Intelligence services of the German Federal Republic \u2013 an introduction<\/strong> Intelligence service scandals \u2013 a chronology<\/strong> For the abolition of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND)<\/strong> Secret services leading court cases<\/strong> Who becomes enemy of the state?<\/strong> The „free democratic order\u201d as weapon<\/strong> Deadly police shots 2008<\/strong> „I see what you think\u201d<\/strong> Nestl\u00e9gate: private surveillance in Switzerland<\/strong> Theme: German intelligence services Intelligence services of the German Federal Republic \u2013 an introduction by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cilip-093","category-summaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-dev.daten.cool\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nby Norbert P\u00fctter<\/strong>
\nGermany\u2019s intelligence services that is the Federal Office and the 16 regional offices of the L\u00e4nder<\/i> as internal intelligence services, the foreign intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst<\/i> (BND) and the Military Counterintelligence Agency (Milit\u00e4rischer Abschirmdienst<\/i>) \u2013 are remnants of the Cold War. After the end of the same, they swiftly found new remits and became \u2013 more closely than ever \u2013 interlinked with the police authorities. The constitutional law of separation between the two has long since been redefined to one of cooperation. Contrary to their official pledges, intelligence services are not merely passive information collection points, but they rather carry out covert actions. Their legal bases do not really restrict them in their actions and their parliamentary control has proven to be ineffective. Even if discounting the numerous scandals surrounding the services, there are no success stories to justify their existence. Abolishing intelligence services altogether is therefore the only logical conclusion.<\/p>\n
\nby Otto Diederichs<\/strong>
\nThe many scandals surrounding Germany\u2019s secret intelligence services clearly came to light long after the contested events have taken place. Issues at stake range from cases of spying and counter spying to blatant human rights violations.<\/p>\n
\nby Gaby Weber<\/strong>
\nUp until its formal institution in 1956, the German external intelligence agency BND worked under the leadership of the CIA as „Organisation Gehlen\u201d \u2013 named after the Nazi general and leader of the corps „Fremde Heere Ost\u201d (Foreign Armies East). The strong anti-Communist orientation remained. With the end of the Cold War and the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the BND lost the justification for its existence and had to search for new remits. The agency not only started to get involved in international criminal investigations \u2013 accompanied by new scandals \u2013 but was promoted to a (militarised) foreign policy instrument. However, the assumption that we should thank a group of spies for peace and security applies neither to the Cold War and even less so to the present<\/p>\n
\nInterview with Undine Weyers and Rainer Elfferding<\/strong>
\nIn a democratically based criminal prosecution, the accused have rights. All steps in the police investigation have to be recorded in the files and accessible to the prosecution. Intelligence services, however, invoke secrecy clauses regarding their sources and refer to the relationship of trust with those who provide them with information. Intelligence services intervention in criminal investigations invariably leads to manipulations that are kept secret from the court and the defence. The defence lawyers Elfferding and Weyers know this from personal experience \u2013 amongst others from the Schm\u00fccker trial (1974-1991) and the current proceedings against alleged members of the „militant group\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nby Ron Steinke<\/strong>
\nIn annual reports, the regional internal security offices and the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution announce which movement, organisation or party they currently assess to be „enemies of the constitution\u201d (verfassungsfeindlich<\/i>). What appears to be an objective legal assessment, however, is nothing more than the political positioning of the relevant authority or interior ministry.<\/p>\n
\nby Wolf-Dieter Narr<\/strong>
\nThe administrative appeals tribunal of the M\u00fcnster High Court forced the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution to end the surveillance of the member of parliament Bodo Ramelow, but declared the surveillance of the party Die Linke<\/i> as a whole to be legal. The higher administrative court Mannheim helped the teacher Michael Csaszk\u00f3czy to be instated in the school service, but it thought a general checking of applicants in the public services for their „loyalty to the constitution\u201d to be normal. The construct of the „free democratic order\u201d, which was defined in a series of court decisions on banning the fascist SRP (1952) and the Communist KPD (1956), forms the legal and ideological basis for the definition of internal enemies up until today<\/p>\nNon-theme contributions<\/h4>\n
\nby Otto Diederichs<\/strong>
\nCILIP counted ten cases of police using firearms with deadly results in 2008. The official statistics of the Interior Ministers\u2019 Conference comes to the same number \u2013 albeit in a more indirect manner.<\/p>\n
\nby Ralf K\u00f6lbel and Susanne Selter<\/strong>
\nAt US airports, travellers will soon have to undergo facial scans. Video cameras will thereby be linked to a series of medical and technical equipment to detect even the slightest changes in facial expression, which in turn should hint at a person\u2019s possible terrorist intentions.<\/p>\n
\nby Dinu Gautier<\/strong>
\nThree female spies infiltrated left-wing and autonomous groups in West Switzerland for months. The press refers to a \u2018Nestl\u00e9gate\u2019, as the infiltration took place on order of the multi-national food company Nestl\u00e9. The security firm Securitas ensured its implementation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"