New details cast a harsh light on the “special relationship” in US-British spy. Several newspapers, including Britain, have investigated the revelations of Edward Snowden, former U.S. refugee consultant in Russia. Particular, they argue that the NSA has funded largely GCHQ, the largest British intelligence agency.
Absolute discretion is the golden rule of the British Government Agency Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). With over 6,000 employees, it is the largest British intelligence agency. She works hand in hand with the National Security Agency (NSA), which would have even funded nearly 120 million over the past three years.
The director of the French Centre for Research on Intelligence, Eric Dénécé, told Agency France-Presse that the GCHQ is roughly “ten times smaller ”than the NSA.
Tempora
Yet Edward Snowden considers that in terms of private data espionage, the British agency was worse than the Americans. She would have gained access to more than 200 transatlantic cables fiber optic communications, which could allow it to handle up to 600 million data every day.
According to documents provided by Snowden, the United Kingdom has established a vast surveillance operation called Tempora, with a budget of over one billion euros and several secret bases around the world, including the Middle East. There would be a real “division of labor “,” interception of satellite bandwidth and listen” to the Americans,” plays on the ground and the interception of computers for the British. “
The United States funded the largest intelligence agency UK
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