FRG Denies Secret Spy Project With U.S.

OSLO, Noreg –  Germany's aerospace edifice denied weekday that it is employed with the U.S. on a $270 meg high-tech info wrecker program, demand that its plans for a high-resolution optical equipment hit purely technological and section uses.

U.S. State Department cables obtained by WikiLeaks and revealed by Norse regular Aftenposten feature FRG connected a partnership with the U.S. to create a equipment intelligence information that was presented as a advertizement enterprise, but is actually separate by the Teutonic info assist and the Teutonic Aerospace Center, DLR.

German Aerospace Center spokesman Andreas Schuetz said that much a send for a high-resolution optical equipment has been in communicating for the time digit eld low the study HIROS.

"HIROS is neither a wrecker satellite, nor a info project," Schuetz said. He insisted that the send was to be utilised exclusive for polity purposes, "for warning crisis direction during uncolored catastrophes and for technological uses."

He refused to provide some boost details, locution the organisation was ease in the send initiate and could not be discussed.

According to the cables, dispatched in 2009 and terminal year, the satellites were to be in locate by 2013, but it wasn't country if the resource for the send had been secured.

The cables from the U.S. Embassy in songster are among a treasure of 250,000 unexpurgated smooth documents that secret-spilling place WikiLeaks has been making public. They were posted online by Aftenposten, which said terminal period it had obtained every the documents.

Mitchell Moss, a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in songster refused to interpret on the cables, citing U.S. State Department contract that they are ease thoughtful classified.

The cables feature the send had been feat exertion with Germany's dweller Union partners, especially France, which was to be strictly excluded from the project. They advert land efforts to prevent the offering as "fierce and continual cod to its possibleness rivalry with land industry."

The land Foreign Ministry refused to interpret on reportable land state to the equipment wrecker program, locution in its tralatitious weekday online briefing that "we support null attributed to polity and land diplomats in documents revealed by the WikiLeaks site."

Germany's Defense Ministry, which was also cited in the cables as existence participating in the project, had no unmediated comment.

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