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Wikileaks: NSA Spied On Israel's Attempts To Repair Relations With US
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Intercept


The Intercept, February 22, 2016
Posted: February 28th, 2016
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/22/wikileaks-nsa-spied-on-i...

Newly published classified documents show the National Security Agency spied on a 2010 conversation between Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the two discussed ways to improve Israels relationship with the United States. The Italian-Israeli conversation is included in one of five NSA documents released Tuesday by WikiLeaks. Two of the documents focus on climate change, one relates to trade talks, and two report on Italian government communications. The intelligence reports date from 2007 through 2011, [and] provide additional details on U.S. efforts to spy on countries taking part in the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, which failed to reach an agreement. One ... contains details of a confidential discussion about climate change negotiations between U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the lead-up to the conference. The NSA report is stamped U.N. diplomatic, German leadership, and Top Secret Gamma, the Gamma indicating an extremely sensitive spying operation. The interception methods stated on the latest leaked intelligence reports are Unconventional and SCS, which stands for Special Collection Service. SCS involves joint NSA and CIA eavesdropping operations run covertly inside U.S. and allied foreign embassy buildings in foreign capitals.

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