Intelligence

NSA should be more of Merkel know known as

Insider just shrug – but the Public listens to: The U.S. secret service, the Chancellor of comprehensive bugged than previously revealed. It was the United States still has a lot more to ears.

“Can you hear me?” Angela Merkel in conversation (file picture)

The alleged eavesdropping by U.S. spies on German Chancellor Angela Merkel seems to be on a larger scale than previously known. The Wikileaks published more than secret classified documents, according to which the US intelligence service National Security Agency (NSA), among other things, a conversation, Merkel with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon have listened to.

According to the conversation, praised the Ban in December 2008, Merkel’s efforts in the fight against climate change and Convincing EU colleagues: The world expect the European Union to their Leadership role for maintaining. Because without these impulses, it will be very difficult, at the upcoming climate conferences to achieve progress. In the interview, have the UN Secretary-General also by a favourable opportunity spoken to the government of the newly elected US President Barack Obama in the fight against climate change, to integrate.

“Research and Engineering”: the headquarters of the US-secret service NSA in Fort Meade (file picture)

“Very brusquely”

This wanted to the USA, probably not only in the framework of the official negotiations experience – as well as the contents of a “private” Dreiergesprächs, the Merkel in October 2011, with the former French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the then Italy Governor, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi introduced. “Very brusquely” is the encounter run. Merkel and Sarkozy had the Italians because of the drastic debt burden of his country’s taken, it says in a document that is based on Statements made by Berlusconi’s political Advisor Valentino Valentini to based seems.

Also the phones of leading employees of the world trade organization (WTO) and the UN refugee Agency, UNHCR, were Wikileaks, according to tapped. The founder of the Enthüllungsplattform, Julian Assange, said: “The response from the United Nations will be interesting, because if the Secretary General followed up the visor can be taken, then everyone is in danger – from the leaders to the street sweeper.”

jj/SC (dpa, afp)