Waihopai
Sir,—Little media attention has been given recently to the Waihopai spy base which is due to commence operations shortly. At the moment American technicians are installing the giant dish which will listen in on international telephone and fax messages. American computers will soon arrive for installation, The New Zealand public has been given no idea of the cost of this massive facility, no indication of the end use of its spying, and the two relevant Parliamentary Select Committees, Defence and Finance, were refused any information when they requested it. The current Government’s secretive planning and policy implementation may well backfire. It would be a rich but sad irony if Australian and American Governments were to outmanoeuvre the Lange Government through use of intelligence sucked up by the Waihopai spy base. — Yours, etc., W. H. THOMSON. June 14, 1989.
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Press, 26 June 1989, Page 20
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