Governments the world over trusted Crypto AG to … A shadowy Swiss encryption company secretly controlled by the CIA was ... emerged this week from reports which cited a classified CIA history of the spy project.

And the Central Intelligence Agency had built back doors into the encryption methods so it could easily decode messages and spy on foreign governments’ most sensitive communications. Crypto AG was born in 1952 and was dissolved in 2018.; During all this time, the entity was actually controlled by the CIA and the BND, its German counterpart. When confronted with evidence that Crypto had been owned by the CIA and BND, Linde looked visibly shaken, and said that during negotiations he never learned the identities of the company… Crypto AG : la CIA et la NSA vendaient du chiffrement “troué” au monde entier depuis 50 ans.
Greg Miller of The Washington Post reveals the hidden history of Crypto AG, a Swiss firm that sold encryption technology to 120 countries — but was secretly owned by the CIA for decades. Par Corentin Bechade (@corentinbechade) Publié le 12/02/20 à 12h24 Partager : Commenter (6) 6.

But what none of its customers ever knew was that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence.

But the Washington Post made the stunning revelation in early Feb 2020 that the information security company was secretly owned by the CIA.

These spy agencies rigged the company’s devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages. CIA Secretly Owned Encryption Company February 11, 2020 at 8:04 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment Washington Post : “The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build code-making machines for U.S. troops during World War II.

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.