NSA-Überwachung: Merkel steht seit 2002 auf US-Abhörliste - SPIEGEL ONLINE
NSA-Überwachung: Merkel steht seit 2002 auf US-Abhörliste - SPIEGEL ONLINE
The NSA spied the phone by Angela Merkel apparently made for more than ten years. This emerges from a secret file of U.S. intelligence that which SPIEGEL. Of its Berlin embassy, the U.S. government spying apparently from the entire district.
Berlin - The mobile phone of Angela Merkel has apparently since 2002 on a list of education goals of the American secret NSA . The results from an excerpt that apparently comes from a secret NSA file. From the file extension is also clear that this Ausspähauftrag also apparently a few weeks before President Obama's visit to Berlin was in effect in June 2013. In the excerpt that which SPIEGEL, the number is listed under "GE Chancellor Merkel".
Therefore has for the Europe Unit S2C32 "European States Branch" Merkel competent named as a target. For the implementation of a unit is registered with the name Special Collection Service (SCS) in the file. From the record does not indicate what kind of data were monitored whether some or all calls recorded only connection data were evaluated.
The Special Collection Service maintains the Berlin U.S. Embassy on Pariser Platz, a non-legally registered Spionagedependance. There supervise employees of the NSA and the CIA with modern high performance antennas communication in the government district.
If messages would be recognized as a listening post for such technical bodies, it is said in a "top secret" classified internal SCS guide, this could mean "serious harm to U.S. relations with a foreign government."
Another spy center in Frankfurt
Similar institutions of the common unit of the CIA and NSA, founded in the late seventies, there were, according to a secret Overview from 2010 to around 80 locations worldwide. 19 of them were alone in European cities such as Paris, Madrid, Rome, Prague and Geneva. In addition to Berlin, the U.S. government has, according to internal documents NSA spying on German soil, a second branch in Frankfurt am Main.
In internal discussions with the federal government, the U.S. government has not denied the capture of Merkel as education destination. Obama's national security adviser Susan Rice admitted in a conversation with Merkel's foreign policy adviser Christoph Heusgen she could a monitoring rule for the present and the future, not the past. U.S. President Barack Obama assured Merkel on the phone that he was not aware of a possible bugging , otherwise he would have stopped it immediately.
As a consequence of the affair that wants Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution (BFV) Remove the counterintelligence. "We're talking about a fundamental realignment," said a senior security official to SPIEGEL. The staff of the BFV-Division 4, in which are currently more than 100 employees worked, could be doubled by the ideas of the trunk. One focus of the realignment will be monitoring the embassy building in Berlin's government district.
