Central Intelligence Agency

Oil Espionage: How the NSA and GCHQ Spied on OPEC

11-11-2013 • der Speigel

In January 2008, the NSA department in charge of energy issues reported it had managed, for the first time, to infiltrate OPEC in its entirety. OPEC, founded in 1960, has its main objective to control the global oil market, and to keep prices high.