess of 42,000mph.
If it had been a fraction off-course it could have ploughed into the atmosphere and burned up, spreading plutonium across the globe and endangering the lives of millions.
Luckily it didn't. But more plutonium missions are planned.
