Chicksands to close (1)
01 January 1991
Chicksands to close
artdoc August=1994
The US National Security Agency (NSA) base at Chicksands, in
Bedfordshire, is to close. It was one of the US sites in Britain
established by a secret intelligence agreement between the NSA
and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Chicksands
concentrated on intercepting Soviet military signals during the
cold war and dealt with a large amount of London diplomatic
communications. The largest US base in Britain, Menworth Hill in
north Yorkshire, is to be expanded; it is has the technology to
monitor 250,000 domestic telephone lines. Guardian 16.7.94.
Statewatch, Vol 4 no 4, July-August 1994