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GERMANY 19/09/2018

Intelligence community in disarray after Maassen forced out

Angela Merkel with Hans-Georg Maassen, then boss of the BfV. ©Reuters

As well as the political upheavals it signals, the removal of internal intelligence chief Hans-George Maassen also illustrates tensions inside the German intelligence community. [...] (716 words)

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