[IP] more on More on planespotters
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From: Paul Saffo <psaffo@xxxxxxxx>
Date: December 10, 2005 12:29:48 PM EST
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: More on planespotters
D-
As background to the CIA/plane-spotting story, here are some
additional sites for the curious:
- http://www.planespotting.com/ good overview of the hobby
-While the US has restricted plane-spotters, the UK government
reversed its policy two years ago and actually enlisted plane-
spotters in the cause of watching for would-be terrorists. For more
see: http://www.laasdata.com/taess.html and http://www.csoonline.com/
read/080104/briefing_terror.html
And the UK is a hotbed of plane spotting, in part because the UK is
where train-spotting began and remains a huge hobby there. Also, the
Brits had a govt-formed civilian spotter corps (the Royal Observer
Corps) there for most of the last century.
- www.laasdata.com Laas is one of the largest aviation fan clubs on
the planet. The site has good links.
Soon after 9/11 twelve British plane-spotters were arrested in Greece
for spying, setting off a large diplomatic kerfuffle. See: http://
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1662165.stm And for a Greek
response, see: http://www.helleniccomserve.com/planespotting.html
best
-p
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