A recent report has revealed that the US and German intelligence services have for decades obtained the secret information of other governments, including Pakistan, through an encryption company. This operation is being described as the biggest operation of the century by any secret agency.
Major Aamir, a former officer of Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI, disagrees with this claim. He says that in the world of intelligence, any operation and strategy is not seen as a miracle. In his view, the German and American intelligence agencies did what intelligence agencies are supposed to do.
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According to details, Swiss company Crypto AG supplied 120 governments with decoding devices (i.e. devices used to hide encrypted messages) from the Cold War to the 2000s.
According to the report of the Washington Post, these countries did not know that the real secret owner of this company was the CIA, which was in collaboration with the West German intelligence agency.
What are the effects of such spying?
According to Major Aamir, this network only reveals one mechanism of how it all happened, but secret agencies are always active. Nothing more needs to be done about it, we just have to be more alert now.
Details of this highly sensitive information-stealing program shared by the US intelligence agency CIA and the German intelligence BND have been published by the US newspaper Washington Post, the German broadcaster ZDF, and the Swiss channel SRF.
According to reports, the spies of these two agencies installed a system in these devices through which they could steal the secret messages of these governments.
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When the BBC contacted former Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief Masood Sharif Khattak on the phone to get his opinion on this American and German spying, he answered in the form of a question, 'What? What you and I are doing on the phone is safe.'
According to Major Amir, it is the responsibility of each country's intelligence agencies to trace such networks. He says that Pakistan's secret agency also conducts such tactics and operations.
Referring to Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav and American spy Raymond Davis, he said that these were the successful operations that we conducted and foiled the foreign espionage network.
Is it possible to repair the damage caused by such incidents?
News outlets have obtained a historic internal CIA document that described the operation as the world's largest intelligence 'operation' of the past century.
According to Masood Khattak, the 'World of Intelligence' stands on similar tactics where everyone is behind each other. "There is no concept of good and bad in it."
According to Major Amir, in the last century, where Pakistan fought a war together with the CIA, both have spied on each other to trace their networks.
He says that America has a special interest in Pakistan's nuclear program and we have never had any doubts about how we have to ensure our security.
Masood Khattak says that it is not the era of horses that someone will go out of hiding and nothing will be known about him. This is the age of technology and even if one talks with the phone switched off, that conversation is not safe either. Referring to the innovation in the world of intelligence, he says that now everyone is walking around with a code machine (mobile phone) in hand.
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The Crypto Company Story
Boris Haglin, a Russian inventor, developed a portable encryption machine when he fled to the United States during the Nazi occupation of Norway in the 1940s.
This machine was so small that it could be handed over to soldiers on the battlefield. 140,000 American soldiers were given these machines.
But when World War II ended, Hagelin moved to Switzerland.
Their technology became so sophisticated that the US government worried that they would not be able to steal other governments' classified information. However, the best American code breaker,
William Friedman, persuaded Haglin to sell the latest machines only to countries that the US would allow.
The old machines, which the CIA had access to, were sold to other governments.
In the 1970s, the US and Germany bought crypto and began to control all elements of the operation, including staffing, technology design and sales direction.
Doubts in this regard have been expressed many times in the past, but this is the first time that evidence has come out.
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