3Photo© timesofindia.indiatimes.comCIA spied on countries including India, Pakistan through secretly-owned Swiss encryption firm, says report
The CIA read the encrypted messages of several countries, including India, for decades through its secretly-owned Switzerland-based company trusted by governments all over the world to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers and diplomats secret, according to a leading American daily.
According to a report by The Washington Post and German public broadcaster ZDF published on Tuesday, the company, Crypto AG, entered into a deal with America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1951 and came under its ownership in the 1970s.
The joint reporting project, which uncovered the secret operation from CIA classified documents, described how the US and its allies exploited other nations’ gullibility for years, taking their money and stealing their secrets.