Snowden files: How NZ and US agents plotted to spy on China
Five Eyes allies identified a diplomatic data link between Chinese offices as a target for hacking. Nicky Hager and Ryan Gallagher dissect the plan.
Category: Major investigations
Snowden files: How spy agency homed in on Groser’s rivals
A top secret document reveals New Zealand’s surveillance agency spied on candidates vying to be the director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a job sought by National Government minister Tim Groser.
Snowden files: GCSB had Solomons post, papers show
The GCSB not only spies on the Solomon Islands using its Waihopai satellite interception base – it also had a secret listening post inside the country, according to documents provided by the United States National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Revealed: The names NZ targeted using NSA’s XKeyscore system
Why did the GCSB intercept emails to and from Solomon Island officials? Nicky Hager and Ryan Gallagher report
Snowden revelations: NZ’s spy reach stretches across globe
New Zealand spies on Vietnam, China, India, Pakistan, South American nations and a range of other countries to help fill gaps in worldwide surveillance operations by the United States National Security Agency (NSA), documents show.
Snowden files: Inside Waihopai’s domes
NICKY HAGER AND RYAN GALLAGHER Last updated 07:47, March 8 2015 Sunday Star-Times The Waihopai intelligence base looks oddly alien and out of place: huge white “golf ball” radomes like a moon station and silent buildings within two fences of razor wire, all dropped in the midst of vineyards and dry hills in New Zealand’s […]
#snowdenNZ : The price of the Five Eyes club: Mass spying on friendly nations
Leaked Snowden files show most of GCSB’s targets are not security threats to New Zealand, as Government suggests…
New Zealand elections: dirty tricks helped John Key win another term
An orchestrated attack has painted Key’s political opponents as dodgy, untrustworthy or incompetent. This is not how democracy should work: Nicky Hager writes in The Guardian
Cyprus: the home of British/American Internet surveillance in the Middle East by Nicky Hager and Stefania Maurizi
British and US Internet surveillance in the Middle East and surrounding regions occurs from a secret base on the island of Cyprus…..
US spy agencies eavesdrop on Kiwi, Sunday Star-Times
The New Zealand military received help from US spy agencies to monitor the phone calls of Kiwi journalist Jon Stephenson and his associates while he was in Afghanistan reporting on the war.