NSA drama continues: GCHQ overheard politicians talks at the G20 summit and built fake Internet cafes
The new day brings new drama details from Edward Snowden: According to the documents that he showed to the Guardian, it turned out that the UK Government Communications Center ( GCHQ ) intercepted telephone calls from delegations of the G20 countries participating in the meeting in London in 2009.
In addition, fake Internet cafes were used to intercept email. Gained access to email read through Blackberry.
For the whole process, there were 45 analysts, information about calls (who is talking with whom) was displayed on a huge video screen in real time. The operation was authorized at the highest level by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The extracted information was transferred to his delegation in order to give them an advantage in the negotiations. ')
The report also says that experts tried to intercept and decipher satellite phone calls from London to Moscow, the President of Russia (at that time Medvedev), and other delegates.