A former minister in charge of the country's spy agencies says it's utterly unacceptable the GCSB hosted a spy operation for a foreign power without telling the Government.
The Inspector General of Intelligence and Security has released a damning report which found the operation ran out of the Government Communications Security Bureau between 2013 and 2020 without any minister over that time knowing.
The current GCSB minister, Judith Collins, declined to be interviewed Friday morning, as did the GCSB.
Andrew Little was the minister in charge when it was finally revealed in 2020 that the operation had happened.
Little spoke to Ingrid Hipkiss.
