BERLIN — WikiLeaks on Wednesday published a new list of German phone numbers that it says showed the US National Security Agency targeted phones belonging to Chancellor Angela Merkel's close aides and chancellery offices for surveillance.
Wednesday's publication came a week after WikiLeaks released a list of numbers it said showed the officials NSA targeted at various other German ministries and elsewhere. This rekindled concerns over US surveillance in Germany after reports two years ago that Merkel's own cellphone was targeted.
Merkel's chief of staff last week asked the US ambassador to a meeting and told him German law must be followed.
There was no immediate comment from the German government on the latest publication.
The list includes a cellphone number attributed to Ronald Pofalla, Merkel's chief of staff from 2009 to 2013; a landline number that appears to belong to the leader of Merkel's parliamentary caucus; various other connections at Merkel's office; and a cellphone number for the chancellor that WikiLeaks says was used until 2013.
It was unclear when the partially redacted list of 56 German phone numbers dates from, and it wasn't immediately possible to confirm the accuracy of that and other doc-uments released by Wiki-Leaks.
Those documents, Wiki-Leaks said, are NSA reports based on interceptions — including one from 2009 that details Merkel's views on the world financial crisis and another from 2011 summarizing advisers' views on plans for the eurozone's rescue fund.