British Use Cyprus Base to Spy on Middle East

British spies from GCHQ are able to tap into 14 undersea cables which pass through Cyprus from the Middle East, North Africa and Europe, accessing tens of millions of emails, telephone calls, instant messages and other web-based traffic, it was claimed. The listening station, which consists of satellite dishes, antennas and operational buildings and can be seen on Google Earth satellite images, is located at Ayios Nikolaos on the British sovereign military base at Dhekelia, towards the east of the island. The revelations came from an investigation into British espionage on the island by Ta Nea, a Greek newspaper, Alpha TV, a Greek television station, L?Espresso, an Italian news weekly and a German daily, Sueddeutsche Zeitung.

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