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AP. 19 March 2003. Listening devices found in EU offices used by France, Germany, Britain, others. BRUSSELS -- Electronic bugging devices were found in offices used by several countries, including France and Germany, in a building where a European Union summit will open Thursday, EU officials said. The EU is investigating the bugging in a headquarters building but does not yet know who was behind it, EU spokesman Dominique-George Marro said Wednesday. EU diplomats said listening devices were found in offices used by France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Britain and Austria. They were discovered Feb. 28 during regular security sweeps by EU security services. The French newspaper Le Figaro broke the story Wednesday, saying Belgian police identified the bugs as American. The bugs had not been announced because investigators thought they had a better chance of catching the culprits if the find was kept secret. In Paris, a spokesman for President Jacques Chirac's UMP party said he was "surprised, very astonished and profoundly shocked" by the discovery. "Everything concerning illegal devices, everything concerning the surveillance of friendly countries ... is a pure and real scandal," Francois Baroin said. Georg Possanner, a spokesman for the Austrian delegation, was quoted by the Austrian Press Agency as saying the bugging was a "totally professional work." Leaders of the 15 EU nations are scheduled to meet Thursday and Friday at the building for their annual spring summit, during which they also are expected to discuss the Iraqi crisis. Two years ago, the European Parliament investigated reports that a U.S.-led global spy network dubbed "Echelon" allegedly snooped on Europe's business community. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ProletarianNews http://www.utopia2000.org --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bdn7KI.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/create/index2.html ==^================================================================
