German intelligence service spied systematically government agencies and diplomatic missions of friendly countries, including the Greek embassy in Berlin, according to an article published today by Der Spiegel.

BND spied on the United States Department of the Interior and the interior ministries of EU member states including Poland, Austria, Denmark and Croatia, communications lines belonging to US diplomatic outposts in Brussels and the United Nations in New York.

The list even included the US State Department’s hotline for travel warnings, the United Nations in New York and the US Treasury in Washington, D.C. and non-governmental organizations, such as Care International, Oxfam and the Red Cross in Geneva.

“In Germany, the BND’s own selector lists included numerous foreign embassies and consulates. The e-mail addresses, telephone numbers and fax numbers of the diplomatic representations of the United States, France, Great Britain, Sweden, Portugal, Greece, Spain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and even the Vatican were all monitored in this way,” says the German magazine clarifying that diplomatic facilities are not covered under the Article 10 of Germany’s constitution, which protects German telecommunications participants from such surveillance.