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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.
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“).
A similar scandal hit Britain this week as police charged two men with spying for China, including one reported to have worked as a researcher in Britain's parliament for a prominent lawmaker in ...
On 20 January 1898, after an anti-Zola speech by rightist politician Albert de Mun at the Chamber of Deputies, the chamber voted 312–22 to prosecute Zola. [140] On 23 January 1898 Clemenceau , in the name of a "peaceful revolt of the French spirit", picked up the term "intellectuals" and used it in L'Aurore , but in a positive sense.
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.
When the Soviet KGB suspected an East German army intelligence officer, a lieutenant colonel and BND agent, of spying, the Soviets investigated and shadowed him. The BND was positioned and able to inject forged reports implying that the loose spy was actually the KGB investigator, who was then arrested by the Soviets and shipped off to Moscow. [14]
Conrad was arrested in 1988 by West German authorities and tried for high treason and espionage on behalf of the Hungarian and Czechoslovakian intelligence services. Conrad was convicted by the Koblenz State Appellate Court on June 6, 1990, of all charges and was sentenced to life imprisonment, fined 2 million marks ($1.18 million), and ordered to forfeit all proceeds from his activities.