Wikileaks: UK Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources
Wikileaks | 27.01.2011 10:39 | Sheffield | World
One of the latest cables to be released, 09STATE15113, contains, "a comprehensive inventory of CI/KR (critical infrastructure and key resources) that are located outside U.S. borders and whose loss could critically impact the public health, economic security, and/or national and homeland security of the United States". The UK list CI/KR follows, these places would appear to be good targets for protests!
United Kingdom: Goonhilly Teleport, Goonhilly Downs, United Kingdom
Madley Teleport, Stone Street, Madley, United Kingdom Martelsham
Teleport, Ipswich, United Kingdom APOLLO undersea cable landing
Bude, Cornwall Station, United Kingdom Atlantic Crossing-1 (AC-1)
undersea cable landing Whitesands Bay FA-1 undersea cable landing
Skewjack, Cornwall Station Hibernia Atlantic undersea cable
landing, Southport, United Kingdom TAT-14 undersea cable landing
Bude, Cornwall Station, United Kingdom Tyco Transatlantic undersea
cable landing, Highbridge, United Kingdom Tyco Transatlantic
undersea cable landing, Pottington, United Kingdom. Yellow/Atlantic
Crossing-2 (AC-2) undersea cable landing
Bude, United Kingdom Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccine finishing BAE
Systems (Operations) Ltd., Presont, Lancashire, United Kingdom:
Critical to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter BAE Systems Operations
Ltd., Southway, Plymouth Devon, United Kingdom: Critical to
extended range guided munitions BAE Systems RO
Defense, Chorley, United Kingdom: Critical to the Joint Standoff
Weapon (JSOW) AGM-154C (Unitary Variant) MacTaggart Scott,
Loanhead, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom: Critical to
the Ship Submersible Nuclear (SSN)
Madley Teleport, Stone Street, Madley, United Kingdom Martelsham
Teleport, Ipswich, United Kingdom APOLLO undersea cable landing
Bude, Cornwall Station, United Kingdom Atlantic Crossing-1 (AC-1)
undersea cable landing Whitesands Bay FA-1 undersea cable landing
Skewjack, Cornwall Station Hibernia Atlantic undersea cable
landing, Southport, United Kingdom TAT-14 undersea cable landing
Bude, Cornwall Station, United Kingdom Tyco Transatlantic undersea
cable landing, Highbridge, United Kingdom Tyco Transatlantic
undersea cable landing, Pottington, United Kingdom. Yellow/Atlantic
Crossing-2 (AC-2) undersea cable landing
Bude, United Kingdom Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccine finishing BAE
Systems (Operations) Ltd., Presont, Lancashire, United Kingdom:
Critical to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter BAE Systems Operations
Ltd., Southway, Plymouth Devon, United Kingdom: Critical to
extended range guided munitions BAE Systems RO
Defense, Chorley, United Kingdom: Critical to the Joint Standoff
Weapon (JSOW) AGM-154C (Unitary Variant) MacTaggart Scott,
Loanhead, Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom: Critical to
the Ship Submersible Nuclear (SSN)
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It's got lots missing...
27.01.2011 10:50
The Menwith Hill spy base near Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England, is the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. Run by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States, it is one of a global network of Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) bases, which monitors the world's communications and relays information to NSA HQ at Fort Meade in Maryland, USA.
Spooks
Better background
27.01.2011 20:34
One of the places listed was hit since then, but since it hasn't been publicised as a crime and none of my concerns about Indymedia security are being answered, then you'll have to guess.
Menwith Hill isn't on the list because the US don't consider it a Critical Foreign Dependency. It's US territory flying the Stars and Stripes. Spooks is correct though that CFD's will have been redacted, and there is an interesting NYT article by Bill Keller just now detailing how that process worked, although they've stuck it up behind a registration page today. Basically, the NYT team went to the US authorities and took advice on what they should publish since they have a poor opinion of Assange. Apart from that rather shameless article, they also put up a rather derigatory video which glosses over their complicity.
Danny