The President’s Daily Brief (PDB) is a daily summary of high-level, all-source information and analysis on national security issues produced for the president and key cabinet members and advisors. The published materials had been submitted in 2015 as part of a German parliamentary inquiry into the surveillance activities of the BND and its cooperation with the US National Security Agency. The following persons have held this office since 1956: The president of the BND is a federal Beamter paid according to BBesO order B, B9,[53] which is in payment the equivalent of a lieutenant general. Are you curious about the IC? We Watch Out For You. [50] The agency's total number of employees, in Germany and other countries, was approximately 6,500.[51]. The list was classified and locked in a safe after the Director of the Finnish Security Intelligence Service, Seppo Tiitinen, and the President of Finland, Mauno Koivisto, determined that it was based on vague hints instead of hard evidence. Powell supported his case with information received from the BND, instead of Mr. Hans Blix and the IAEA. The President of the BND has three deputies: one Vice President, one Vice President for Military Affairs (Since December 2003), and one Vice President for Central Functions and Modernization (Possibly Since 2013). LEGAL SUPPORT SERVICES • SME Legal Personnel • Litigation and Trials Support Our ambassador in Tel Aviv assured me only yesterday that everything was normal." The BND headquarters is located in central Berlin and is the world's largest intelligence headquarters. While much of our work is classified, we regularly release information to the public. ... Gehlen was never a good clandestine operator, nor was he a particularly good administrator. Inside Germany's Bnd: The Federal Intelligence Service (Inside the World's Most Famous Intelligence Agencies) Library Binding – January 1, 2003 by Katy Schiel (Author) › Visit Amazon's Katy Schiel Page. [34], In 1990, BND gave the Finnish Security Intelligence Service the so-called Tiitinen list—which supposedly contains names of Finns who were believed to have links to Stasi. We focus on an ever-expanding range of issues, from terrorist financing to drug trafficking, from climate change and environmental issues to foreign technology threats and nuclear proliferation. The Bundestag committee investigating the NSA spying scandal has uncovered that the German intelligence agency intercepts communications traveling via both satellites and Internet cables. as the best-informed secret service.[15]. However, the Germans were released only 10 days after they were arrested. While the Strategic Reconnaissance Command [de] (KSA) of the Bundeswehr also fulfills this mission, it is not an intelligence service. The BND headquarters is located in central Berlin and is the world's largest intelligence headquarters. This data is supposedly collected across the world, but the exact locations remains unclear to this date. Intelligence.gov provides a glimpse into the people, work, processes, and structure of the IC. When the public needs information, they can rely on the Public’s Daily Brief. Learn more about what it takes to work in the IC and find opportunities that match your interests and skills. [29][30] The Bundestag constituted an investigative committee ("Parlamentarischer Untersuchungsausschuss") to investigate the allegations. Crypto AG produced and sold radio, Ethernet, STM, GSM, phone and fax encryption systems world wide. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Germany calls on the Bundestag to comprehensively revise the draft Federal Intelligence Service (BND) Act, which was passed by the Federal Cabinet on 16 December. Its provisions fail to guarantee sufficient protection for the confidential communications of foreign media workers and their sources against digital surveillance by the BND. [38][39], Following the 2006 Lebanon War, the BND mediated secret negotiations between Israel and Hezbollah, eventually leading up to the 2008 Israel–Hezbollah prisoner exchange.[40]. With Pullach cryptography[clarification needed] fully functioning, the BND predicted an invasion of Soviet and other Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia. [42] Later the "Army of the Republic of Kosovo" had accepted responsibility for the bomb attack. We work for 17 IC organizations that each focus on a different aspect of our common mission. Many ex-Nazi functionaries including Silberbauer, the captor of Anne Frank, transferred over from the Gehlen Organisation to the BND. We are dedicated, diverse, and passionate thinkers and doers. They knew the carrying capacity of every bridge, the bed count of every hospital, the length of every airfield, the width and level of maintenance of the roads that Soviet armor and infantry divisions would have to traverse in a potential attack on the West. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Federal Intelligence Service [BND] Bundesnachrichtendienst. For other intelligence agencies in Germany, see, CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (, Federal Intelligence Service (Switzerland), Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, Bundestag committee investigating the NSA spying scandal, "Klaus Kinkel, high-profile German foreign minister after reunification, who had earlier led West Germany's intelligence agency – obituary", https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/himmler-daughter-germany-bnd-foreign-intelligence-ss-nazi-hitler-war-criminals-evaded-justice-a8422726.html, https://books.google.ca/books?id=MrONBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA288&dq=Reinhard+gehlen+nazis&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWhbb09rXkAhWKmeAKHYU4CwkQ6AEITjAF#v=onepage&q=Reinhard%20gehlen%20nazis&f=false, https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB146/index.htm, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/03/18/cia-declassifies-its-records-on-dealings-with-ex-nazis/2fa93bad-62ee-42f2-833a-b1d04bc63079/, "The origins of the BND and "official history" in Germany", https://books.google.ca/books?id=GnkBYN8ipYcC&pg=PA405&dq=soviet+moles+in+the+BND&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_5-mL_LrkAhWxmOAKHYZCCPkQ6AEIQDAD#v=onepage&q=soviet%20moles%20in%20the%20BND&f=false, https://books.google.ca/books?id=k-O-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA153&dq=erwin+tiebel+convicted&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjLyMOe87rkAhUGhuAKHRwsBI4Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=erwin%20tiebel%20convicted&f=false, https://books.google.ca/books?id=X7i_I_np11IC&pg=PA797&dq=BND+moles++Soviet&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjA6bnQhLvkAhUEhOAKHTN_CvgQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=BND%20moles%20%20Soviet&f=false, https://books.google.ca/books?id=I84rBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA343&dq=Gehlen+Org+eyes+and+ears+of+the+CIA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5kcy4-rrkAhVLJt8KHc0KCxUQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Gehlen%20Org%20eyes%20and%20ears%20of%20the%20CIA&f=false, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-03-me-passings3-story.html, https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol16no3/html/v16i3a06p_0001.htm, https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-08-05-0208050063-story.html, https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-crypto-encryption-machines-espionage/, "Journalisten bespitzeln war wohl Chefsache", "Vom Parlamentarischen Kontrollgremium des Deutschen Bundestages beauftragter Sachverständiger – Gutachten – Für die Veröffentlichung bestimmte Fassung", "Kanzleramt verbietet BND Anwerbung von Journalisten Nach Skandal um Bespitzelung", "Drucksache 16/13400 – Beschlussempfehlung und Bericht des 1. Among them were Adolf Eichmann’s deputy Alois Brunner, who would go on to die of old age despite having sent more than 100,000 Jews to ghettos or internment camps, and ex-SS major Emil Augsburg. In 2016, it employed around 6,500 people; 10% of them are military personnel who are formally employed by the Office for Military Sciences. Home. Explore IC Careers. The Federal Intelligence Service has the task of gathering and evaluating the necessary information about foreign countries that are of foreign and security policy importance for the Federal Republic of Germany. The authors of the book A Nazi Past: Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe state that Reichard Gehlen simply did not want to know the backgrounds of the men that the BND hired in the 1950s. The Federal Intelligence Service’s (FIS) anticipation and detection capabilities play a leading role in identifying and assessing threats in advance so that preventive measures can be taken in time. Federal Intelligence Service is within the scope of WikiProject Espionage, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of espionage, intelligence, and related topics.If you would like to participate, visit the project page, or contribute to the discussion. The predecessor of the BND was the German eastern military intelligence agency during World War II, the Abteilung Fremde Heere Ost or FHO Section in the General Staff, led by Wehrmacht Major General Reinhard Gehlen. [15], A further laudable success involved the BND's activity during the Czech crisis in 1968; by then, the agency was led by the second president, Gerhard Wessel. Find the perfect federal intelligence service stock photo. At the official opening in February 2019, Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, made this statement: "In an often very confusing world, now, more urgently than ever, Germany needs a strong and efficient foreign intelligence service". Instead of expelling them, the BND even seems to have been willing to recruit more of them – at least for a few years". The erection of the Berlin Wall on 13 August 1961 thus came as a surprise, and the BND's performance in the political field was thereafter often wrong and remained spotty and unimpressive. [21] Only slowly did the younger generation then advance to substitute new ideas for some of the bad habits caused mainly by Gehlen's semi-retired attitude and frequent holiday absences. [47] In December 2016, WikiLeaks published 2,420 documents from the BND and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV). It collects and evaluates information on a variety of areas such as international non-state terrorism, weapons of mass destruction proliferation and illegal transfer of technology, organized crime, weapons and drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal migration and information warfare. [5], Several publications have criticized Gehlen and his organizations for hiring ex-Nazis. "[2] From the early days of the Cold War the Gehlen Organization and later the BND had an intimate cooperation with the CIA, and often was the western intelligence community's only eyes and ears on the ground in the eastern bloc. Providing Exceptional Government Services. Warsaw Pact forces had moved as forecast. But this information, for the most part, came from observation and not from clandestine penetration". The results are published in comprehensive studies. [45] The government of Austria has called on Germany to clarify the allegations.[45]. Rusk shot back: "That is quite out of the question. searching for Federal Intelligence Service 70 found (160 total) alternate case: federal Intelligence Service. The BND was founded during the Cold War in 1956 as the official foreign intelligence agency of West Germany, which had recently joined NATO, and in close cooperation with the CIA. Helms replied: "I am sorry, but I adhere to my opinion. In most cases, the Service operates in secret and hidden and collects information that go beyond public facts. The tasks of the Federal Intelligence Service are diverse. [41] See 2008 Liechtenstein tax affair. It seems certain that the metadata only come from "foreign dialed traffic," that is, from telephone conversations and text messages that are held and sent via mobile phones and satellites.