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Merkel envoys at White House to discuss US-German intel. cooperation

By REUTERS

OCTOBER 30, 2013 16:10

WASHINGTON - A German delegation is visiting the White House on Wednesday to discuss ways to intensify US-German intelligence sharing after reports that the US National Security Agency monitored German Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone.

President Barack Obama is under pressure to reassure allies a week after reports surfaced about the scope and scale of US intelligence gathering.

German's national security adviser, Christoph Heusgen, and the German chancellery intelligence coordinator, Guenter Heiss, are to meet White House national security adviser Susan Rice and Obama's homeland security adviser Lisa Monaco.

US national intelligence director James Clapper and the deputy director of the National Security Agency, Chris Inglis will also participate.

Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said the meeting grew out of Obama's telephone conversation last week with Merkel. In that conversation, Obama told Merkel the United States is not now and will not in the future monitor her mobile phone.

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