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US spied on Russian President Medvedev at 2009 G20 summit

17 June 2013 08:38 (UTC +04:00)

The report indicates that Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, an organization analogous to the NSA, set up internet cafes at the 2009 London Group of 20 conference with the purpose of reading the emails of those attendees who used them, among other spy tactics. Also revealed were documents showing that the NSA was also actively monitoring London G20 attendees, specifically then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.

The Guardian reports it had seen classified documents that detailed secret monitoring by British intelligence of officials at the April 2009 leaders summit and a finance ministers' meeting in September of that year and suggested it had been sanctioned at a senior level by the government of former prime minister Gordon Brown. The monitoring included tapped Blackberry correspondences, both email and voice. In its internet cafes, GCHQ reportedly placed keyloggers in the computers in order to gain ‘sustained intelligence options against them even after conference has finished.’ The surveillance and intelligence collection appeared to have been aimed at getting an edge in the meetings, against targets that included South Africa and Turkey, the report said.