US espionage chiefs on Tuesday said reports that American spies agencies snooped on millions of Europeans were "completely false" in a dramatic twist to a transatlantic surveillance row.

General Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency, said that in many cases European spy agencies had turned over phone call records and shared them with US intelligence.

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