There's been public claims about it, and honestly thinking that they wouldnt do it once they have the power to seems naive? https://www.zdnet.com/article/thatc

There's been public claims about it, and honestly thinking that they wouldnt do it once they have the power to seems naive? https://www.zdnet.com/article/thatcher-ordered-echelon-surveillance-when-pm/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/thatcher-ordered-echelon-surve... > Ex-spy Mike Frost told the CBS 60 Minutes programme that Thatcher had ordered surveillance on two cabinet colleagues according to excerpts released on Thursday. The allegation comes in the same week that a European Parliament report said Echelon, a surveillance system run by the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, was used for industrial espionage.