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ITALY-NSA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: Revealed: How the Nsa Targets Italy

06 December 2013

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"A special unit operating under cover and protected by diplomatic immunity, assigned to a very sensitive mission: to spy on the communication of the Italian leadership. That is what top secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden and published in Italy exclusively by l'Espresso in collaboration with "la Repubblica" reveal. A file mentions the "Special Collection Service " (SCS) sites in Rome and in Milan, the very same service which, according to the German weekly "Der Spiegel ", spied on the mobile phone of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel....The Special Collection Service is likely one of the most sensitive units in U.S. intelligence. The service deploys teams under diplomatic cover, operating in US embassies around the world to control friendly and enemy governments."

See the full article: Revealed: How the Nsa Targets Italy (L'Expresso, link)

Also see: Close Access SIGADS - Italy (pdf) and SCS: Global Special Collection Centres (pdf)

And see: The Guardian: Special supplement on Snowden-NSA-GCHQ (link)

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