Lifting the Lid on Menwith Hill

Event published by Dominic Linley

Event date: March 01, 2012 19:30

Tagged as: anti-militarism civil_liberties drones surveillance

Quaker Meeting House
12a Queen Parade
Harrogate
HG1 5PP

Places: harrogate yorkshire

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Lifting the Lid on Menwith Hill: The US Spy Base in Yorkshire

Yorkshire CND are launching a new report that exposes the role of US spy base Menwith Hill in global conflict and the illegal monitoring and analysis of communications carried out there. It sheds light on the work of the US base run by the National Security Agency (NSA) under an informal and secretive lease agreement with the UK Government.

This is the first report of its kind that investigates the role of Menwith Hill since the European Parliament resolved that the electronic surveillance breached the European Convention of Human Rights in 2001.

The report covers:

Menwith Hill's strategic role as a regional intelligence base illegally collecting and analysing information from satellites, phone tapping and the interception of internet traffic
The role that Menwith Hill plays in information-led warfare for US military actions such as drone attacks
A critical examination of claims made by the US authorities, and repeated in Parliament, of the economic benefit of the base to the local community
The hidden economic costs of the base and the degree to which these are subsidised by the UK taxpayer

The launch event will include a presentation from the report author Dr Steve Schofield followed by a discussion on the impact of the base.

More information on Menwith Hill can be found online at www.yorkshirecnd.org.uk.

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