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Dropmire is asurveillance program by the United States'National Security Agency (NSA) aimed at surveillance of foreign embassies and diplomatic staff, including those ofNATO allies. The program's existence was revealed in June 2013 bywhistleblowerEdward Snowden inThe Guardian.[1] The report alleged that at least 38 foreignembassies were under surveillance, some of them as far back as 2007.[citation needed]
Earlier in June 2013,The Guardian had reported that the NSA spied on diplomats during the2009 G-20 London Summit, but no precise program name was revealed at the time.[2]
Diplomatic spying by the United States had been revealed as far back as 2010, when it was revealed that US agencies had spied on theSecretary-General of the United Nations,Ban Ki-moon – at the time, it was not known that this had been done as part of a systematic program.[3]
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