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NSA Spied on Austria From German 
Intelligence Station

The United States' National Security Agency (NSA) used the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) station in Bad Aibling in Bavaria, to monitor Austrian authorities, said the publication Bild am Sonntag, with reference to an internal email to the BND.

A German intelligence officer checked the lists of selectors which were sent to the US intelligence agencies. Using the search terms ‘government’ (gov), ‘diplomat’ (diplo) and ‘federal agency’ (Bundesamt), the employee found 12,000 files. According to the publication, more than ten thousand referred to the Government of Austria.