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Chicksands to close

01 July 1994

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The US National Security Agency (NSA) base at Chicksands, in Bedfordshire, is to close. It was one of the US sites in Britain established by a secret intelligence agreement between the NSA and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Chicksands concentrated on intercepting Soviet military signals during the cold war and dealt with a large amount of London diplomatic communications. The largest US base in Britain, Menworth Hill in north Yorkshire, is to be expanded; it is has the technology to monitor 250,000 domestic telephone lines.

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