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The German Parliamentary Committee investigation of the NSA spying scandal (official title: 1.Untersuchungsausschuss „NSA“) was started on March 20, 2014, by the German Parliament in order to investigate the extent and background of foreign secret services spying in Germany in the light of the Global surveillance disclosures (2013–present).
Brandt and Guillaume, 1974. The Guillaume affair (German: Guillaume-Affäre) was an espionage scandal in Germany during the Cold War.The scandal revolved around the exposure of an East German spy within the West German government and had far-reaching political repercussions in Germany, the most prominent being the resignation of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt in 1974.
In 1974, West German authorities discovered that Guillaume was spying for the East German government. The resulting scandal, the Guillaume Affair, led to Brandt's resigning the chancellorship. On 15 December 1975, Guillaume was sentenced to 13 years in prison for treason; his wife Christel, to eight years. [1] In 1981, Guillaume was returned to ...
German officials are so worried about U.S. spying, they're apparently going back to typewriters. Patrick Sensburg is Germany's head investigator on CIA and NSA spying. He told a German news ...
Three people in Germany have been arrested under suspicion of spying for China, while two people have been charged in the United Kingdom for espionage offenses.
An aide to a member of the European Parliament for the far-right Alternative for Germany has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of "especially severe" espionage for China, the latest in a spate ...
The spying program to monitor the German political and business elite is said to have begun as early as 1998. [1] Later, the German NSA investigative committee was also spied on by the US when an BND employee, who had been spying for the CIA since 2012, handed over secret documents of the investigative committee to the Americans.
The suspects, whose names were listed as Herwig F., Ina F., and Thomas R., due to German privacy laws, were arrested in the German cities Düsseldorf and Bad Homburg under suspicion of having ...