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THIRD OF SEIZURES NET FISSILE MATERIAL

Fifteen of the 46 cases of illicit plutonium and uranium smuggling uncovered by the German police since 1990 have involved [...]

PUTTING BONN INTO THE PICTURE

Germany is expected to formally announce in March that it will take part in the French-led Helios 2 observation satellite [...]

PROPOSALS FOR GERMANY

The Berlin office of the Social Democrat Friedrich Ebert Stiftung [...]

Germany's Geutebruck company has developed a system named SecuriDAB which [...]

MUSICAL CHAIRS IN SPRING

Intelligence circles were predicting before the Oct. 16 general election [...]

STASI SPOILS PDS SUCCESS

Germany's parliamentary election on 16 October was a great success for the successor to East Germany's former Communist Party, the [...]

TERRORIST HOUSE CLEANING

The recent arrest in Norway of Soraya Ansari - charged with taking part in the legendary 1977 hijacking to Mogadishu [...]

IRAN USING GERMAN REPORTER?

On 7 October in a Berlin court ordered German national Michael Oskar Brestrich to stop taking notes during the "Mykonos [...]

BND GETS A SLAP FROM RUSSIA

Yuri Rogozhin of the parliamentary State Committee for the Supervision [...]

GERMAN DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE

Germany has clearly decided to use its term as president of the European Union until the end of this year [...]

JURGEN STORBECK

Jurgen Storbeck, head of Europol, has called for a "European FBI" to be set up to tackle trans-continental plutonium smuggling, [...]

"REVERSED" CELLPHONES

Last year the German weekly Focus showed how to listen [...]

MAJOR EUROPEAN COMPUTER CONFERENCE

The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) is organizing the [...]

MAKING A DEAL WITH IRAN

German and Iran have struck a deal for the release [...]

Spotlight
THE BECKER CASE

According to information obtained by Intelligence Newsletter from diplomatic sources in Cairo, Silvan Becker, one of the German Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz's (BfV) senior experts on anti-terrorism, who officially died in a Tripoli hospital on 9 April, was not on vacation [.

YES TO EUROPEAN SATELLITE

At its 4 May meeting, Germany's Bundessicherheitsrat (BSR, Federal Security Council) is expected to approve German participation in the construction [...]

BND'S ISRAELI TRAFFIC ON TRIAL

Prosecutors in Hamburg have charged two senior unnamed Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) officers - a lieutenant colonel on loan from the Bundeswehr [...]

TWO NASTY BFV REPORTS

A secret report by the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (BfV) dated 29 June 1993 and obtained by Intelligence Newsletter officially confirms [...]

ALFRED KRAUSE

Lieutenant General Alfred Krause, former director of East German's military intelligence unit, the Verwaltung Aufklärung (VA) of the Nationale Volksarmee [...]