U.S. spy agency bugged U.N. headquarters - Germany's Spiegel

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: Reuters

Der Spiegel said the European Union and the U.N.'s Vienna-based nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), were among those targeted by U.S. intelligence agents.

In the summer of 2012, NSA experts succeeded in getting into the U.N. video conferencing system and cracking its coding system, according one of the documents cited by Der Spiegel.

"The data traffic gives us internal video teleconferences of the United Nations (yay!)," Der Spiegel quoted one document as saying, adding that within three weeks the number of decoded communications rose to 458 from 12.

Internal files also show the NSA spied on the EU legation in New York after it moved to new rooms in autumn 2012. Among the documents copied by Snowden from NSA computers are plans of the EU mission, its IT infrastructure and servers.

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/25/uk-usa-security-nsa-idUKBRE97O08B20130825

[nashville_brook]

1. k and r

[Ash_F]

2. They did it during Bush too. While they were selling the Iraq war.

Not the first time USgov spied in UN offices which, by the way, is a breach of UN treaty that the US signed.

[Lenomsky]

3. and so it continues ..

We should ask what was not bugged rather than what was.

[NealK]

4. K&R

[Recursion]

5. And "ran in to" (virtually) the Chinese agency trying the same thing

Poor UN...