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Doctors of the World: how we discovered GCHQ was spying on us

Why do intelligence agencies think it's acceptable to identify our humanitarian doctors, nurses and midwives as a threat to national security?

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A Médecins du Monde operation in Niger. Doctors of the World UK/Martin Courcier. All rights reserved.
A Médecins du Monde operation in Niger. Doctors of the World UK/Martin Courcier. All rights reserved.

A Médecins du Monde operation in Niger. Doctors of the World UK/Martin Courcier. All rights reserved.

I was in a Brick Lane restaurant on our Christmas work night out when I received the email from someone purporting to be a Guardian investigative journalist.

“We’re working on a story which suggests your organisation may have been the victim of surveillance by an intelligence agency....”