GCHQ listening post at Seeb, Oman

After all, Britain maintains its own listening post on Cyprus at RAF Akrotiri, as well as a “beyond top secret” cable-tapping station at Seeb on the northern coast of Oman. A Russian government press release from state propaganda outlet Sputnik tells us that Yantar was commissioned into Russia's Northern ...

Documents published by news website The Register reveal the existence of a secret British spy base located at Seeb on the northern coast of Oman, a strategic position that allows the GCHQ to tap several undersea cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian/Arabian Gulf. Other document ...

As The Register's Duncan Campbell revealed at the time, access to cables under the programs called “CIRCUIT” (intercepting cables landing at Seeb in Oman), “REMEDY” (access to BT cable facilities) and “GERONTIC” (Vodafone) delivered up a huge amount of communications to GCHQ and NSA ...

While the landings haven't been stipulated, El Reg can't help but notice that Oman is home to the formerly-secret GCHQ tapping base at Seeb. Alcatel-Lucent has begun construction of the western end of the cable, running from Sri Lanka to France. The eastern links are to be built by NEC. Sea-Me-We 5 ...

Under the covernames of WINDSTOP and MUSCULAR, GCHQ data from UK cable taps, including direct intercepts of US email providers and ISPs, is provided wholesale to NSA. NSA has also deployed two overseas Remote Operations centres for malware management at Menwith Hill Station in Yorkshire ...

It is located at Seeb, on the northern coast of Oman, where it taps in to various undersea cables passing through the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian/Arabian Gulf. Seeb is one of a three site GCHQ network in Oman, at locations codenamed “TIMPANI”, “GUITAR” and “CLARINET”. TIMPANI, near the Strait of ...