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Cape Town — South Africa’s diplomatic mission to the UN and its New York consulate offices have been spied upon by the US National Security Agency, reports the Sunday Times.According to the newspaper, the 9th floor offices in Manhattan, New York, were monitored with bugs and technology that lifts data from computer monitors.
This information reportedly came to light after Edward Snowden leaked a cache of top-secret documents last year that uncovered the massive interception of global communications by US and UK spy agencies.
One of those documents, containing a list of embassies and foreign missions targeted for eaves-dropping, was published last week in a book by journalist Glenn Greenwald entitled No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the US Surveillance State. Spokesperson for the Department of international Relations and Co-operation, Clayson Monyela, said the South African government was aware of the situation and that it was an “open secret” that countries spied on each other. — News24
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