Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center

21.475830555556 - 158.05115555556Koordinaten: 21 ° 28 ' 33 "N, 158 ° 3' 4 " W

The Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center ( KRSOC, pronounced " KR -Sock " ), also known as the Kunia Tunnel or the Regional Signals Intelligence Operations Center Kunia, is a facility of the National Security Agency. It is a secure facility, at the Kunia Road between Kunia Camp and Wheeler Army Airfield, southwest of Wahiawā in Honolulu County in the middle of the island of Oahu, Hawaii.

According to a report of the European Parliament is here to an Echelon station.

Other Regional SIGINT Operations Center NSA example, there is at Lackland Air Force Base in Medina, Texas and Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia. In Fort Gordon, it should be an Echelon system.

In nine kilometers north-east there used to be a Wullenwever antenna.

KRSOC provides data in the Utah Data Center.

History

Because of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the facility was built as a bomb-proof bunker with a 23,000 m2 area for aircraft repair near to Wheeler Army Airfield. During the further course of the Second World War and in the following decades, the facility was used primarily for cryptographic and communications engineering activities.

In May 2013 According Edward Snowden, copied, an employee of this institution, secret documents on a memory stick and forwarded the documents to the press. He has shown the existence of comprehensive NSA surveillance measures, including the PRISM monitoring program. This resulted in the surveillance and spying affair of 2013.