that no one seemed to notice.
(. . .) “This is the scariest building I’ve ever seen! WTF goes on inside??” the Oscar winner asked, alongside a photo of the towering concrete structure.
The building, based in the Financial District, is topped with vents, has almost no openings to the outside save for two strange sets of square windows and appears impervious to the outside world. The bizarre structure has sparked a flurry of conspiracy theories among Hanks’ many followers, with fans suggesting it looked like something from the pages of George Orwell’s 1984 or even a dragon’s eerie from Game of Thrones.
(. . .) But documents leaked by Edward Snowden, along with others gathered by The Intercept, suggest that it is an NSA surveillance base named Titanpointe that spies on phone calls, fax messages and internet data.
The building, which was developed under the name ‘Project X,’ opened in 1974 about 14 blocks north of Wall Street and houses an international ‘gateway switch,’ an AT&T employee told The Intercept. That switch is a major route by which international calls and data enter the US telecomms system – meaning that if someone has access to the data, they could spy on world communications. If that’s the case then it would be a vital location for the NSA’s controversial surveillance program, which has allegedly spied on at least 38 countries, including allies.
The program has reportedly also spied on communications to and from the UN, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Top-secret NSA documents indicate that the NSA has indeed set up a site, codenamed ‘Titanpointe,’ in the building, The Intercept said.
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