" The mobile phones of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis and many other leading Greek officials were tapped for around a year, the government revealed yesterday while admitting that it had no way of finding out who had been eavesdropping on the conversations.
" In a joint press conference lasting three hours, Public Order Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis, Justice Minister Anastassis Papaligouras and government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos said that some 100 cellphones had been tapped from just before the Athens Olympics in August 2004 to March of last year.
" 'It was an unknown individual or individuals who used high technology,' said Roussopoulos, who refused to say whether the people listening in on the calls were working for foreign agencies. . .
" The software allowed calls to and from the numbers being tapped to be monitored by other cell phones, from which conversations could be recorded.
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