France’s President Francois Hollande will convene a defence council meeting over reports quoting documents leaked by WikiLeaks claiming that the US wiretapped French leaders.

“The president has decided to hold a defence council meeting Wednesday morning at 9am to evaluate the nature of the information published by the press on Tuesday evening and to draw useful conclusions,” an aide told AFP.

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According to WikiLeaks files, the US wiretapped Hollande and France’s last two presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy.

The spying spanned 2006 to 2012, French newspaper Liberation and the Mediapart website said, quoting the documents classed as “Top Secret” which include five reports from the US National Security Agency based on intercepted communications.