FRA 'stopped political murder'

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

"Sweden’s National Defence Radio Establishment (Försvarets radioanstalt – FRA) prevented a political murder and 
revealed that Soviet mock attacks were in fact “prank flights”,
reports the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper.

FRA’s operations are guarded with extreme secrecy.
However, the agency has been under fire since the government passed a new controversial law allowing the agency to 
monitor cable-borne telecommunications and internet traffic which crosses Sweden’s borders.

Bugging can take place in the absence of criminal suspicions, which has upset many who also question the need for FRA.

But the agency’s surveillance helped stop an attack “with deadly results” against a person in Sweden, according to the 
agency’s director general, Ingvar Åkesson."
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More at
http://www.thelocal.se/13210/20080723/

Juha-Matti

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