Chancellor Angela Merkel has ordered her counter-espionage services to begin surveillance of British and American intelligence gathering in Germany for the first time since 1945 in response to a series of US spy scandals which have badly soured relations between Berlin and Washington.<\/p>\n
The S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung and two-state funded German TV channels, WDR and NDR, quoted an unnamed Berlin government source who said Ms Merkel\u2019s Chancellery and her interior and foreign ministries had agreed to launch counter-espionage measures against Britain and the US for the first time.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight now we need to send a strong signal,\u201d the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung quoted the source as saying. The extraordinary measures are a direct response to a series of embarrassing US and British spying scandals in Germany which began last year with revelations that the US National Security Agency had bugged Ms Merkel\u2019s mobile phone.<\/p>\n
The Chancellor protested on several occasions that she was \u201cnot amused\u201d by the disclosures<\/p>\n
The Independent subsequently revealed that like the Americans, Britain was operating a secret GCHQ listening post from the top of its Berlin embassy. A similar listening post on the roof of the US embassy in Berlin was almost certainly used to eavesdrop on Ms Merkel\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n
Source: The Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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