Schroeder was added to the NSA espionage targets list as number 388 by 2002, Munich daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and NDR revealed in their reports on Tuesday.
Media quoted unnamed US government officials and "NSA insiders” who saw Snowden documents.
Schroeder told Sueddeutsche Zeitung that he was not surprised by the report.
Der Spiegel previously revealed that incumbent Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone has been on an NSA target list since 2002 and is code-named “GE Chancellor Merkel.”
In the NSA's Special Collection Service (SCS) document cited by the magazine in October 2013, the agency said it has a "not legally registered spying branch" in the US embassy in Berlin. It also warned that its exposure would lead to “grave damage for the relations of the United States to another government.”
Using the spying branch, NSA and CIA staff tapped communications in Berlin's government district with high-tech surveillance.
According to a secret document from 2010, such branches exist in about 80 locations around the world, including Paris, Madrid, Rome, Prague, Geneva, and Frankfurt.
source: RT
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