The history, correct and exaggerated, of the National Security Agency's so-called "ECHELON" system. This is the information that reporters and parliamentary investigators scrambled for in the late 1990s. Most of it was forgotten after the 9/11 attacks.

The history of ECHELON, Second and Third Parties, and global SIGINT sharing. The draft and unredacted EU Report on ECHELON is also included as Part II of this "too hot to handle" report.