The U.S. Government wants to know every banking transaction in the world
in real-time.

What does it look like to you?

*   "Project L.U.C.I.D.", by Texe Marrs, 1996, ISBN 1-884302-02-5
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*   [The joint Australian/NSA building contains:]
*   A small, but highly significant, part of the building is, in fact,
*   occupied by Telecom. This is the part that contains the networking
*   junctions for the optical-fiber lines leased by the banks for their
*   "Electronic Funds Transfer System" (EFTS). ALL financial transactions
*   for the banks pass through there via subsidiary company, "Funds
*   Transfers Services Pty Ltd." (FTS)
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*   All Australian EFT transactions are on record at Fort Meade.

*   "The End of Ordinary Money, Part I", by J. Orlin Grabbe
*   http://www.***.com/
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*   The most important communications network for international financial
*   market transactions is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial
*   Telecommunication (SWIFT), a not-for-profit cooperative.
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*   This system for transferring foreign exchange deposits and loans began
*   actual operation in May 1977 and by 1990 had 1,812 members, and connected
*   3,049 banks and securities industry participants in eight-four countries.
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*   In 1993 SWIFT began asking users of its messaging system to include a
*   purpose of payment in all messages, as well as payers, payees, and
*   intermediaries. This type of arrangement would allow NSA computers
*   to use keyword monitoring to scan for any names in which they were
*   interested.

!   FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, Senate Judiciary Committee, June 4, 1997
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!   NOT THAT LONG AGO, NO ONE PERCEIVED THAT TELEPHONE SYSTEMS COULD BECOME
!