US 'used its Yorkshire base to spy on Merkel' claims whistleblower [1]

Claim: NSA whistleblower J Kirk Wiebe implicated the British base

The United States used a British spy base to listen in on the phone calls of Angela Merkel and 35 other world leaders, it was claimed last night.

RAF Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, which is run by America’s National Security Agency (NSA), is the biggest surveillance and interception facility in Europe.

More: DailyMail.co.uk [2]