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Former BND Chief Blames Merkel for 'Massive Security Risk' With 300,000 Unidentified Migrants
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has long been criticised for her ill-fated open-door refugee policy. The fallout from which has resulted in bitter political infighting within the government and a surge in support for right-wing parties both in Germany and across Europe.
Dr. August Hanning, the former director of Germany’s foreign intelligence service (BND), told the Sunday Express on 15 September...
German Intelligence Warns of “Extremely Brutal” Nigerian Mafia in Germany as Invasion Continues
The German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) has warned that country’s government in a leaked secret document about the growth of “”extremely brutal Nigerian organized crime” sweeping through Germany following the mass and still ongoing nonwhite fake refugee invasion of that country.
According to the document, revealed by the Spiegel newspaper, the BND warned that the increased influx of...
Russian “Doomsday” Missile Ordered Activated Ahead Of US-EU Terror Strike
A sobering new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Minister of Defense (MoD) says that President Putin has ordered an immediate deployment to “combat status” of “all currently operational” RS-26 intercontinental ballistic missile systems ahead of what is described to be a “terror spectacular” Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) attack upon the European Union and/or United...
Germany Set to Cooperate With Assad, Set Up Intel Agency in Damascus
In a dramatic move, Germany is set to become the first western nation and NATO member to break ranks and begin cooperating with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and set up an intelligence agency branch in Damascus.
Although there has been no official announcement, anonymous sources quoted in the German Bild newspaper, confirmed that the federal government is keen to establish a branch of its Federal...
Germany says Ukraine downed MH17, NOT Russia
Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency (something similar to America’s CIA) says a local militia shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in eastern Ukraine in July, Der Spiegel reports. The BND is said to possess “ample evidence,” though none of it has been made public.
The statement was made on October 8, when Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) president Gerhard Schindler was holding...
Germany handed law-protected private data to NSA for years
Intelligence service BND failed to protect the private data of German citizens as it handed over internet data collected at a Frankfurt traffic hub to the US, German media report citing secret documents.
The documents cited by VDR and EDR television and the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which broke the news together, were obtained from the federal government during an ongoing parliamentary investigation...
Germany tapped John Kerry's phone, spied on Turkey for years
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency eavesdropped at least one telephone conversation of US Secretary of State John Kerry and spied on NATO ally Turkey since 2009, Der Spiegel newspaper revealed on Saturday.
Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) picked up the phone call “by accident” in 2013, the weekly newspaper reported in a pre-publication citing unnamed sources. Kerry was...
Germany expels CIA Berlin chief over NSA spying
German government has expelled the top US intelligence official in Berlin, amid undercover agent investigation.
“The representative of the US intelligence services at the embassy of the United States of America has been told to leave Germany,” German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement on Thursday.
According to Seibert the move was in response to two reported cases...
Berlin outraged by US's NSA spying
The arrest of a German intelligence employee for allegedly spying for the US has caused an uproar among German politicians. The country’s foreign minister has demanded an immediate clarification of the situation from Washington.
“If the reports are true, then we’re not talking about trifles,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on a visit to Mongolia, DPA reports. He added that prompt...
Germany admits it operates nationwide spy stations
Germany’s Foreign Intelligence Agency (BND), in an effort to come clean in these compromised post-Snowden times, has revealed that a number of mysterious facilities dotting Germany are in fact used as spy stations.
Strike one in the victory column for the conspiracy theorists.
After many years of denying it had any connection with organizations such as the Ionosphere Institute, and snubbing website...
German chancellor slams US, UK over spying
Countries spying on their allies sow distrust that could result in less, rather than more security, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned. She particularly referred to the surveillance and spying activities by the US and the UK.
“But does that make it right for our closest allies, like the United States or Britain, to access all imaginable data – arguing that it helps their own security...
US, Germany to negotiate anti-spying pact
Germany and the United States will start negotiations this month on an agreement not to spy on each other, a senior German official has said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff, Ronald Pofalla, said on Monday that such an agreement can set a framework for future activities of western spying agencies, the Associated Press reported.
Pofalla, who is responsible for coordinating the various...
Germany sends 'massive amounts' of phone, email data to NSA
Germany’s BND intelligence service sends “massive amounts” of intercepts to the NSA daily, according to a report based on Edward Snowden’s leaks. It suggests a tight relationship has been developed between the two agencies – which the BND claims is legal.
Documents leaked by former NSA contractor Snowden and obtained by Der Spiegel revealed that the 500 million pieces of phone and email...
German intelligence cooperated with NSA as Merkel denied knowledge
The entrance to the headquarters of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, the BND.
Der Spiegel magazine has revealed German intelligence operated one of NSA’s spying programs. Chancellor Angela Merkel had denied any previous knowledge of NSA’s tactics, adding that she first learned about them through the media.
Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND, along with the domestic intelligence...
Curveball doubts were shared with CIA, says ex-German foreign minister
Joschka Fischer at the launch of his Iraq war memoir, I Am Not Convinced, in Berlin.
Joschka Fischer accuses former CIA chief George Tenet over his knowledge of Iraqi defector’s sketchy background.
Germany’s former foreign minister Joschka Fischer has accused the former head of the CIA George Tenet of making implausible claims about the handling of the Curveball case by the US.
On Wednesday...