GCHQ Bude

GCHQ Bude is a British military base north of Bude and south of Morwenstow in Cornwall. He reports to the Government Communications Headquarters. The investments are part of the ECHELON program.

Through documentation of the former NSA employee Edward Snowden was announced that data was probably intercepted from TAT -14 in the British seaside town of Bude ( search the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the NDR ). The cable is one of more than 200 fiber-optic cables that anzapfe British intelligence agency GCHQ under the secret program tenses and audition. Here, the service obviously directly at nodes of the cable ( splicing ) has been using to communications companies and thus did not have to move from the outside to the cable. When spying on the British monitoring service, two telephone companies have been helpful, Vodafone and British Telecommunications (BT).

In 2010, the National Security Agency to GCHQ for new developments in this complex paid 15.5 million pounds.