German spies haven’t enjoyed the best reputation among Western peers. The arrest this week of the country’s one-time intelligence chief on suspicion of treason is unlikely to help matters.
In a shock to the security establishment, August Hanning, an 80-year-old former president of Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, was taken into custody at his home north of Münster early Tuesday. Prosecutors accuse him of arranging access to some 2,000 highly classified BND documents and peddling the information for his consultant work, including in at least one case with a foreign service.
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