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Fresh NSA Leaks Show US Bugs on EU Missions, Embassies

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US National Security Agency is spying on the European Union mission in New York and its embassy in Washington, according to the latest leaks from former CIA contractor Edward Snowden.

One document lists 38 embassies and missions, describing them as "targets", including bugs implanted in electronic communications to tap into cables and collection of transmissions with specialized antennae.

The list of "targets" included the EU missions and the French, Italian and Greek embassies, as well as a number of other American allies, including Japan, Mexico, South Korea, India, Turkey as well as Middle Eastern countries.

One of the bugging methods mentioned is codenamed Dropmire, which is "implanted on the Cryptofax at the EU embassy, DC".

The documents mentioned that the aim of the bugging against the EU embassy in central Washington is to gather inside knowledge of policy disagreements on global issues and other rifts between member states.

These fresh revelations come when there is outrage across the EU over evidence Snowden leaked of NSA eavesdropping on America's European allies.

The operation against the French mission to the UN had the covername "Blackfoot" and the one against its embassy in Washington was "Wabash". The Italian embassy in Washington was known to the NSA as both "Bruneau" and "Hemlock". As for the Greek UN mission, the operation was known as "Powell" and the operation against its embassy was referred to as "Klondyke".

Source: News Agencies, edited by website team