Britain operating ‘electronic spy posts’ in Germany
GCHQ is ‘carrying out spying with the United States and other partners’
Documents leaked by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden show that Britain’s surveillance agency is operating a network of “electronic spy posts” from within a stone’s throw of the Bundestag and German chancellor’s office, reported.
NSA documents, in conjunction with aerial photographs and information about past spying activities in Germany, suggest that Britain is operating its own covert listening station close to the German parliament, and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s offices in the Chancellery, using hi-tech equipment housed on the embassy roof, the British newspaper reported.
Spy agencies across Western Europe are working together on mass surveillance of internet and phone traffic comparable to programmes run by their US counterpart and denounced by European governments, Britain’s newspaper reported on Saturday.
There has been particular anger in Germany, a close ally of the United States, over allegations that the NSA monitored Merkel’s mobile phone.
GCHQ could not be immediately reached.
