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The UK may be operating “a top-secret listening post from its Berlin embassy to eavesdrop on the seat of German power”, reports The Independent.
The revelation has come in the wake of disclosures by US National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden, which highlighted Britain’s role as one of the “Five Eyes” in an international espionage coalition alongside the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. According to the daily —
Aerial photographs of the British embassy in Berlin show a potential eavesdropping base enclosed inside a white, cylindrical tent-like structure which cannot be easily seen from the streets. The structure has been in place since the embassy, which was built following the reunification of Germany, opened in 2000.
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