An operation run by GCHQ, the British intelligence and security organisation, used interception warrants to monitor phones owned by individuals linked to the plot, according to the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation.
Their agents’ analyses resulted in the identification of a cell that was close to carrying out their plan, it added.
GCHQ also provided support to both MI5 and European partners and helped to follow up 1,600 international leads, in the form of telephone numbers, email addresses and other identifiers, in the days following the Paris attacks, according to the report.
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An operation run by GCHQ, the British intelligence and security organisation, used interception warrants to monitor phones owned by individuals linked to the plot, according to the Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation.
Their agents’ analyses resulted in the identification of a cell that was close to carrying out their plan, it added.
GCHQ also provided support to both MI5 and European partners and helped to follow up 1,600 international leads, in the form of telephone numbers, email addresses and other identifiers, in the days following the Paris attacks, according to the report.
Powers enabling the mass interception of communications were also used to help a ground operations in Afghanistan.
“The use of intelligence gained through bulk interception as a basis for urgent action was illustrated starkly in the case of a kidnapping in Afghanistan,” the report said.
Read more at Independent
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