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Menwith Hill: spying and killing for the US?
A chilling new report documents how a vast state surveillance and assassination programme is secretly run from a US military base in Yorkshire, writes PETER LAZENBY
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MENWITH HILL is ostensibly an RAF base. Its huge and heavily protected acreage sits on rolling moorland in rural North Yorkshire outside the town of Harrogate. There are only 10 RAF personnel at Menwith Hill — but there are around 1,000 US military and civilian personnel.
They operate what is reportedly the US National Security Agency’s biggest electronic spying and communications base in the world.
The base is easily identifiable from miles away by more than 30 huge, white globes, described as giant golf balls. Inside the globes are antennae linking the base to satellites circling the Earth gathering military, political and economic information which is relayed to the Pentagon, the heart of the US information-gathering beast.
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