Sweden: Tapping Your Comms for the US Since 1954

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http://www.svt.se/ug/read-the-snowden-documents-from-the-nsa

Here Uppdrag granskning [Mission: Investigation] the documents leaked
by Edwards Snowden and retrieved from Glenn Greenwald that are the
basis for the report about Sweden's collaboration with the NSA and the
GCHQ.

In an internal, top-secret document dated 18 April this year, the NSA
summarises its relations with Sweden. The document states that since
1954 Sweden has been a part of an intelligence collaboration with what
is often called “The Five Eyes”, UKUSA, which refers to the US, UK,
Canada, Australia and New Zealand. This is despite the fact that
Sweden was officially neutral, an image that has been maintained
outwardly for decades by multiple governments of different political
persuasions. The document also states that the UKUSA contract was
discontinued in 2004 and replaced with bilateral agreements for
signals intelligence and wiretapping. As of 2011, the Swedish FRA
provides its American partner with extensive access to data from its
cable collection.