Surveillance: DGSE transmitted the data to the American NSA
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A week after the protests of indignation expressed by the French political authorities after World revelations about the extent of electronic interceptions made in France by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), new evidence that this emotion could be , in part, feigned.
Tuesday, October 29, before the Intelligence Committee of the House of Representatives, the head of the NSA, General Keith Alexander, swore that the information of the World as well as those of El Mundo in Spain , and L'Espresso in Italy , the interception of communications of European citizens by the NSA were "completely false." He said that it was "data to the NSA" by those European partners.
A few hours earlier, the U.S. newspaper The Wall Street Journal, based on anonymous sources, said that 70.3 million telephone data collected in France, by the NSA, between 10 December 2012 and 8 January 2013 were provided by the services themselves French. These items were sent, according to the newspaper, pursuant to an agreement of cooperation in intelligence between the United States and France.
COOPERATION AGREEMENT KNOWN AS THE "GLOSS"
This information, which tend to clear customs NSA intrusion, not allow progress in the understanding of the American spy in the world as long as they are put in resonance with the light shed on October 28 by the Süddeutsche Zeitung. The German press has reported, with a note unveiled by ex-NSA consultant Edward Snowden, the existence of a cooperation agreement on monitoring between France and the United States known as the "Silk ".
According to our information, collected from a senior official of the intelligence community in France, the direction of the French foreign service, the DGSE, has, in fact, established in from late 2011 and early 2012, a Memorandum of data exchange with the United States.
France has a strategic position for transportation of electronic data. The submarine cables by which most data from transit Africa and Afghanistan landed at Marseilles and Penmarc in Britain . These strategic areas are within the reach of the French DGSE, which intercepts and stores much of what flows between France and abroad.
"A BARTER BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF NOS AND THAT OF THE DGSE"
"This is a bartering is established between the management of the NSA and the DGSE, said the same source. Entire blocks are given in these areas and they give us in return parts of the world where we are absent, but the negotiation was not done at once, the scope of sharing widens over talks that still persist today."
So it seems, a priori, partly true, that some of the data transmitted over the telephone French soil is transmitted in accordance with cooperation agreements, and without sorting, the DGSE to the NSA. It is therefore data concerning French citizens receiving these communications as foreign geographic areas using these channels as well.
It seems unlikely that the French government, which oversees the funding of infrastructure interception and storage of the DGSE, do not be aware of these practices. Which puts the sincerity of French recriminations after the announcement by Le Monde, these U.S. interceptions.
GEOGRAPHY UNDERWATER
The absence of clear legal status metadata France and the strange discretion of the National Control Commission security intercepts (CNCIS) appear, in addition, have facilitated the transmission to the NSA by the DGSE of millions of data within the privacy of millions of French.
Given the amount of interceptions made in one month, advanced by the intelligence services on issues related to the fight against terrorism justification may also be questionable.
According to an official at Matignon, France is not the only " swap "and the data from its territory. She belonged to a "friendly" which includes countries such that Israel , the Sweden or Italy, which also converge to strategic submarine cables for Americans. Since 2011, a new reshuffling of cooperation and intelligence is made solely on the basis of this underwater geography.
LIABILITY POLICY FRENCH AUTHORITIES
This information therefore come specify those already published by Le Monde about the collection in a month, by the NSA, 70.3 million telephone data for France. That some of the information is transmitted with the consent of the DGSE does not change its intrusiveness freedoms. The new lighting installation primarily the responsibility of French political authorities. Sought on this cooperation, the DGSE has declined to comment.
In addition, The World continues, based on documents released by Edward Snowden to decrypt tables interception of telephone and digital data in the world, it is operations "against" a country called. In this case, France.
A senior French intelligence, seal, Wednesday morning, admitted, on condition of anonymity, the existence of "the exchange of data." He however denied "categorically" that the DGSE can transfer"70.3 million given to the NSA."
