Brazil Officials’ Phones Monitored by U.S., WikiLeaks Says
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The U.S. National Security Agency monitored the phone numbers of top Brazilian officials, WikiLeaks said, less than a week after President Dilma Rousseff visited the U.S. to mend relations derailed by earlier spying accusations.
The 29 phone numbers selected for “intensive interception” included those of Rousseff aides, members of Brazil’s finance ministry, diplomats and even the satellite phone on Rousseff’s private jet, WikiLeaks said in a report titled “Bugging Brazil” posted on Saturday. WikiLeaks didn’t say when the phones were monitored, and the officials’ listed positions correspond to posts held during Rousseff’s first term, which ended in 2014.