The NSA Behind Costa's Death? Intercept has published an article that will make a dent in Greece. …
Colonos was the neighborhood where Kostas Tsalikidis lived. He lived at No. 18 Euclid Street, an apartment directly below them parents of. 
He was born in Athens 38 years earlier than a middle-aged family. Talented in mathematics and physics from a young age, he received his Electrical Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens and specialized in the field of telecommunications. Later he received a degree in Computer Science in England. The last 11 years of his life worked for Vodafone-Panafon and was promoted to 2001 as the manager of the design network at the headquarters of the company (Halandri).
On 9 March of 2005, his brother Kostas, Panayiotis, passed through the apartment. She thought they could have a coffee before a business meeting she had scheduled that morning. But as he walked into the building, he found his mother, Georgia, climbing up the corridor shouting help.
“Get him down!” He said. "Get him down!"
Panagiotis had no idea why his mother was shouting until he went to his brother's apartment and saw Kostas hanging from a rope tied in pipes over his lintel door.
One day before his death, Kostas' boss at Vodafone had ordered the deactivation of a powerful and sophisticated malware that had been discovered in the company's systems. Malware was spying on strangers, targeting 100 top officials of the Greek government, including Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, his wife, Natasha, the Mayor of Athens, members of the Ministerial Council of Ministers, and journalists. Malware not only collected the top secrets of the country, but also more personal conversations.
The question was, who did it?
For a year, the wiretapping case remained secret, but when he finally saw it light of publicity, was seen as Greece's Watergate. The newspapers called it a "scandal of enormous proportions."
At the heart of the scandal was the dark side of 2004's summer Olympic Games that took place in Athens. While athletes competed for medals and millions of people watched, the spies were reportedly watching everything by violating the country's largest telecommunications systems.
A decade later, Kostas' death was reported as a result of the actions of a secret US operation in Greece.
Last February, the Greek authorities issued an international arrest warrant for a CIA official. The warrant went unnoticed by the American press, and it was an almost unprecedented energy from an allied country.
The officer, named William George Basil, is charged with espionage and espionage. Of course he had already left the country, and the US government, as usual, denies any involvement.
The Greek categories only touch the surface, and William George Basil can only be a guilty man. A survey by Intercept has revealed not only the role of the CIA but also of the NSA. The survey reveals that the entire business was conducted.
The research began with the production of a documentary about PBS NOVA. It is attacked via the internet and its projection is scheduled on October 14. It includes several interviews, but also exclusive access to high-grade NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
Intercept, along with the Kathimerini newspaper, asked more than two dozen people who are well aware of the telephone tapping case.
Many of those interviewed agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, apparently fearing criminal prosecution. While some questions remain, the data show that a huge illegal program eavesdropping led to the tragic death of Kostas.
"Kostas got engaged," says his brother Panagiotis. "They were planning to get married."
Panayiotis at first could not understand what had happened. Kostas was in good health and until recently at least he seemed to love his job at Vodafone.
"I thought there was no reason for him to kill himself," although he admitted that Kostas was under more pressure than usual.
"In the last year of his life, he was working very hard because Greece had taken over the 2004 Olympic Games," he told Intercept.
"And that means that for many hours at work he was planning to strengthen networks."
Kostas' workload increased dramatically in the months leading up to the Olympics. Ultimately, the technical infrastructure created by the Olympic Organizing Committee for staff and media contained more than 11.000 computers, 23.000 Appliances landlines, and 9.000 mobile phones.
At work, things started to change suddenly. Kostas told his brother they wanted to quit smoking. "He submitted his resignation to the company, but was not accepted," says Panagiotis. "He wanted to leave."
Together with Kostas Tsalikidis and his associates at Vodafone, overtime worked and members of the US National Security Service (NSA). But instead of arranging communications, he was more interested in surveillance.
According to previously released Snowden records, the NSA has a very long history of interceptions at the Olympic Games, both inside and outside the US.
2004, for the first time since the 11 9 / 2001 attacks of the XNUMX, the Olympic Games took place outside of the US, and therefore the difficulties for the information service would be much greater.
"Many factors make the Athens Olympics very different." The NSA should support the EYP, or the Greek National Intelligence Service.
This means that the NSA would gather information and give it to EYP.
According to a former US secret service officer, there has been very close cooperation between the NSA and the Greek government.
"The Greeks let the NSA monitor, OK, then you turn it off," the source said. “They entered the Athens communication system, with the knowledge and approval of the Greek government. This was done to help with safety during the Olympics. ”
The Olympics rolled smoothly - there were no serious terrorist threats. On 29 August, 16 days after the Games began, the closing ceremony was held at the Olympic Stadium in Athens. The ceremony was attended by 70.000 people.
Two weeks later, the Paralympic Games ended, and at that point, keeping their promise to the Greek government, NSA employees had to quietly decouple their hardware and erase their software from local telecommunication systems. They actually picked up their eavesdropping equipment, and boarded an airplane for Fort Meade.
The problem was, they did not. Agents left behind actively malware, which was targeted by top Greek officials instead of terrorists. According to the former US official, the NSA began to conduct this operation secretly without the permission or permission of the CIA chief at the Athens station, the US ambassador, and the Greek government.
"We had a huge problem after the Olympics," the source said.
"They [the NSA] said when the Olympics were over, they would disable that they had installed. And yet after the Olympics the Greeks discovered and crossed some anonymous signals, all going to the US Embassy. "
At that point, the source said, someone from the Greek government called Richard Pound Eric, head of the CIA station at the Embassy of Athens, and the person who is officially responsible for all information gathering operations in the country.
Pound had taken over in May of 2004, replacing Michael F. Walker, a former deputy director of the service in the Paramilitary and Special Activities Division in Athens.
Pound, according to the source, did not know anything about the business and that he was activated again, and called on the CIA headquarters to ask what was happening.
“What in the name of God is all this? ", The source said (Pound declined to speak to Intercept). Pound's boss called his counterpart to the NSA.
You can read all of Intercept's research from the link below
https://theintercept.com/2015/09/28/death-athens-rogue-nsa-operation/
