Not only did the NSA spy on the UN, but Hillary Clinton instructed State Department employees to spy on the UN. Here's an article from Der Spiegel from 2009 that I stumbled upon:<p><a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/diplomats-or-spooks-how-us-diplomats-were-told-to-spy-on-un-and-ban-ki-moon-a-731747.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/diplomats-or-spook...</a><p>And this spying by the State Department may have provided the NSA with the information they needed to do their own spying:<p><i>"The State Department was also particularly interested in the UN's internal communications facilities. In her wish list, Clinton wanted to find out everything possible about the organization's telecommunications infrastructure and also extensive information on "current technical specifications, physical layout, and planned upgrades to telecommunications infrastructure and information systems, networks, and technologies used by top officials and their support staffs." The intention seems clear: This information would make it easier for the National Security Agency, the US intelligence agency responsible for wiretapping of phones and interception of electronic communications, to easily attack telephone, computer and e-mail accounts."</i><p>This information came from the diplomatic cables leaked to WikiLeaks by Bradley Manning.