France, Germany and other EU countries because they become the U.S. listening target

At the end of October, Snowden had exposed multinational citizens and government agencies to the United States National Security Agency for large-scale monitoring of the scandal, France, Germany and other EU countries because they become the United States monitoring targets, have expressed strong dissatisfaction, the United States "monitoring war." However, according to the latest news, France, one of the "victims", is also the "accomplice" of American surveillance.

According to the French World news website, Snowden recently provided the latest evidence that the French general administration of foreign Security (DGSE) and the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and the British National Communications General Administration (GCHQ), maintained a "close relationship." In the name of counter-terrorism, the French general administration of foreign Security has established an intelligence exchange mechanism with Britain and the United States, and its areas of cooperation cover both technical and human intelligence. Within this framework, a large amount of data stored in French territory can be transmitted to the servers of the US and UK intelligence agencies.

The first "Top Secret" document, written on August 6, 2007, was the head of the U.S. National Security Agency in Paris. Since 2006, the Foreign Relations Department of the U.S. National Security Agency and the technical Department of the General Administration of foreign security in France have opened a frank discussion on information needs and the establishment of cooperation mechanisms, and since then "Cooperation with the General Directorate of Foreign Security in France has entered a new field," the paper said. The areas of communication between the two parties are not limited to technical data, but also to information obtained from each other. Subsequently, France and the United States intelligence agencies in Africa and counter-terrorism issues on a number of cooperation, and the formation of exchange of visits mechanism.

In 2008, the French General administration of foreign security strengthened its cooperation with the National Communications Directorate of the United Kingdom. The Guardian of the UK has previously disclosed that "the French general administration of foreign security is a very active partner with excellent technical capability and is willing to cooperate and communicate with the National communications Bureau." 2009, the two sides in the Internet large-scale monitoring and other technical areas launched a number of cooperation.

According to French media reports, a senior French intelligence agency official said such information-sharing mechanism can not avoid the "small deception" between each other. But he also pointed out that from the end of 2011 to the beginning of 2012, the French General administration of external Security and the United States and British intelligence agencies to deepen cooperation, and the U.S. National Security Agency signed a large-scale data exchange agreement.

According to the documents disclosed by Snowden, France has a strategic position in the submarine cable, France and the outside world through the submarine cable communication of various electronic information, the French general administration of foreign security monitoring is an important goal. Most of the information that France provides to the NSA comes from these submarine cables.

Although the General Directorate of External Security will sift through these vast and complex information and remove content that involves French state secrets, there is always something missing. "There are many reasons for this," the intelligence official explained to Le Monde. Not every piece of information is explicitly from a French address, and some information cannot be identified for a limited time, and France does not have the means to acquire and process specific electronic information. ”

As a result, the state of France's intelligence cooperation with the United States is that personal information from African and Middle Eastern citizens, and even the French themselves-businessmen, diplomats, foreign French citizens of all kinds of information and data, through the French relay, the final may be in the name of the United States Security Bureau in the hands

So far, the French foreign Security Agency and the United States Security Bureau declined to comment on the matter. Earlier, the French government had accused the United States of a global monitoring program, even at the EU summit with Germany and other European partners to the United States to claim. Now, the latest Snowden of the news, the French government has undoubtedly put the embarrassing situation.