“Philips helped spy on Turkey” | Financial

He adapted devices intended for NATO ally Turkey. Philips did this for the then BVD, the Domestic Security Service (now AIVD), and the American intelligence services. The Americans did not trust Turkey and a number of other NATO member states in the southern flank, it is said.

“At that time I looked at it differently than now,” says Jansen. “I did what the boss asked me and made what needed to be made.”

The cryptographer makes statements about Philips in the context of Cryptoleaks, this week’s series of international revelations about Operation Rubicon. Thanks to this “worldwide intelligence coup of the century”, the American NSA and the German Bundesnachrichtendienst were able to monitor more than a hundred countries for decades. The very secret evaluation reports of Operation Rubicon are in the hands of the Argos research platform.

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