British and United States spy agencies targeted the office of an Israeli prime minister, the heads of international aid organizations and a European Union official who oversees antitrust issues involving U.S. technology firms, according to secret documents.
The targets were among more than 1,000 listed in documents leaked to journalists by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
Although the NSA's past targeting of foreign heads of state has been reported on, the documents show a broad spectrum of interests harbored by the NSA and its British sister agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), in more than 60 countries, according to reports in the Guardian, The New York Times and Der Spiegel posted online Friday.