Germany is NSA’s primary host of surveillance architecture in Europe – report — RT News
The US National Security Agency has turned Germany into its most important base for surveillance operations in Europe, developing an “intimate relationship” over the past 13 years, Der Spiegel revealed.
The NSA has not only been spying on German citizens, but the country has also become home to the agency’s key data collection centers in Europe, German magazine Der Spiegel revealed on its website Wednesday in an article based on the analysis of documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden and information from other sources.
“No other country in Europe plays host to a secret NSA surveillance architecture like the one in Germany…In 2007, the NSA claimed to have at least a dozen active collection sites in Germany,” Der Spiegel said.
Snowden’s leaked documents show that the “all-powerful American intelligence agency” has developed an “increasingly intimate relationship with Germany over the past 13 years while massively expanding its presence,” the article reads.
The media reveals that one of the key NSA bases is located in Wiesbaden, southwest Germany, named European Technical Center (ETC), and it has been much developed by the US in the recent years. As the article states Building 4009 of the “Storage Station”, publically known as a US military compound, was never suspected to be a data collecting center.
