[PDF file]: […] citizens and legislators were appalled to learn that the NSA was surveilling German communications and had even targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel’s smartphone. At the same time, the BND, Germany’s premier intelligence agency, had collaborated with the NSA in numerous operations . . . .’ (p. 330) Earlier, in his discussion of Section 702 of […]
[PDF file]: […] enemy is my friend’. It was relatively unshocking, then, to learn that SS-chief Heinrich Himmler’s daughter, Gudrun Burwitz (an unrepentant Nazi), had worked for the West German BND (in a relatively minor administrative role) for two years between 1961 and 1963.45 41 or 42 See or 43 See the section ‘All is forgiven (pp. […]
[…] and its complex of groups. Amongst Cercle intelligence contacts are former operatives from the American CIA, DIA and INR, Britain’s MI5, MI6 and IRD, France’s SDECE, Germany’s BND, BfV and MAD, Holland’s BVD, Belgium’s Sûreté de l’Etat, SDRA and PIO, apartheid South Africa’s BOSS, and the Swiss and Saudi intelligence services. Politically, the Cercle […]
[…] and English speaking countries. They were mixed in with twelve current or past directors or senior staff of Five Eyes intelligence and security agencies, including the German BND, France’s DGSE, Sweden’s sigint agency FRA, Australia’s ASIO and ASIS, Canada’s CSIS and a former Director and a former Director of Intelligence of the CIA, as […]
