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The Sunday Times has been given exclusive access to the base as GCHQ today announces a significant expansion of its northern spy hub.
According to a joint investigation by Field Of Vision and The Intercept – an online mag whose editors include former Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald – it is also an NSA spy hub.
The disclosure underlines the importance of the US spy hub at RAF Menwith Hill in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, where hundreds of NSA analysts are based, working alongside liaison officers from GCHQ.
Feinstein had been the most public defender of the NSA's massive surveillance practices, until German Chancellor Angela Merkel freaked out over the fact that the U.S. had maintained a secret spy hub in the embassy.
While the building at 33 Thomas Street in Lower Manhattan is technically owned and occupied by AT&T and Verizon, it's reportedly used as the National Security Agency's spy hub.
In October of that year, the German magazine Der Spiegel, citing Snowden's archives, reported that the NSA had established a "spy hub" in Berlin, where the agency reportedly listened in on the cellphone conversations of Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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Other revelations that we have built "secret spy hubs" in Berlin and other locations undercut our ability to conduct normal foreign policy with our allies.
A major scandal broke out in Germany in October of 2013 when it was revealed that the NSA had been monitoring European leaders from a spying hub in the United States German Embassy.
It was recently revealed that the National Security Agency secretly monitored European leaders and 60 million Spanish phone calls from a spying hub in the United States German Embassy, all while President Obama was reportedly oblivious to the program.
According to O Globo, the joint NSA-CIA spying hub functioned "at least until 2002," the same year Lula took over from Cardoso.
From documents provided by notorious NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Germany's Der Spiegel reports that U.S. spies posed as diplomats and set up spying hubs in Frankfurt and Berlin.
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