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              SIGNALS AT BURMA EMBASSY

Burma is operating a major signals intelligence station at its embassy in
Bangkok and has similar capabilities in 
Bangladesh and at least one other overseas diplomatic mission,Jane's
defence Weekly reported yesterday.

 The station's main targets include international telephone conversations,
facsimile traffic, satellite- 
telephone transmissions, E-mail messages on the Internet and radio
broadcasts, Ap quoted the respected military magazine as saying in a report
from London.

 The Bangkok station, controlled by the Directorate of 
Defence Services Intelligence,is located in a compound housing the office
of Burma's military, naval and air attaches in the diplomatic
district,Jane's said.

 There are at least nine antennas on the roof of a five storey
apartment-style building  in the compound, most of them probably ordinary
TV antennas, a high frequency system and two satellite communications
dishes, the magazine said. It published photographs of two satellite dishes
and an aerial which it said appears to be a high frequency mast.
      Bangkok Post, (July,30,1998).