NSA spied on the German government for decades, according to WikiLeaks (German)(spiegel.de)
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NSA spied on the German government for decades, according to WikiLeaks (German)
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/wikileaks-nsa-spioniert-kanzleramt-seit-jahrzehnten-aus-a-1042737.html
WikiLeaks has just published new documents about U.S. spy targets in Germany, according to which the NSA has been conducting comprehensive surveillance on the BRD government for decades. The eavesdropping is said to have gone as far back as the Kohl administration.
The federal government has apparently been under surveillance longer and more systematically than has hitherto been assumed. Yesterday evening the leak-disseminating website WikiLeaks published a list of telephone numbers that are said to have been targeted by the NSA. Among the 56 numbers are dozens belonging to high-ranking officials in the Chancellor's Office -- both during the Bonn era as well as after the Government's move to Berlin.
In addition to elected officials, non-elected officials responsible in the foreign ministry and intelligence services were targeted. The list is quite impressive: among the 56 numbers targeted were high-ranking officials from the administrations of Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schröder on up through Angela Merkel. Around two dozen numbers are still active today, some of them dating to the time before unification, when the Government was still located in Bonn.