Swiss encryption machine company Crypto AG was secretly owned by the US CIA and a West German spy agency at the height of the Cold War, according to explosive revelations in the Swiss and German media today. Although rumours had swirled for decades around Crypto AG and the backdooring of its products by the West, (especially the US’s National Security Agency), including careless remarks by former US prez Ronald Reagan, today’s publications by Swiss broadcaster SRF and German broadcaster ZDF confirm those old suspicions.

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