Post by Tomspy77 on Jul 1, 2013 14:16:29 GMT -6
Ghosts of America's Cold War surveillance network
These images of an abandoned NSA listening post on the outskirts of West Berlin have a special poignancy today, as it was leaks alleged that the U.S. bugs Germany, its prima facie ally, on the same scale as Communist China.
The towers, antennae and geodesic domes of Teufelsberg Hill have long since stopped eavesdropping on the airwaves, but the U.S. still taps half a billion German phone calls, emails and text messages in a typical month, it was claimed.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351959/The-ghosts-Americas-Cold-War-surveillance-network-pictured-crumbling-Berlin-revealed-NSA-bugs-Germany-scale-Communist-China.html#ixzz2XpKNJTXQ
These images of an abandoned NSA listening post on the outskirts of West Berlin have a special poignancy today, as it was leaks alleged that the U.S. bugs Germany, its prima facie ally, on the same scale as Communist China.
The towers, antennae and geodesic domes of Teufelsberg Hill have long since stopped eavesdropping on the airwaves, but the U.S. still taps half a billion German phone calls, emails and text messages in a typical month, it was claimed.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351959/The-ghosts-Americas-Cold-War-surveillance-network-pictured-crumbling-Berlin-revealed-NSA-bugs-Germany-scale-Communist-China.html#ixzz2XpKNJTXQ
