Spiegel report: NSA spied on 122 world leaders, kept 300 files on Merkel | News | DW.DE | 29.03.2014
The
Spiegel article,
published on Saturday, cited a top-secret document from former United
States National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden as the
source for its information. According to documents shared with the
magazine by Snowden, the NSA maintained a database of world leaders that
were under the agency's surveillance in May 2009.
The list was 122 names long, but only 12 of these names were shared with
Spiegel. These names, sorted alphabetically by first name, included
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, and Yulia Tymoshenko, who was
prime minister of Ukraine at the time.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was also among the 122 names in the NSA
world leader spy database. According to Der Spiegel, the NSA had more
than 300 files on Merkel in the database.
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