NSA paid $152M over 3 years to British spy agency, new Snowden docs show
"[Government Communications Headquarters] must pull its weight," UK spies wrote.
According to a new report by The Guardian, the American
government has paid “at least £100 million [$152 million] to the UK spy
agency GCHQ [Government Communications Headquarters] over the last three
years to secure access to and influence over Britain's intelligence
gathering programs.”
The Guardian wrote on Thursday that Edward Snowden provided documents showing that the National Security Agency (NSA) paid around $152 million to its British sister spy agency, the GCHQ, since 2010. "GCHQ must pull its weight and be seen to pull its weight," a GCHQ strategy briefing reportedly said.
Many intelligence community watchers have long suspected that British and American intelligence simply swap information as a way to skirt each other’s mandate to not spy on their own citizens domestically. The newspaper also said that the GCHQ has efforts underway to "exploit any phone, anywhere, any time,” and that “60 percent of all Britain’s refined intelligence appears to come from the NSA.”
As The Guardian reported:
The Guardian wrote on Thursday that Edward Snowden provided documents showing that the National Security Agency (NSA) paid around $152 million to its British sister spy agency, the GCHQ, since 2010. "GCHQ must pull its weight and be seen to pull its weight," a GCHQ strategy briefing reportedly said.
Many intelligence community watchers have long suspected that British and American intelligence simply swap information as a way to skirt each other’s mandate to not spy on their own citizens domestically. The newspaper also said that the GCHQ has efforts underway to "exploit any phone, anywhere, any time,” and that “60 percent of all Britain’s refined intelligence appears to come from the NSA.”
As The Guardian reported:
When GCHQ does supply the US with valuable intelligence, the agency boasts about it. In one review, GCHQ boasted that it had supplied "unique contributions" to the NSA during its investigation of the American citizen responsible for an attempted car bomb attack in Times Square, New York City, in 2010.
No other detail is provided – but it raises the possibility that GCHQ might have been spying on an American living in the US. The NSA is prohibited from doing this by US law.
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