FINAL WARNING: The Curtain Falls
anything about this book, nor can I connect this author with this type
of research. You can see why the association was made when you look
at some of the occupants of this building: Commission of European
Communities (the European Union’s executive arm), European Bank of
Investments, European Court of Justice, and the Secretariat of the
European Parliament (who also work out of Strasbourg and
Luxembourg).Well, enough with the fiction. The fact is, there is a worldwide
communications network already in place. Established in 1973, with
only 239 banks from 15 countries, SWIFT (Society for Worldwide
Interbank Financial Telecommunication, headquartered at Avenue
Adèle 1, La Hulpe, Belgium– a southern suberb of Brussels) now has
7,500 members in 200 countries. This system links member banks
across the globe in a manner designed to accommodate any type of
computer system. The Burroughs Corporation (who acquired Sperry
Corp. in 1986 and is now known as Unisys Corp.) developed the data
processing and communications system equipment that is used as a
private communications system for the transmission of payment and
other international banking transactions. Tata Consultancy Services,
Asia’s largest global software and services company provided the on-
site support. It is made up of switching centers in Brussels (Belgium)
and Amsterdam (Netherlands), which have been linked to Burroughs
data concentrators in Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt,
Helsinki, London, Milan, Lux, Montreal, New York, Oslo, Paris,
Stockholm, Vienna, and Zurich. These data concentrators are linked to
terminals in all the member banks of those countries.According to the book SWIFT: Banking and Business, Dr. T. Hugh
Moreton said: “In early 1982 we are ready to believe every country in
the world will be connected in one way or another to SWIFT.” The
United States SWIFT Bank, built at a cost of $15 million, is located near
the Federal Reserve Office in Culpepper, Virginia.The biggest concentration of super computers in the world can be
found at Fort Meade, Maryland, between Washington and Baltimore, at
the headquarters of the National Security Agency, which is the most
secret intelligence agency in our government. Occupying an area of a
thousand acres, the NSA contains a $47,000,000 subterranean
computer facility that stretches for blocks and has ten acres of Cray