Europol has been providing data from the European SWIFT financial transaction system to the US Department of the Treasury since 2009. Official reports to US Congress reveal copies of the data were then sent to the US Central Intelligence Agency from 2016. The CIA published documents on the data sets at the request of US Senators, stating that it used the data to search for terrorists and other purposes, which are prohibited under the agreement.
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