| Author (Corporate) | Deutsche Welle |
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| Series Title | Article |
| Series Details | 04.07.14 |
| Publication Date | 04/07/2014 |
| Content Type | News |
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A member of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency was detained by German authorities on the 4 July 2014 for possibly spying for the US. The 31-year-old was suspected of giving a US spy agency information about a parliamentary inquiry of NSA activities. German-US relations were already under strain since revelations of mass surveillance not only on German citizens, but also on Chancellor Angela Merkel and other politicians made the news in 2013. On the 9 July 2014, prosecutors in Germany searched the home of a defence ministry employee suspected of spying for the US, in the second such case in a week. On the 10 July 2014 DW and other news sources reported that the German government had ordered the top CIA man in Germany to leave the country. The move came in response to the discovery that two US agents were working under cover in Germany's secret intelligence agency BND. In a tv interview broadcast on the 13 July 2014 Chancellor Merkel criticised the espionage against Germany, but she said security services would continue their collaboration with US spy agencies. |
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| Source Link | http://dw.de/p/1CVkn |
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| Countries / Regions | Europe, Germany |
