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BND Aide Accused Of Spying For The U.S., Creates Significant German Response



“Fallout Continues from German/U.S. Double Agent” is the headline of Deutsche Welle (DW) Sunday, but the headline is an understatement, as Germany responds, across the political spectrum, to British puppet Obama’s unrelenting spying on Germany, treating it, in effect, as an enemy state. On July 2, German authorities arrested a 31-year-old employee of Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND, who reportedly sold 218 documents to an unnamed U.S. intelligence agency for 25,000 euros ($33,000), according to the German news agency DPA, which cited unnamed BND officials. This BND aide copied the documents to his flash drive. Of the documents sold, reportedly three pertain to a just-launched German parliamentary inquiry into NSA surveillance programs. The DW story says that the man offered his services to to the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, but that “the U.S., rather than notifying the BND, may have taken him up on his offer, one person said.”

On July 4, Deputy Foreign Minister Stephan Steinlein summoned U.S. Ambassador to Germany, John Emerson, to the German Foreign Ministry office to provide “swift clarification” of the what happened.

Speaking during a visit to Mongolia on Sunday, July 6, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said, “if the reports are true, then we’re not dealing with small issues.” Therefore, the United States must “collaborate [with Germany] since it has the capability to obtain the fastest possible information.” German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere told Bild newspaper, according to excerpts of its Monday July 7 edition, “I expect everyone to cooperate promptly… with quick and clear comments from the United States as well.” The President of Germany, Joachim Gauck, told a TV program, “If it really is the case that a service has been using an employee from our service in this way, we have to say, `This is enough.’ ”

“If the suspicion of espionage is confirmed, that would be an outrageous attack on our parliamentary freedom,” said Thomas Oppermann, the parliamentary leader of the SPD party. Stephan Mayer, the internal affairs spokesman for Angela Merkel’s own CDU, was compelled to state that if the spying report is true, “it would be a huge breach of trust in the transatlantic relationship.”

This reflects British-run Nerobama’s drive to undertake hostile actions against America’s allies, part of his drive for global nuclear war.

In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed NSA spying throughout Germany, including on German Chancellor Merkel personally, down to her own cell phone. Reuters reported July 6 that, “After the Snowden revelations, Berlin demanded Washington agree to a `no-spy agreement’ but the United States has been unwilling to make such a commitment.”

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