Echelon and U.S. "Dirty Tricks"

The Observer: The spies and the spinner

The background on the secret memo on US dirty tricks to influence the Security Council vote and the new spy hunt.

They find the leaker and arrest her - of course, this means that the Washington Times and Drudge can't claim it was a fake memo anymore.

This was a product of Echelon, the international coalition of spy agencies that tap nearly all international and some internal communications and runs it all through computers and analysts for "key word" intercepts. A good interview giving details and international reaction is on Australian ABC.