ZURICH, Feb 11 — Switzerland is probing news reports that the US Central Intelligence Agency and West Germany’s spy service used a Swiss company’s encryption technology to covertly crack other nations’ top-secret messages, the Swiss defence ministry said today. The company, called...
Crypto AG is said to have sold code-making equipment to dozens of countries. — Reuters pic
At the time, the company called reports that it was a secret asset of Western intelligence agencies “an unbelievable conspiracy theory,” according to a report in German magazine Focus detailing a 1994 book on the subject. Judge Niklaus Oberholzer is due to report back by the end of June, after which the Swiss cabinet will be briefed.
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