Sweden helped America spy, report says
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Sweden has been a key partner for the United States in spying on Russia, Swedish television reported yesterday, citing leaked documents from the US National Security Agency.
Swedish television said it had obtained documents from Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who brought NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s leaks about mass surveillance by the agency to world attention.
Greenwald tweeted yesterday that the close relationship between the US and Sweden could not be “overstated” and more revelations were to come.
Earlier this year, Snowden leaked details of a global spying program by the NSA, stirring international criticism. The US has said much of the information was a result of cooperation with other intelligence services.
Swedish television cited a document dated on April 18 saying Sweden’s National Defense Radio Establishment, which conducts electronic communications surveillance, had helped in providing the US with information on Russia.
“The FRA provided NSA... a unique collection on high-priority Russian targets, such as leadership, internal politics,” it quoted the document saying.
Sweden’s defense minister said yesterday it cooperates with some other countries but does not say which.
“It is very important to have a defense intelligence cooperation so that we can keep track of external threats to Swedish interests,” Karin Enstrom told Swedish news agency TT. “That we cooperate is something very natural. We build our security in cooperation with other countries and other organizations.”
In a separate document, high level NSA employees were told to “thank Sweden for its continued work on the Russian target, and underscore the primary role that FRA plays as a leading partner to work the Russian target, including Russian leadership and counterintelligence.”
Snowden was granted asylum by Russia.
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