New Snowden Leak: Australia’s Place in US Spying Web!

• New Snowden leak: Australia’s place in US spying web! 
  by http://rt.com/news/ 
  Ex-NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden has disclosed his first set of documents outlining Australia’s role in NSA surveillance programs, picking out four facilities in the country that contribute heavily to US spying.
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  The locations of dozens of the US’s and associated countries  signal collection sites have been revealed by Snowden, who leaked  classified National Security Agency maps to US journalist Glenn  Greenwald, which were then published in the Brazilian newspaper   “O Globo.”
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  The sites all play a role in the collection of data and  interception of internet traffic and telecommunications on a  global level.
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    Australian centers involved in the NSA’s data collection program,  codenamed X-Keyscore, include Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap in  central Australia and three Australian Signals Directorate  facilities: the Shoal Bay Receiving Station in the country’s  north, the Australian Defence Satellite Communications Facility  on the west coast, and the naval communications station HMAS  Harman outside the capital, Canberra.  
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    New Zealand also plays a role, with the Government Security  Communications Bureau facility at Waihopai, on the northern point  of South Island, also contributing to the program.  
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    X-Keyscore is described as a “national Intelligence collection  mission system” by US intelligence expert William Arkin,  according to Australian newspaper The Age. It processes  all signals prior to being delivered to various “production  lines” that deal with more specific issues including the  exploration of different types of data for close scrutiny.  
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    The different subdivisions are entitled Nucleon (voice), Pinwale  (video), Mainway (call records) and Marina (internet  records). 
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