11 minutes agoPlas scandal: US, Germany spy 120 world governments
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(6 years ago)German and American secret services had secretly collected classified communications of governments for decades through the secret control of a deciphering company, reports have said. The Swiss firm Crypto AG had offered more than 120 government deciphering equipment during the Cold War period until the 2000s. But [...]
The Swiss firm Crypto AG had offered more than 120 government deciphering equipment during the Cold War period until the 2000s.
But spies reportedly had manipulated the device in such a way that they could locate the codes and read the messages, writes the BBC, translates Periscope.
They had stolen secrets from various states, including Iran, India and Paquisan.
The highly classified programme between the US and German CIA is detailed in some reports by the Washington Post, German television ZDF and Swiss SRF.
These mediums had taken access to the CIA's internal history, which had called the operation “
In the 1980 ' s, nearly 40 percent of foreign communications had been processed by American intelligence officials.
The Swiss company had benefited millions of dollars later to the CIA and the BND.
This operation had allowed the United States to monitor Iranian officials during the hostage crisis in 1979, and had also served Great Britain with information about the Argentian Army during the Washington Post war.
Russia and China had never believed these cars, nor had they used them. /Periscope
