It was announced in the German press on 16 August that the BfV (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz – the German Security Service) is to investigate its former head Hans-Georg Maaßen, 60, over his links to neo-Nazi groups. German police have been requested to hand over their files on the matter to …
Vladimir Sergienko, 52, has been accused of plotting with Moscow to delay the arrival of German tanks in Ukraine. He is a parliamentary aide for the far-Right AfD (Althernative for Germany) party for whom he works as a translator. He is a naturalised German citizen born in Ukraine. He has …
August Hanning and Gerhard Schindler, two former chiefs of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany’s Foreign Intelligence Service, have publicly criticised their former organisation by claiming that it needs to make considerable improvements if it is to “look Western allied services in the eye again.” They were wrting in Germany’s Bild newspaper. …
On 9 August a civil servant in Germany’s Defence Ministry has been arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia. He worked in procurement and has only been identified as “Thomas H.” He was arrested at his office in the Ministry. German invesitgators say that he approached the Russians rather than …
Wilhelm Wassmuss (1880-1931 or 1935). Most people have heard of T.E. Lawrence, the British military intelligence officer from the First World War, immortalised by the famous movie “Lawrence of Arabia”. But very few people know that there was another spy working in the same area at the same time who …