Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Et Tu, UK? Anger Grows over British Spying in Berlin


SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL: First it was the US -- and now it turns out the UK might have been spying from its embassy in Berlin, too. German politicians say they feel doubly betrayed.

Germany has been rocked by the revelation that yet another close ally might be spying on its leaders from an embassy in Berlin. The London-based newspaper The Independent revealed Monday that British intelligence had established a "secret listening post" in the British Embassy like the one recently revealed by SPIEGEL to be in the US Embassy on the same large block. The British post, like the American one, is located near the German parliament, the Reichstag, and was disclosed in the trove of data leaked by American intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden. » | tmr | Tuesday, November 05, 2013