60 million U.S. wiretapping of Spain calls in a month

Within a month of the end of 2012, U.S. intelligence tracked 60 million phone calls in Spanish media said the water. Meanwhile, the U.S. also have information to support proposed Japanese track data on fiber to Japan.


The paper said the information was revealed in documents of the former U.S. spy Edward Snowden . According to the National Security Agency U.S. ( NSA ) has collected information telephone number and location of the recipient , but not the contents collection calls .
This information was announced amid delegation of the European Parliament is preparing a series of meetings in Washington .
Officials of the Civil Liberties Committee of the European will also discuss with members of Congress to convey the concerns and gather more information .
Meanwhile , Japan's Kyodo news agency said the NSA in 2011 the Japanese government has offered to help the agency monitor the personal information transmitted over fiber optic lines to go to Japan Asia - Pacific .
According to the news agency , the NSA wanted to do this to spy on China, but Tokyo has refused for reasons of legal trouble and lack of manpower .
So far the White House has declined to comment on the alleged U.S. spy Spain , the El Mundo newspaper El Pais and posting .
60 million calls
According to the newspaper , the NSA was tracking 60 million calls , text messages and e-mail of Spanish citizens during the period from 10.12.2012 to 08.01.2013 .
The U.S. ambassador in Madrid was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Spain today to answer allegations earlier that the country's intelligence agencies to monitor citizens and politicians Spain .
The article appeared in the midst of the German media said the U.S. was wiretapping of Prime Minister Angela Merkel for more than a decade , and that the only active track ended a few months ago .
The time Germany had planned to send the security agency leaders to Washington this week to push for an investigation into allegations of spying .
On Friday last week , Britain's Guardian newspaper also revealed disturbing the NSA has monitored phone 35 world leaders , according to documents provided by Snowden .