Posted: 07 Sep 2015 09:00 PM PDT
The United States Central Intelligence Agency had direct and unfiltered
access to telecommunications data exchanged between German citizens,
according to a new document that has surfaced in the German press. The
program, codenamed GLOTAIC, was a collaboration between the CIA and
Germany's Federal Intelligence Service, known as BND. According to
German newsmagazine Der Spiegel, which revealed the existence of the
program last week, it lasted from 2004 to 2006. During those years, the
CIA was given access to telephone and fax data carried by US
telecommunications provider MCI Communications, which is owned by
Verizon. The US-headquartered company owns a network switching facility
in the German city of Hilden, located 10 miles east of Düsseldorf near
the country's border with Holland.
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