The release risks renewing tensions between Germany and the United States a month after they sought to put a row over spying behind them, with U.S. President Barack Obama declaring in Bavaria that the two nations were “inseparable allies”.

“The people pertaining to several of the impacts on implies that surveillance…”

WikiLeaks adds that the long-term tapping of phone lines by the NSA allowed the United States to know how the German government planned to respond to the worldwide financial crisis and the Eurozone bank bailout.

As Wikileaks notes in the new drop, even a guarantee not to wiretap Merkel doesn’t mean her conversations wouldn’t be intercepted, since “the Chancellor cannot run the government by talking to herself”.

WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange said that sufficient proof is now available to warrant the reopening of a German investigation into the espionage.

In addition to the government of current Chancellor Angela Merkel, the US National Security Agency (NSA) also eavesdropped on the governments of predecessors Gerhard Schroeder and Helmut Kohl, report the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung and broadcasters NDR and WDR.

The targeted phone numbers included those for the cellphones of senior officials at the chancellery and included that of Ronald Pofalla, Merkel’s ex- chief of staff, WikiLeaks said.

WikiLeaks also published top secret NSA reports from 2009 and 2011 based on intercepts of Merkel’s calls, including discussions with aides and foreign leaders on the Greek debt crisis and Iran’s nuclear development.

Spying is a delicate problem in Germany due to the abuses of the Nazi and Communist eras.

American whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013 showed for the first time that Merkel’s private mobile phone had been on a NSA monitoring list.

The spying row has additionally been stirred by allegations that Merkel’s employees gave the German BND overseas intelligence agency a inexperienced mild to assist the NSA spy on European companies and officers.