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Recent promotions fuel resentment among BND staff as new overhaul looms

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Martin Jaeger, BND director since September 2025, has launched a major reform of the service.
Martin Jaeger, BND director since September 2025, has launched a major reform of the service. © Sebastian Rau/photothek.de/DPA Picture-Alliance via AFP

A newly created position of communications director in Germany's foreign intelligence service has riled personnel, who remain without pay raises amid wide-reaching reforms of the agency's administrative structure.

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