Singapore spies in Malaysia

Our supposed-to-be-trusted neighbor Singapore has also been spying on us over the past few decades, according to reports.

 

More top secret documents leaked byAmerican whistleblower Edward Snowden have revealed that Singapore had aided the '5-Eyes', the intelligence group behind a controversial spying activity in Malaysia.

Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad was quoted by Austalia's Fairfax news agency as saying that Singapore was a key 'third party' to provide access to Malaysia's communications channel to the five nations accused of tapping telephone lines and monitoring communications networks in Malaysia.

The daily published a map showing the US’s stranglehold on trans-Pacific communications channels through interception facilities on the US’ West coast, Hawaii and Guam.
It depicts the facilities, linked between Australia and Japan, tapping all cable traffic across the Pacific Ocean, with Singapore being part of the set up.
The Fairfax report said that since the 1970s, Malaysia and Indonesia have been targeted by Australian and Singaporean intelligence, since most of its telecommunications and Internet traffic goes through the island city-state.
It was reported last August that's Singaporean intelligence partnered with the Defence Signals Directorate, Australia’s electronic espionage agency, to tap the SEA-ME-WE-3 cable that runs from Japan, passing through Singapore, Djibouti, Suez and the Straits of Gibraltar to Northern Germany.
This was allegedly facilitated by Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel), the city-state's government-owned telecommunication giant.

Despite efforts by both governments, with Malaysia playing it most, to cement two-way ties, the republic which probably trusts only Israel and the United States has been betraying us.

I wonder if the Malaysian opposition is involved in leaking some secret documents to Singapore...

On SingTel's board to represent the government is none other than Peter Ong, the man who was once in charge of Singapore's national security and intelligence coordination, and who is currently the country's civil service chief.
The Fairfax report further claimed that Singtel has expanded intelligence and defence ties between Australia and Singapore in the last 15 years.
Last month, Snowden, a former Central Intellligence Agency officer who is at the centre of some 200,000 leaked documents showing America's espionage worldwide revealed that Washington runs a monitoring station in its Kuala Lumpur embassy to tap and monitor phone and network communications.
Germany magazine Der Spiegel published a map showing the existence of some 90 electronic surveillance facilities worldwide, including in American embassies in Jakarta, Bangkok, Phnom Penh, and Yangon.

I believe Wisma Putra has to go deep into this allegation. If there is a need, we should summon is high commissioner like how we did on the US and Australian embassies in Kuala Lumpur.

However, how much trust do we have on Singapore?

Personally, I don't think Singapore will be perturbed by our protest... or even if we cut off all ties with them! They don't take us as a friend... they never did!