US bugged EU offices, computer networks

The United States bugged European Union offices and gained access to EU internal computer networks, according to secret documents cited in a German magazine on Saturday, the latest in a series of exposures of alleged US spy programmes. Der Spiegel cited from a September 2010 "top secret" document of the US National Security Agency (NSA) which it said fugitive former NSA contractor Edward Snowden had taken with him and which the weekly''s journalists had seen in part.
The document outlines how the NSA bugged offices and spied on EU internal computer networks in Washington and at the United Nations, not only listening to conversations and phone calls but also gaining access to documents and emails. The document explicitly called the EU a "target". According to Der Spiegel, the NSA also targeted telecommunications at the Justus Lipsius building in Brussels, that groups EU national governments, by calling a remote maintenance unit.