Federal News Agency

Short Info

Names:	Bundesnachrichtendienst
Founded:	April 1, 1956
Released:	-
Regions of activity:	worldwide
Aims:	Information serving for the German government to recognize and react on security-relevant developments and situations all over the world

History

The Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal News Agency) is the only foreign countries intelligence agency of Germany, responsible for the civil and military enlightenment of the foreign countries. It had been established on April 1, 1956. The “Organization Gehlen”, founded in 1946 and working for US-American authorities in the field of military enlightenment of Eastern Europe, had been transformed to the Bundesnachrichtendienst after an order of the German Federal Chancellor Authority. Gehlen had been the first President of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) and remained in office until April 30, 1968. Dr. August Hanning is the 9^th President, in office since December 17, 1998. Currently, the Bundesnachrichtendienst employs some 5.700 workers in Germany and world-wide. He has two official locations: Pullach near Munich and Berlin. Updated plans say that the Department 3 (Evaluation) will be completely moved to Berlin, the first steps had been taken in Summer of 2001. The Federal News Agency collects information world-wide having exterior- and security-political relevance for the Federal Republic of Germany and it evaluates the information. The BND serves as the government’s Early-Alert-System for foreign developments. In contrast to most intelligence agencies, the BND is not allowed to use the following measures:

Political influencing of other countries
Misinformation campaigns
Sabotage
Rappings

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Media

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It’s Monday morning, you’re sitting at your desk without doing anything. You merely check the mail, concerning different inquiries to authorities. Since almost a year this spot is your place of work, and in a few weeks you’ll celebrate this jubilee with your colleagues. Shortly you remember how you did your final exams the year before. Originally, you didn’t want to become a lawyer, because the dry stuff made you weary. But just after you decided to subscribe for an economic course, there was that deciding scene in your life. During your studies and even in the recent period you neither had time nor leisure to re-concern with that event. However the years passed, and you had to solve the small problem until it developed to a huge scandal. Now, when you remembered the event itself, you could also memorize every very small detail. "Everything started with my grandfather’s death. He lived for quite a few years alone in his house in North Dakota, in a village near Bismarck. Bismarck, how this fits!", you think. Your grandfather has been at the army lifelong, during World War II he served in Germany. "Bismarck", you think again, and then you remember those strange documents you found after his death at him ...

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Why did your grandfather do it you think