How The U.S. Spied In The Past

Crumbling: Graffiti covers the broken antennae covers of the former National Security Agency listening station on Teufelsberg Hill. The base shut down in 1992 after the end of the Cold War but, it emerged today, the U.S. still taps half a billion German phone calls, emails and text messages in a typical month

The Ghosts Of America's Cold War Surveillance Network Pictured Crumbling In Berlin As It's Alleged The NSA Still Bugs Germany On The Same Scale As Communist China -- Daily Mail

* Teufelsberg Hill is a remnant of the U.S. and its allies' Cold War-era ECHELON eavesdropping programme
* It's towers, antennae and geodesic domes stopped operating in 1992 and sensitive equipment was removed
* But leaks reported in Der Spiegel claim U.S. still taps half a billion German phone calls, emails and texts every month
* The revelations come amid claims that the NSA is engaged in large-scale tapping of EU officials and politicians

These images of an abandoned NSA listening post on the outskirts of West Berlin have a special poignancy today, as it was leaks alleged that the U.S. bugs Germany, its prima facie ally, on the same scale as Communist China.

The towers, antennae and geodesic domes of Teufelsberg Hill have long since stopped eavesdropping on the airwaves, but the U.S. still taps half a billion German phone calls, emails and text messages in a typical month, it was claimed.

Information leaked by NSA whistleblower Ed Snowden to Der Spiegel showed that America apparently ranks the key ally alongside China, Iraq or Saudi Arabia on the scale of its electronic snooping.

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My Comment:The U.S. has definitely gotten better at spying and surveillance over the years.