This undated extract from a GCHQ document describes progress in infiltrating a Flag Telecom cable through the NIGELLA access point – as the cable’s owner did not have a partnership with GCHQ, the agency classed this project as “computer network exploitation” (CNE), hacking its way in with Cable & Wireless’ assistance: see the Süddeutsche Zeitung […]

This undated screenshot from GCHQ’s internal GCWiki provides details of INCENSER, “a GERONTIC delivery from the NIGELLA access” – in other words, a supply of data arranged by Cable & Wireless from a rival company’s infrastructure: see the Süddeutsche Zeitung article Snowden-Leaks: How Vodafone-Subsidiary Cable & Wireless Aided GCHQ’s Spying Efforts, 25 November 2014. Download […]

These July 2009 documents provide a full list of the fibre-optic cables GCHQ had access to at that point, including details of location, bandwidth and corporate partners: see the Süddeutsche Zeitung article Snowden-Leaks: How Vodafone-Subsidiary Cable & Wireless Aided GCHQ’s Spying Efforts, 25 November 2014. […]

This NSA Special Source Operations slide from 25 April 2013 shows that GCHQ’s INCENSER access continued after Vodafone acquired corporate partner Cable & Wireless the previous year: see the Süddeutsche Zeitung article Snowden-Leaks: How Vodafone-Subsidiary Cable & Wireless Aided GCHQ’s Spying Efforts, 25 November 2014.