Spiegel: The US Embassy in Athens Eavesdropped

By Maria Korologou 

According to the German news magazine Der Spiegel, the Embassy of the United States in Athens, Greece, is described as “a center of interceptions and bugging” in a document of the National Security Agency (NSA).
Special intelligence units, called Special Collection Services, staffed by US agents are present in 80 countries, 19 of whom are in Europe- among them Greece, Spiegel wrote.
That document appears to be included in the data which leaked by Snowden. Edward Snowden is an exiled American computer specialist and former CIA employee and NSA contractor who disclosed classified details of several top-secret United States and British government mass surveillance programs to the press. He is living in Russia under temporary political asylum and is considered a fugitive from justice by American authorities, who have charged him with espionage and theft of government property.
According to the Greek newspaper Ta Nea, apart from the special intelligence unit located in Athens, there is also equipment operating remotely without requiring the presence of personnel.
The equipment is installed on the upper floors or the roof of the embassy, located on Vasilissis Sofias Avenue in central Athens, and is covered by panels or constructions.
Such a construction made of white building materials is visible on the roof of the US Embassy in Athens, at the old building that sees at St Petrou Kokkali and ends at Vasilissis Sofias Avenue.