U.S. and German intelligence agencies for decades obtained foreign secrets through rigged encryption devices sold to more than 120 countries including their allies via a Swiss company they secretly owned, the two countries' media said Tuesday.The Central Intelligence Agency and the German federal intelligence service BND had since around 1970 jointly owned and operated the Swiss firm Crypto AG to break codes that countries used to send encrypted messages, according to a joint reporting project by The Washington Post and German public broadcaster ZDF.At times, including in the 1980s, Crypto …READ FULL ARTICLE
