 Other countries may be cooperating with the UKUSA countries, including Ireland and Switzerland.There are also conflicting reports about France cooperating with ECHELON, but also operating an independent capability.Two internal NSA newsletters from January 2011 and July 2012, published as part of the Snowden-revelations by the website "The Intercept" on August 3, 2015, for the first time confirmed that NSA used the codeword ECHELON and provided some details about the scope of the program