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The US has installed electronic bugs in European Union offices in New York and Washington DC as part of a large scale intelligence gathering operation targeting international embassies and overseas missions, according to new information in The Guardian.
The revelations, which follow similar reports in Der Spiegel over the weekend, are part of the documents leaked by former US National Security Agency employee Edward Snowden.
According to documents dated in 2010, the US sought to spy on EU missions in the French, Italian and Greek embassies. The news triggered a furious response from Germany who accused the US of treating it like a “cold war enemy”.
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