French and Spanish intelligence aided NSA spying [1]

 

RT - 10/29/13

Threat Operations Center inside the National Security Agency (NSA) in suburban Fort Mead, Maryland (AFP Photo)

 

Electronic surveillance which the European media and politicians blamed on the NSA was also carried out by their own intelligence services, as part of a wide-ranging allied security effort, according to US officials.

This is a markedly different version of events to what has been reported in Europe and throws up questions about the level of European involvement in global surveillance.

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