U.S. NSA listened European embassies

      The National Security Agency (NSA) monitored the 38 U.S. embassies and diplomatic missions, including embassies its NATO allies France and Italy, writes British  publication Guardian referring to the journalists at the disposal of the document.

     The document provided the former edition of Booz Allen Hamilton - Contractor U.S. Central Intelligence Agency - Edward Snowden, who had previously disclosed the information about a large-scale surveillance of U.S. intelligence for telephone calls and Internet activity of users around the world.

        According to  RIA Novosti , the document dated September 2010, lists 38 embassies and diplomatic missions that are designated as "targets." The document also allows us to understand how to carry out surveillance of diplomats.

       Thus, the intelligence officers with special technical means to have access to electronic communications, to telephone lines in buildings missions and diplomats can listen to communications with a special antenna.

      Among the goals listed in the document not only the countries with which the United States has strained relations, but allies of the American state. In particular, the secret service spying missions the EU, France, Italy, Greece, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, India and Turkey. The publication stresses that are not mentioned in the document of foreign countries in Western Europe, including the UK and Germany.

       On Saturday, the German edition of  Spiegel  also citing documents Snowden wrote that NSA monitored the Delegation of the European Union in Washington and New York, and hacks into their computer networks. The authorities of the EU countries have expressed concern that information, and demanded an official explanation from Washington. 

     Deutsche Welle  reports that the U.S. spies in the German telecommunications higher than in other EU countries.In the documents of the National Security Agency Germany to designate sites of network intrusions.

       The National Security Agency collects monthly and handles about 500 million contacts in telecommunication networks in Germany. In particular, the intelligence agency monitors phone calls, emails, SMS-messages and conversation in a chat room. The information was published in the Sunday, June 30, online edition of Spiegel Online on the basis of caught him secret documents NSA.

      German journalists received paper suggests that in normal days through the filter passes the U.S. intelligence services to 20 million phone connections, and about ten million cases of transmission of data over the Internet. On some days, such as the January 7, 2013, NSA is informed by listening to some 60 million phone calls in Germany.At that NSA is in Germany a much more active intelligence activities than in other EU countries. For example, in France, the Americans daily fix just over two million calls.

      Another discovery was to classify the states, which is the special service. In Germany it belongs to the third category, and at the same time is designated as a partner and as an object of network intrusions. As reported by AFP, the second category includes countries such as Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and New Zealand. They NSA does not conduct telephone and Internet surveillance. In the documents of special services directly that its experts trace the signals most of the partners the third category.