Glossary of Terms
Glossary of Terms
ACLU—American Civil Liberties Union
CIA—Central Intelligence Agency
Comsat— Communications Satellite Act
DOD—Department of Defense
Echelon— spy satellite
EPIC— Electronic Privacy Information Center
FBI— Federal Bureau of Investigation
FISA—Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
NASA— National Aeronautic Space Agency
NIPC—National Infrastructure Protection Center
NRO—National Reconnaissance Office
NSA—National Security Agency
OCR—Optical Character Recognition
SIGINT— signals intelligence system
STOA—Scientific and Technological Option Assessment Unit
UKUSA— 1948 agreement signed by 5 countries, United States, England, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. This agreement “ giving themselves carte blanche to, “geographically divvy up signals intelligence gathering responsibilities with the U.S. as director and main underwriter”(Dwan). “In addition to these countries Norway, Denmark, Germany and Turkey have also signed on as 3rd party participants.”
