Salt Creek Station

Salt Creek Earth Station is a satellite ground station located approximately 7 miles (11 km) southwest of Arbuckle, California. It is licensed to Xaba Ranch, LLC, a real estate holding company.^[1]^[2]^[3] The site was formerly licensed to AT&T, for whom it carried much of the United States' telecommunications to Asia and the Pacific Rim.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] AT&T opened the facility in May 1990 with three 60-foot (18 m) wide dishes each aimed at different satellites over the Pacific Ocean.^[8] According to James Bamford, the National Security Agency uses the facility to capture and monitor satellite telecommunications traveling in and out of the United States.^[4]^[9]

References

↑ ComSearch (January 16, 2012). "3650 MHz Feasibility Study Operation within Grandfathered Earth Station Protection Zones". CommScope. p. 2. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
↑ Radio Station Authorization. Federal Communications Commission. November 24, 2010.
↑ "Xaba Ranch, LLC". Wysk. April 15, 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
1 2 Bamford, James (March 15, 2012). "The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)". Wired. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
↑ Kadowaki, Naoto; Youshimura, Naoko; Takahashi, Takashi; Yoshikawa, Makoto; Hsu, Eddie; Bergman, Larry; Bhasin, Kul; Gary, Pat (June 1999). "Trans-Pacific HDR Satellite Communications Experiment Phase-2: Experimental Network and Demonstration Plan" (PDF). Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Satellite Communications in the Global Information Infrastructure.
↑ Wold, Robert (November 10, 2000). "As The World Turned Another Olympian Feat For Satellites". Via Satellite. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
↑ Easterling, Todd (April 17, 2008). The U.S. WiMAX 3.65 GHz Opportunity: The History of the Band and How WISPs Can Register for FCC Approval (PDF). Tessco. p. 12. Retrieved 22 April 2014.
↑ "Carrier Watch". Network World. Vol. 7 no. 20. May 14, 1990. p. 11.
↑ Nelson, Kathy (January 17, 2014). "Kathy Nelson: NSA". Red Bluff Daily News. Retrieved 22 April 2014.

National Security Agency

Locations	Alaskan Mission Operations Center Colorado Cryptologic Center Consolidated Intelligence Center CSSG Dorsey Road European Cryptologic Center European Technical Center Fort Meade Friendship Annex Georgia Cryptologic Center Hawaii Cryptologic Center Interagency Training Center Kent Island Misawa Security Operations Center Multiprogram Research Facility Pine Gap RAF Menwith Hill Roaring Creek Room 641A Salt Creek Sugar Grove Texas Cryptologic Center Utah Data Center

Leaders	Ralph Canine John A. Samford Laurence Hugh Frost Gordon Blake Marshall Carter Noel Gayler Samuel C. Phillips Lew Allen Bobby Ray Inman Lincoln D. Faurer William Eldridge Odom Bill Studeman John Michael McConnell Kenneth Minihan Michael Hayden Keith B. Alexander Michael S. Rogers

Divisions	Central Security Service Information Warfare Support Center Remote Operations Center Special Collection Service Special Source Operations Tailored Access Operations NSA/CSS Threat Operations Center National Security Operations Center

Technology	ANT catalog FROSTBURG HARVEST Secure Terminal Equipment (STE) STU-I STU-II STU-III WARRIOR PRIDE

Controversy	2013 mass surveillance disclosures Church Committee Edward Snowden LOVEINT James Bamford NSA warrantless surveillance controversy Pike Committee Russ Tice Thomas Andrews Drake Thomas Tamm

Programs	Boundless Informant Dropmire ECHELON Fairview Insider Threat Program MUSCULAR MYSTIC PRISM Real Time Regional Gateway Stellar Wind TRAILBLAZER Turbulence Upstream XKeyscore

Databases	DISHFIRE Interquake Main Core MAINWAY MARINA Nymrod PINWALE

Other	Dundee Society Institute for Defense Analyses National Cryptologic Museum National Cryptologic School National Vigilance Park NSA Hall of Honor VENONA Zendian Problem

Coordinates: 38°56′17″N 122°08′56″W / 38.938°N 122.149°W / 38.938; -122.149

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