Spying in the United Nations
National security agency of the United States was accused of spying on the UN Security Council in order to gain intelligence form within UN and ensure its support for the invasion of Iraq. This controversial information was released by the press in March 2005.
It was alleged that Australia and the United Kingdom were also committing such acts in accordance with the US.
An investigative report published in the British newspaper `The Observer` revealed that the phone calls, emails of several high ranking UN official and diplomats including UN Secretary of State, Kofi Annan, were being intercepted. The operation was mainly directed at the delegations from certain countries such as Angola, Chile, and Pakistan etc to find information regarding their vote on second resolution on Iraq. NSA was also advised to collect information on their policies, alliances and their dependencies so that the policy makers in US would have an upper hand in obtaining results to their favor.
US officials have raised question over the originality and the authenticity of such reports.
Nonetheless the story was carried with great enthusiasm by the press especially in the UK, Australia and served as a further embarrassment to the already controversies afflicted Bush’s administration. It provided a blow to the US efforts to rally support for its plans to carry out invasion of Iraq, which took place nonetheless.
It was also reported that in actuality several bugging devices were found in UN.
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