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Germany’s Intelligence Service Spied on Journalists, Report Says

2017-02-26 3 Dailymotion

Germany’s Intelligence Service Spied on Journalists, Report Says<br />25, 2017<br />BERLIN — Germany’s foreign intelligence service apparently spied on the phones, faxes or emails of several foreign news organizations, including The New York Times, the British Broadcasting Corporation<br />and Reuters, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday.<br />The reference to a New York Times connection appeared to be a satellite phone number<br />that was used around the time of Afghanistan’s first presidential election in 2004, after the American-led coalition entered Afghanistan, Mr. Knobbe said in a telephone interview.<br />Der Spiegel said that it saw a list that indicated<br />that the German intelligence service, the BND, had monitored at least 50 phone numbers, fax numbers and email addresses beginning in 1999.<br />Der Spiegel noted that the activities of the BND had come under scrutiny during a three-year parliamentary investigation of allegations<br />that the intelligence services of the United States had conducted mass surveillance outside the United States.<br />The only journalist identified by name as having been monitored was Arnaud Zajtman, 44, a Belgian journalist who Der Spiegel<br />said had worked for almost 20 years in Africa, including a decade in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo.<br />The German newsmagazine said it had contacted Mr. Zajtman and told him<br />that it appeared that the BND had noted the telephone numbers of two of his Congolese contacts.

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