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Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:10PM from the 20th-century-espionage dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Washington Post:

The CIA and German intelligence jeopardized Switzerland's historic reputation for neutrality
by using a Swiss company as a platform for a global espionage operation for decades, according
to a report released Tuesday by members of the Swiss parliament. Investigators concluded that
Swiss authorities were aware of, and at times complicit in, an elaborate espionage operation
in which the CIA covertly owned and controlled a Swiss company, Crypto AG, that secretly sold
rigged encryption systems to foreign governments.

The report marks the culmination of a Swiss investigation launched after the history of the 
Crypto operation was revealed earlier this year by The Washington Post in collaboration with 
ZDF, German public television, and Swiss broadcaster SRF. The Crypto operation exploited 
"Switzerland's image abroad as a neutral state," according to the report, which also said that
Swiss authorities had effectively allowed the CIA and its German counterpart, the BND, to carry
out "intelligence operations to the detriment of other states by hiding behind a Swiss company."
The probe marks the first public accounting by a foreign government of an espionage operation so
successful and extensive that a classified CIA history referred to it as "the intelligence coup
of the century." The CIA did not respond to a request for comment, and the BND previously declined
to comment.

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As I try and reach out to various forms of government in Canada, I shall report on what I find.

These are my notes, these blogs and I shall publish in various ways to try and garner attention.