It was a ruckus that the Bundesamt für den Militärischen Abschirmdienst (BAMAD), Germany's military counter-intelligence service, could well have done without: the leak of details of a meeting on 19 February between four German air force officers that sent shockwaves through the defence ministry, to which BAMAD reports.
The leaks illustrated weakness in the protection of classified meetings. They concerned the potential delivery of Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine – formally denied by Chancellor
