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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.
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).
Far from permitting Nazis to practice free speech, the German government "shut down hundreds of Nazi newspapers—in a two-year period, they shut down 99 in Prussia alone," wrote Lukianoff.
Censorship was enforced through the requirement to have a government license to publish books or newspapers, and the mandatory use of an impressum on printed material to identify authors and publishers. However, the city-republics such as Frankfurt and Hamburg tended to have a free press, a rarity in 19th century Germany. [4]
BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday allegations that the aide to a prominent far-right politician had been spying for China were "very concerning" and urged more ...
Günter Guillaume (1 February 1927 – 10 April 1995) was an East German spy who gathered intelligence as an agent for East Germany's secret service, the Stasi, in West Germany. Guillaume became West German chancellor Willy Brandt's secretary, and his discovery as a spy in 1973 led to Brandt's downfall in the Guillaume affair.
BERLIN (AP) - German lawmakers probing the surveillance activities of the U.S. National Security Agency have uncovered a legal loophole that allows the country's foreign intelligence agency to spy ...
The BfV works with domestic and foreign intelligence services. In at least one case, the BfV has turned to US authorities for help in unmasking a US spy. The spy was from the NSA, who was spying on the German Parliamentary Committee investigation of the NSA spying scandal (1. Untersuchungsausschuss „NSA“).