"There is also a specialist signals unit, Unit 8200 as previously mentioned. There are listening posts, some in the Israeli occupied, and much contested, Golan Heights. There is also a satellite intercept facility there which compliments the other commercial satellite earth stations. Whilst the intelligence product from Israel’s Unit 8200 is not officially integrated into the Echelon Network many Israeli personnel work on secondment at the NSA and other Pentagon Departments. It is no surprise that US intelligence personnel also work alongside Unit 8200 personnel in Israel; some of the equipment undoubtedly of American origin. A joint Washington based Joint Counter Terrorism Office, with a secure and direct communications link between Israeli intelligence and the emergent US Office of Homeland Security has been suggested [and may now exist]. Are the SIGINT stations the reason for America’s willingness to turn its eyes away from the oft debateable behaviour of Israel when the rest of the world protests its Human Rights record?"