Colombias state intelligence agency spied on opposition campaign during 2014 elections
Source: Colombia Reports
written by Stephen Gill November 16, 2016
Colombia’s Prosecutor General is investigating mounting evidence of alleged government infiltration of the country’s opposition campaign during the 2014 presidential elections.
The Democratic Center‘s Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, who barely lost to President Juan Manuel Santos in those elections, has long been accused of spying on peace talks with Marxist FARC rebels.
However, the former candidate increasingly seems to have been spied on himself while being spoon-fed information by the National Intelligence Directorate (DNI), Colombia’s main intelligence agency.
The alleged State agent in question is Rafael Revert, a Spanish hacker who was hired by the opposition campaign as part of the “cyber attack” team against Santos.
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