New Snowden Documents Show NSA-Germany Spy Links: Report - ABC News
New secret documents allegedly stolen from the U.S. National Security
Agency by Edward Snowden show how closely German intelligence
cooperates with the NSA, despite the German government’s harsh criticism
of American surveillance, according to a major German newspaper.
The documents, as reported by Germany’s Der Spiegel,
describe how the NSA gave Germany one of its spying programs, called
XKeyscore, and a trip in which NSA experts briefed German intelligence
officers in a “strategic planning conference” at NSA headquarters on
American surveillance capabilities.
According to Der Spiegel, educational slides about XKeyscore reveal
the program is designed to absorb a “full take” of unfiltered data,
including at least part of the contents of communications, for days and
makes it possible to retroactively search for key words that may have
been entered into online search engines or for locations searched on
Google Maps.
Additionally, the NSA documents reportedly reveal an NSA officer,
officially known as a diplomat at the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, regularly
uses a desk at the headquarters of a German intelligence agency.
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