![]() Organization Map of the UKUSA Agreement countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States By the end of the 20th century, it had greatly expanded. Ĭreated in the late 1960s to monitor the military and diplomatic communications of the Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies during the Cold War, the ECHELON project became formally established in 1971. It was structural failure of the Tupolev aircraft, in a steep dive, that led to catastrophe at an international air show.Signals intelligence collection and analysis network Part of a series onĪ radome at RAF Menwith Hill, a site with satellite uplink capabilities believed to be used by ECHELON RAF Menwith Hill, North Yorkshire, England Misawa Air Base Security Operations Center (MSOC), Aomori Prefecture, JapanĮCHELON, originally a secret government code name, is a surveillance program ( signals intelligence/SIGINT collection and analysis network) operated by the five signatory states to the UKUSA Security Agreement: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, also known as the Five Eyes. The engines were not flight tested before the Tu-144 had first flown. There were no overseas demonstration sales flights, which Concorde had attempted. The Tu-144 did not have vortices over its wing to provide extra lift at low speed. The Tu-144 and Concorde were structurally different aircraft designs.ĭifferences between the two supersonic aircraft Czech Jean Sarrady was arrested by the Direction de la surveillance du territoire (DST) in January 1966, when disguised as a Catholic priest, and received four years in prison Įffect on the design of the Tu-144.He was deported from France in 1965, travelling back to Moscow to become the deputy minister for civil aviation Pavlov was arrested as he attempted to leave the restaurant, with the blueprints of Concorde's landing gear and anti-lock brakes being found with his belongings. ![]() On 1 February 1965 Pavlov was due to meet a contact at La Flambée restaurant, and inadvertently sat opposite a DST agent and the agent's stooge female companion for two hours. MI6 and the CIA informed the DST that Sergei Pavlov needed to be watched closely.On 1 February 1978 he was sentenced to twenty years in prison Sergei Fabiev (Serge Fabiew) had worked in conjunction with the GRU since 1962, and was arrested on 15 March 1977 when about to board a plane at Orly Airport, after decoded messages from Moscow had congratulated him on obtaining the complete plans of Concorde.The Soviets had taken inspiration from the design of British airliners on earlier occasions. On Thursday 22 August 1996, Channel 4 broadcast an hour-long documentary Konkordski about the Soviet espionage of Concorde. On 5 June 1969, the Tu-144 broke the sound barrier, with Concorde doing the same on 1 October 1969. According to Dr Calder Walton, assistant director of the Belfer Centre’s intelligence project at Harvard, British European Airways engineer Ivor James Gregory stole and passed 90,000 pages of classified records to Soviet intelligence. Vasili Mitrokhin, a Russian agent who defected, had documents showing that information on Concorde had been obtained. Its development was incomplete, and it had limited passenger service for a few months in early 1978. These constraints of time on the Tu-144 development would lead to a disaster. But, due to harsh self-imposed constraints of time, there were attempts by Soviet insiders to gain access to technological secrets of the development of Concorde. Not all allegations have been verified, but documents from Sud Aviation and BAC development did reach Soviet hands.Īlthough the Tu-144 does show great similarities with Concorde, and was designed and developed concurrently, it was not a direct copy, as has often been alleged. Soviet industrial espionage of the Concorde programme is alleged to have been carried out from 1959 to 1976. Please introduce links to this page from related articles try the Find link tool for suggestions. ![]() This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. ![]()
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