NSA investigation: Germany arrests 'suspected US spy'

BBC News ^ | July 4, 2014

[Oldeconomybuyer]

An employee of Germany's intelligence agency has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the US, reports say.

The man is said to have been trying to gather details about a German parliamentary committee that is investigating claims of US espionage.

German media say the man arrested this week is a 31-year-old employee of the federal intelligence agency, known as the BND.

The German federal prosecutor's office confirmed the man's arrest, but gave no other details.

A spokesman for Ms Merkel said she had been informed of the arrest, as had the members of the nine-strong parliamentary committee investigating the activities of foreign intelligence agencies in Germany.

"The matter is serious, it is clear," spokesman Steffen Seibert told the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper,

Der Spiegel news magazine said the man was believed to have passed secret documents to a US contact in exchange for money.

However, one unnamed politician told Reuters news agency the suspect had offered his services to the US voluntarily.

[Henry Hnyellar]

“An employee of Germany’s intelligence agency has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the US, reports say.”

If true, the German would have been working for or run by the CIA or DIA, not NSA.

Anyone who thinks this sort of thing (wrt to Germany) is new is are naive or willfully ignorant. Obama is not trustworthy and his foreign policy is a disaster, but this sort of thing predates him.

[familyop]

"The American problem might be that the common German people see Putin much more as a friend than his US-colleagues. You guys are not the good ones anymore on our side of the big pond. There is a basic turnaround in the public opinion."

Political class volks in the U.S. have also been adoring Putin while hating Europe and the U.S.A. If you'd paid attention to most of the comments of the past few months on that issue here, at Free Republic, you would have seen it.

So, it appears that most political people in both the U.S.A. and Europe want Putin to be their leader. Our more influential political volks are spoiled and psychotic. Many of us know that, but many of us don't issue political speech.

[RadiationRomeo]

I’m guessing we got him to spy for us because the US learned something very embarassing about him thru NSA monitering. Standard blackmail technique.

Germany is going to get even somehow.

[familyop]

See the armored personnel carriers behind the link. Those have been issued to local police agencies throughout America including many small towns.

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