‘Intelligence coup of the century’: CIA secretly owned encryption firm used by other countries to communicate

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The CIA secretly owned a company that sold rigged encryption systems to other countries, allowing the agency to spy on more than 100 nations over several decades while generating millions in profit.

The agency’s relationship with the company, Crypto AG, was detailed by the Washington Post in an investigation published Tuesday.

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