Most embarrassing part -from an Ally perspective- is that the Germans asked us for help in identifying the mole. They were initially thinking the spy was Russian. It turns out he was an Obama-era U.S. spy.
GERMANY – A suspected double agent under arrest in Germany has been spying for the CIA for two years, German intelligence officials investigating the case now believe.
“All the evidence suggests that he was working for the Americans,” an unnamed senior security official has told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.
The country’s top security official has demanded a full American response to German investigations. “I expect everyone now to assist quickly in clearing up the accusations – and quick and clear statements, from the USA too,” Thomas de Maiziere, the Interior minister said.
Germany’s Foreign Ministry summoned the America ambassador on Friday but German authorities have confirmed only that a 31-year-old man is under arrest.
The first indications that investigators believe a confession by the arrested man is true. If the suspicions against him are confirmed, the case could cause grave damage to US-German relations.
The arrested man, who is severely disabled, worked in the Foreign Relations department of Germany’s BND intelligence service, where he had access to classified documents and information about agents abroad.
For the last two years, he has been sending documents to the Americans electronically once a week, according to Bild newspaper.
In a damning piece of evidence, investigators said they had found an encrypted communication programme hidden on his computer.
The hidden programme was disguised as a weather app, and activated by searching for a weather forecast for New York.
The arrested man was able to carry on most communications electronically, but met with an American contact in Austria on two or three occasions, when he received payments of €25,000 in cash.
Other reports said German intelligence asked their American counterparts for help unmasking their own mole – and the Americans remained silent. (read more)
The arrested man, who is severely disabled, worked in the Foreign Relations department of Germany’s BND intelligence service, where he had access to classified documents and information about agents abroad.For the last two years, he has been sending documents to the Americans electronically once a week, according to Bild newspaper.
In a damning piece of evidence, investigators said they had found an encrypted communication programme hidden on his computer.
The hidden programme was disguised as a weather app, and activated by searching for a weather forecast for New York.
The arrested man was able to carry on most communications electronically, but met with an American contact in Austria on two or three occasions, when he received payments of €25,000 in cash.
Other reports said German intelligence asked their American counterparts for help unmasking their own mole – and the Americans remained silent. (read more)
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