{"id":9395,"date":"2020-03-13T15:54:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=9395"},"modified":"2020-06-10T12:28:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T12:28:37","slug":"crypto-ag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/crypto-ag\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto AG"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>Crypto AG was a Swiss company specializing in communications and information security. It was secretly jointly owned by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and West German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1970 until about 1993, with the CIA continuing as sole owner until about 2018. 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