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US Intelligence Agency Shared Spying Tech With: Spain, UK, Canada And New Zealand And Others video and pictures
by Monica Davis
A Spanish newspaper has lown the whistle on global spying. It seems that many countries can’t get too ticked of at US spying: they cooperated with it.
From Spain to New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and Israel, the gloal spy network shared information in a worldwide spy network. What the “global partners” didn’t expect was that they’d be spied on, too.
Aparently sharing information with the US was not a get out of jail card. The “partners” got spied on, as well.
l Mundo says it has document detailing collaboration between US intelligence agency and foreign countries
The widespread surveillance of Spanish citizens by the US National Security Agency, which caused outrage when it was reported this week, was the product of a collaboration with Spain’s intelligence services, according to one Spanish newspaper.
In the latest revelations to emerge from the documents leaked by the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, Spanish agents not only knew about the work of the NSA but also facilitated it, El Mundo reports.
An NSA document entitled “Sharing computer network operations cryptologic information with foreign partners” reportedly shows how the US relies on the collaboration of many countries to give it access to intelligence information, including electronic metadata.
According to the document seen by El Mundo, the US classifies cooperation with various countries on four different levels. In the first group – “Comprehensive Cooperation” – are the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. The second group – “Focused Cooperation” – of which Spain is a member, includes 19 countries, all of them European, apart from Japan and South Korea. The third group – “Limited cooperation” – consists of countries such as France, Israel, India and Pakistan; while the fourth – “Exceptional Cooperation” – is made up of countries that the US considers to be hostile to its interests.
The reports come a day after the director of the NSA, General Keith B Alexander, testified before the US house intelligence committee that suggestions the agency monitored millions of calls in Spain, France and Italy were “completely false” and that this data had been at least partially collected by the intelligence services of those countries and then passed on to the NSA. MOREHERE
