The National Security Agency Has a Special Fusion Center in Mexican US Embassy Ken Hanly - Digital Journal
go to original February 27, 2014

Mexico - Edward Snowden's leaks reveal that the U.S. National Security Agency had spied on President Felipe Calderon, his cabinet, as well as president Enrique Nieto.

In August of 2009 an operation with the politically incorrect code name Whitetamale hacked into Mexico's Public Security Secretariat which is responsible for policing drug trafficking. Another operation with the code Eveningeasel collected Mexican phone calls and texts. As Der Spiegel, the German news magazine, put it:

"The NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. It hacked into the president's public email account and gained deep insight into policymaking and the political system."

Eveningeasel, Whitetamale and another program Flatliquid were conducted from the San Antonio Texas office of the NSA. However, other Snowden documents show internet traffic was captured and analyzed at a diplomatic post in Mexico city. The documents show that the US embassy in Mexico City also was a host to agents of the NSA/CIA Special Collection Service a black budget program whose goal is to bug foreign embassies as well as government facilities.

Recently, a declassified memo shows that the NSA actually has a secret office in the U.S. embassy in Mexico City. The facility is called a fusion center used to combine and then share intelligence with different agencies. Many already exist in the U.S. itself. The centers were developed after 9/11 as a response to the lack of sharing of information by different government agencies.

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