Chapter 45. BREAKBULK pages 200 - 203
"'‘Where do you think the truck's headed?' Hollis asked, poolside, from her cozy depression in the edge of the giant Stark futon."
Chapter 45. BREAKBULK
After discussing with Hollis the likely next location of the mysterious shipping container and the whereabouts of Bobby Chombo, Bigend likens "traditional human intelligence [someone knowing something]" to "breakbulk, noncontainerized freight [old-fashioned shipping]." Bigend prefers the breakbulk intelligence to that gained through data-mining, but not enough to ignore his interest in Onyx, a Swiss-based version of Echelon for searching data harvested by spy satellites around the world. Bigend then tells Hollis to continue working with Philip and Odile re: the locative art installations and suggests, "It’s no accident that Bobby Chombo overlaps two such apparently different spheres." [692 characters]
How does Bigend get access to a Swiss military electronic communications interception system ?
UPDATE:
via Blue Ant's Swiss bankers, apparently