‘Intel coup of the century’: CIA used Swiss encryption firm to spy on dozens of nations DMT.NEWS
CRYPTO helped CIA break codes
- published: 11 Feb 2020
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Video shows: swiss company CRYPTO AG OFFICES / file images of switzerland federal supreme court. Switzerland is probing news reports that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and West Germany\'s spy service used a Swiss company\'s encryption technology to covertly crack other nations\' top-secret messages, the Swiss defence ministry said on Tuesday (February 11). The company, called Crypto AG, sold code-making equipment to Iran, Latin American nations, India, Pakistan and dozens of other countries. The technology was modified to let the CIA and Germany\'s BND break codes, the Washington Post reported along with German and Swiss broadcasters ZDF and SRF. The reports cite a classified CIA history to underpin the allegations, some of which date back at least to 1992, when one of Crypto\'s employees was arrested and held in Iran for nine months as a suspected spy. At the time, the company called reports that it was a secret asset of Western intelligence agencies \"an unbelievable conspiracy theory,\" according to a report in German magazine Focus detailing a 1994 book on the subject. After being told late last year of fresh research about the company, the Swiss government in January appointed a former Swiss Supreme Court judge to scrutinise Crypto\'s activities \"to investigate and clarify the facts of the matter\", the defence ministry said in a statement. Judge Niklaus Oberholzer is due to report back by the end of June, after which the Swiss cabinet will be briefed....
CRYPTO helped CIA break codes
- published: 11 Feb 2020
- views: 293
Video shows: swiss company CRYPTO AG OFFICES / file images of switzerland federal supreme court. Switzerland is probing news reports that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and West Germany\'s spy service used a Swiss company\'s encryption technology to covertly crack other nations\' top-secret messages, the Swiss defence ministry said on Tuesday (February 11). The company, called Crypto AG, sold code-making equipment to Iran, Latin American nations, India, Pakistan and dozens of other countries. The technology was modified to let the CIA and Germany\'s BND break codes, the Washington Post reported along with German and Swiss broadcasters ZDF and SRF. The reports cite a classified CIA history to underpin the allegations, some of which date back at least to 1992, when one of Crypto\'s employees was arrested and held in Iran for nine months as a suspected spy. At the time, the company called reports that it was a secret asset of Western intelligence agencies \"an unbelievable conspiracy theory,\" according to a report in German magazine Focus detailing a 1994 book on the subject. After being told late last year of fresh research about the company, the Swiss government in January appointed a former Swiss Supreme Court judge to scrutinise Crypto\'s activities \"to investigate and clarify the facts of the matter\", the defence ministry said in a statement. Judge Niklaus Oberholzer is due to report back by the end of June, after which the Swiss cabinet will be briefed....
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