〔米・メディア ≪インターセプト≫が、スノーデン文書の日本関係分を暴露報道 ① 〕 ◆ 米国家安全保障局（ＮＳＡ）、日本政府と一方で連携し、利用しながら、他方、自国利益を優先！ ◎ ２００７年５月、アラスカのアンカレジのホテルで開かれた国際捕鯨委員会総会で暗躍！ ＮＳＡと連携するニュージーランド諜報機関が、日本の代表団を盗聴 / ４日間の総会会期中の早朝７時、ホテルから車で２０分のオペレーションセンターから盗聴結果をピックアップ、ホテルの秘密会合で結果をシャア / 日本側の工作を事前察知しつぶす！

　◆　参考　ＮＨＫ報道　スノーデン文書の中に日本情報 ネットメディアが公開
　（２４日付け）　⇒　　http://app.cocolog-nifty.com/t/app/weblog/post?blog_id=153575

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　★　写真はインターセプトの記事より。ＮＳＡがニュージーランド諜報機関を使って、対日工作を進めた、アラスカのホテルでの、国際捕鯨委総会の模様。

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〔★は大沼〕 ◎　インターセンプト　Japan Made Secret Deals With the NSA That Expanded Global Surveillance
　（２４日付け）⇒　https://theintercept.com/2017/04/24/japans-secret-deals-with-the-nsa-that-expand-global-surveillance/

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　The NSA’s covert eavesdropping operations give it an insight into the Japanese government’s private negotiations and dealmaking. As was the case in late May 2007, during a secret meeting at the luxury Hotel Captain Cook in downtown Anchorage, Alaska.

　The 59th annual gathering of the International Whaling Commission was being held in the hotel — and Japan was lobbying to end a moratorium preventing countries from hunting whales for commercial purposes. U.S. officials supported maintaining the moratorium and called in the NSA to help spy on Japan’s representatives ahead of a crucial vote. The agency worked with its New Zealand counterparts to conduct the surveillance. “New Zealand had the target access, and collected and provided insightful SIGINT that laid out the lobbying efforts of the Japanese and the response of countries whose votes were so coveted,” noted an NSA document from July 2007, which outlined the operation.

　One morning into the four-day gathering, at 7 a.m., an NSA employee arrived in a taxi at the agency’s Alaska Mission Operations Center, a 20-minute drive from the hotel. She collected printed copies of the intelligence that had been gathered from the Japanese communications. She then returned to the hotel with the information stored in a locked bag, and brought it to a private conference room in the hotel. There, the material was shared with two U.S. delegates from the Department of Commerce, two officials from the State Department, two representatives from New Zealand, and one from Australia. The officials read the material in silence, pointing and nodding while they studied it.

　The 77-member commission voted at the meeting to allow aboriginal whaling for indigenous people in the U.S., Russia, and Greenland. Japan put forward a proposal that it should be permitted to hunt minke whales for similar reasons, claiming that doing so has been part of its culture for thousands of years. But it failed in its efforts; at the end of proceedings in Anchorage, the moratorium stood and Japan was not granted any special exemptions.

　Japan’s representatives were furious and threatened to quit the commission altogether. “This hypocrisy leads us to seriously question the nature by which Japan will continue participating in this forum,” complained Joji Morishita, Japan’s deputy whaling commissioner. As far as NSA was concerned, however, it was a job well done. Whatever intelligence the agency had gathered during the meetings — the specifics of which are not revealed in the document — it had apparently helped sway the vote and scupper Japan’s plans. “Was the outcome worth the effort? The Australian, New Zealand, and American delegates would all say ‘yes,’” noted one agency employee who was involved in the covert mission. “I believe the whales would concur.”