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Cell Phone Interceptions in Greece, Includes Prime Minister

Danny Burstein (dannyb@panix.com)
Fri, 3 Feb 2006 22:12:42 -0500

" The mobile phones of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and many other
leading Greek officials were tapped for around a year, the government
revealed yesterday while admitting that it had no way of finding out
who had been eavesdropping on the conversations.

" In a joint press conference lasting three hours, Public Order
Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis, Justice Minister Anastassis Papaligouras
and government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos said that some 100
cellphones had been tapped from just before the Athens Olympics in
August 2004 to March of last year.

" 'It was an unknown individual or individuals who used high
technology,' said Roussopoulos, who refused to say whether the people
listening in on the calls were working for foreign agencies. . .

" The software allowed calls to and from the numbers being tapped to
be monitored by other cell phones, from which conversations could be
recorded.

rest at:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4Dcgi/4Dcgi/_w_articles_politics_2583625100003_03/02/2006_65959

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