NSA Spied On The United Nations

NSA Spied On UN, German Report Says -- Deutsche Welle

The UN headquarters were being wiretapped by American intelligence agency NSA, according to German news magazine Der Spiegel. If confirmed, it would be against a long-standing agreement between the US and the UN.

Germany's Der Spiegel claims to have analyzed secret NSA documents that show that, last summer, the US intelligence agency managed to get access to the video conferencing system used at the United Nations headquarters in New York, leading to "a dramatic improvement of data on video conferencing and our ability to decode that data," according to the document.

The NSA also allegedly caught Chinese intelligence spying on the UN and started analyzing the material China was wiretapping.

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More News On Reports That The NSA Spied On The United Nations

Codename 'Apalachee': How America Spies on Europe and the UN -- Spiegel Online
NSA spied on UN, leaked files show -- CBC/Reuters
German magazine: NSA spied on United Nations -- FOX News/AP
German News Report says US Spied on United Nations -- Voice of America
Report: NSA bugged the United Nations -- UPI
Report: US hacked into UN video conferencing, spied on EU -- NBC
More spying revelations: US accused of ‘bugging United Nations HQ -- Euronews
NSA broke U.N. encryption: report -- Japan Times/AFP
NSA bugged UN headquarters - report -- RT
NSA Bugs United Nations With Enthusiasm, Documents Suggest -- Government Executive
NSA reportedly bugged UN offices, hacked into video conferencing feeds -- The Verge
NSA Hacked The UN By Cracking Its Internal Video-Conferencing System -- Fast Company
Surveillance Revelations Shake U.S.-German Ties -- New York Times

My Comment: I cannot say that I am surprised.

Update: This is interesting. Apparently when the NSA broke the UN's encryption code, they found that the Chinese had already done so and were conducting their own spy/surveillance operations .... NSA and China collaborated to spy on the UN (The TechEye)