Wegmann,
Bodo. "German Intelligence Agencies: An Overview." Intelligence
Watch Report Quarterly 2, no. 1 (1995): 13-15.Materials arranged chronologically.
Wegmann,
Bodo. "German Intelligence Agencies: An Overview." Intelligence
Watch Report Quarterly 2, no. 1 (1995): 13-15.
This is a nuts and bolts look at the German intelligence community -- BND, AfV, BSI, AfNBw, and MAD. It includes addresses and telephone numbers for the offices.
Gedye,
Robin, and Christopher Lockwood. "Magazine Names Diplomat as MI6 Spy
Who Paid for Russian Secrets." Electronic Telegraph, 30 Jan.
1996. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
"Rosemary Sharpe,... until recently the first secretary at the British embassy in Berlin," was named by the German magazine Der Spiegel on 29 January 1996 "as the MI6 operative who bought information from German intelligence officials now under investigation on corruption-related charges.... It is understood that Miss Sharpe became involved in the 'left-overs' of a deal under which German intelligence set up a unit in 1991 to purchase sensitive Soviet military equipment from the departing army. Three of the members of the unit are alleged to have established a rogue operation in which they sold on material to American and British secret services. Everything from tanks to documents were spirited out of the barracks of the departing Soviet army in return for cash. It is stressed that none of the material related to nuclear weapons."
Boyes, Roger. "KGB Files to Reveal Fate of Lost Germans." Times (London), 4 Feb. 1999. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]
"The fate of tens of thousands of Germans who disappeared inside the Soviet Union" after World War II may be solved by the handover this week to the German Red Cross of KGB files containing the "names, addresses, death dates and the site of their graves" of more than 10,000 Germans.
Gedye,
Robin. "Spy Chief Resigns over Secrets Sale." Electronic Telegraph,
1 Mar. 1996. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
BND head Konrad Porzner resigned on 30 April 1996 "in protest at Chancellor Kohl's refusal to sack two senior officers over investigations into the sale of information to British and other foreign intelligence services."
Atkinson,
Rick. "German Spy Chief Quits in Dispute over Scandal: Case Involved
Sale of Russian Secrets to U.S." Washington Post, 1 Mar. 1996,
A20.
Shpiro, Shlomo. Guarding the Guard: Parliamentary Control of the Intelligence Services in Germany and Britain. Sankt Augustin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, 1997.
Judah,
Tim. "German Spies Accused of Arming Bosnian Muslims." Electronic
Telegraph, 20 Apr. 1997. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
The BND, the German espionage service, "is in turmoil following revelations that spy chiefs ran covert and illegal operations sending arms to Bosnia's Muslims and Croatia during the war in the former Yugoslavia."
Gimson,
Andrew. "Spy Book Backfires on Bonn 'Bunglers.'" Electronic
Telegraph, 15 Jul. 1997. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
A book by Udo Ulfkotte, a journalist with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, which was "designed to boost the standing of Germany's secret service has instead shown up its spies as a bunch of incompetents.... Ulfkotte ... was given unprecedented access to Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) files ... [b]ut far from enhancing the service's reputation, Mr Ulfkotte has confirmed its incompetence.... The book will be all the harder for the German authorities to deal with because it is written in a friendly and innocent tone."
Johnson, Loch K., and
Annette Freyberg. "Ambivalent Bedfellows: German-American Intelligence
Relations, 1969-1991." International Journal of Intelligence and
Counterintelligence 10, no. 2 (Summer 1997): 165-179.
This article is very general in nature, but correctly projects that U.S.-German intelligence cooperation is likely to continue into the future despite occasional disagreement on political and economic issues.
Cowell, Alan. "German Official Spied for Iraq in Gulf War." New York Times, 18 Nov. 1997, A8 (N).
A Foreign Ministry registry clerk was sentenced in May 1991 for providing "piles of secrets, including Western assessments of Iraq's missile strength," to Iraq. In the judgment of the German court, Jurgen Mohamed Gietler's "activities enabled Iraq's army to disguise some missile batteries so that it was able to fire missiles at Israel from sites that the United States and its allies believed they had destroyed."
Sharma,
Yojana. "Germany Liquidates Its Blundering Spy Service." Electronic
Telegraph, 26 Jul. 1998. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk]
German Chancellor Kohl's office has announced that "Volker Foertsch, long-time head of counter-intelligence within the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) spy service, is to be transferred to another job and his entire 500-strong department dissolved." This shake-up comes "after a series of gaffes and scandals that have harmed relations with its intelligence partners in London and Washington."
Boyes, Roger. "Former Spy Chief Vanishes on Way to Inquiry." Times
(London), 13 Jul. 1999. [http://www.the-times.co.uk]
Holger Pfahl, retired former head of Germany's counter-espionage service and deputy director of the BND, "has disappeared on his way back" to Germany where he was slated "to testify in a politically explosive corruption investigation." Pfahl was to return to Munich from Taiwan for "questioning on charges that he received a kickback for the sale of German armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia" while working for Daimler Chrysler after his retirement from government in 1992. "There is speculation that he has gone to ground in mainland China."
van der Meulen, Michael.
"German Air Force Signal Intelligence 1956: A Museum of COMINT and
SIGINT." Cryptologia 23, no. 3 (Jul. 1999): 240-256.
Abstract: "A survey of the development of the German Air Force Intelligence organization is given. Included is a description of the first public German Museum of Air Force Signal Intelligence located at the General von Seidel Kaserne (Garrison) at Trier-Euren."
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