ABC News - 9/30/13, Alison Mutler/AP
People shout slogans on a rainy evening during a protest against plans to open Europe's biggest open-cast gold mine in Romania, in Bucharest on September 29. Bogdan Cristel / Reuters
Romania's domestic spy agency has been monitoring a planned Canadian gold mine for years, its chief acknowledged Monday, saying that some demonstrations against the project had been manipulated by people he called "eco-anarchists."
On Sunday, however, President Traian Basescu said the protests opposing the mine were genuine while rallies in support of the mine in Transylvania were "fabricated."
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