US spying 'old news' to Bundeswehr
US spying 'old news' to Bundeswehr
The German military has known for years of the sweeping US online surveillance programme PRISM, a newspaper reported Wednesday, citing a NATO document from the Afghanistan mission.
The September 2011 letter from the International Security Assistance Force headquarters in Kabul to regional commands makes specific mention of the phone and email surveillance programme run by the US National Security Agency (NSA),
said the Bild daily.
The NSA director had instructed the US military to coordinate surveillance operations in Afghanistan, said the letter from ISAF headquarters to the commands, including the northern Mazar-i-Sharif, led by the German Bundeswehr.
The Bild daily also reported this week that Germany's foreign intelligence service the BND had previously requested PRISM communication data in searches for German kidnap victims abroad.
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20130717-50903.html
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