Sneaky Kiwis: Snowden leak exposes NZ doing NSA’s Pacific dirty-work
RT.com
March 05, 2015
New Zealand’s security agency is spying on its closest neighbors in the Pacific by collecting phone calls, emails and internet data, and then sending that data to its ally, America’s NSA, leaked Snowden files claim.
According to the new leak, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), the New Zealand equivalent of NSA, has been targeting the Pacific island countries such as Tuvalu, Nauru, Kiribati, Samoa, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Fiji and Tonga. France’s overseas territories of New Caledonia and French Polynesia were also on the GCSB list. Each of these tiny countries has close and friendly relations with New Zealand.
The documents, obtained from Edward Snowden and published in the New Zealand Herald and the Intercept portray a special role for GCSB in the Five Eyes alliance comprising Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
In 2013, the NSA whistleblower handed over thousands of classified documents to journalists, blowing the lid off a Five Eyes ring involved in a global surveillance partnership of sorts.
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