The big three: Sweden reacts to report of intel cooperation with NSA, GCHQ
Sweden’s leaders came forward to express deep concern after a report alleged that the country’s spy agency has close ties with the NSA and GCHQ, and is the third major partner in surveillance cooperation.
"It's a very serious matter if Sweden is indeed involved in American surveillance programs," Green Party IT policy spokeswoman Maria Ferm told Sweden’s The Local. "I'm very concerned about the information that came up in the hearing," she said.
According to a report in the Metro daily, investigative journalist Duncan Campbell disclosed information about Sweden’s ties to the NSA during a hearing on the wiretapping scandal of a committee in the European Parliament.
Campbell revealed that the Swedish National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) provided the NSA and Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) access to Baltic underwater cables. He added that Sweden was the third major partner in surveillance cooperation.
http://rt.com/news/sweden-cooperation-nsa-gchq-536/
