Germany’s federal security intelligence services — its state spy network (the equivalent of the CIA or Britain’s MI6) — have been granted malicious new powers.
The BND, or Bundesnachrichtendienst, will be given potentially lethal functions, including a new “licence to open fire.” It maintains that this will only be used in “self-defence” scenarios, however.
The Guardian calls Germany’s espionage overhaul a “revolution,” in which its parliament handed the deep-state security apparatus its “wishlist“. That apparatus includes both domestic and foreign intelligence arms, according to experts cited in European media. The BND employs some 6,500 operatives (on record).
The Times labels the new powers a “shackles off” moment for the Federal German Republic’s spies. The Telegraph likewise announces that the “radical reforms” will allow its intelligence operatives to
…open fire… commit sabotage abroad and spread disinformation…
These kind of declarations, from across the political spectrum of British media, are clearly bold statements of intent. Liberal European journal the EU Observer put it equally frankly:
German spies to get offensive powers, breaking post-Cold War taboo on ‘secret police’ …
Act instead of merely watching. Move from defence to offence.
The notion that the BND only ever occupied a ‘defensive’ posture is not entirely true. But the point is that its powers have been historically limited in comparison to similar foreign intelligence services, for good reason.
Left-wing political party Die Linke‘s domestic policy expert Clara Bünger, was quoted by Tagesschau:
Anyone who gives the intelligence services operational rights of intervention, powers of sabotage and state hackbacks is planning a new German secret police.
Feeling similarly, the FDP leader Wolfgang Kubicki said that the bold new reforms are
a historic taboo breach. Everything the conservative bloc has always wanted in terms of powers of intervention without overly bothersome legal hurdles is now to be handed [over].
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From defensive ‘watching’ to offensive acting
The BND has historically acted, however, rather than “merely” watching. And the BND has a particularly dark origin story, to say the least. As the Guardian wrote in 2015,
the BND originated in the Nazi era: it was created by Major-General Reinhard Gehlen, who spied on the Red Army for Adolf Hitler.
Its domestic Nazi-era equivalent would be the Gestapo, or Hitler’s secret police. Yet the BND persisted after the Third Reich’s downfall and effectively became a sub-division of the CIA’s European operations. Its function as an anti-communist outfit persisted throughout the so-called ‘Cold’ War.
It presented itself as a counterweight against the Stasi, the secret police force of Soviet-managed East Germany. Nonetheless, it continued to employ high-ranking Nazi ex-officials as spies in that era. These included former top-ranking SS officer, Hartmann Lauterbacher, recruited on a permanent basis from 1950 to 1963. Another was Klaus Barbie, a Nazi war criminal recruited in 1960s Bolivia under a false name.
The BND’s expansive new powers are inevitably situated within this murky fascist history. Thus, many Germans are fearful of a Stasi- or Gestapo-like force being granted new “offensive” powers.
The guise under which these powers are being legislated is, as you’d expect, to counter Russian activities. Depending on where you look, rising “foreign powers” the BND will confront include China too.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s ruling “centrist” coalition of fanatic Zionists and corporate technocrats hurried the legislation forward. They did this owing to a purported discovery of an “explosive device” on a Ukrainian drone weapons shipment in Germany. As the institutionally ever-faithful Guardian put it:
US intelligence ‘believes Russia was behind Leipzig airport drone bomb’ … German government talks of a ‘new level of danger’ but declines to say who it thinks was responsible for device
That would be the same US intelligence which said Russia caused the Nord Stream pipeline explosion back in 2022. The same explosion which German prosecutors now allege Ukrainian saboteurs were behind.
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Germany’s BND-Mossad connections
German intelligence, separate to the BND, has a third wing which is dedicated to defending the Republic’s constitution, or Basic Law. Activists rightly criticise the BfV, or Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, for its assessment that watermelon symbols might be coded antisemitism.
This is explicable by German adherence to Staatsräson, the political belief that Germany’s state functions (partly) to serve Israel’s interests. Though not constitutional, all mainstream politicians support it.
The BND too has a well-established connection with ‘Israeli’ spies. In 2006, for example, it provided Mossad agents with false passports, in order to shield its Zionist spy agents. Mossad is renowned for carrying out notoriously aggressive operations, including extraterritorial executions and bombing campaigns.
Among these was Mossad’s 2024 pager terror attack, in which rigged electronic devices exploded across Lebanon. Targeting resistance group Hezbollah, the pager explosion killed dozens and injured over 3,000 people. Many maimed had no connection to Hezbollah children were among those murdered.
In 2020, Mossad collaborated with the BND to gather intelligence on Hezbollah. This led to the group’s new designation as a “terrorist organisation.” Following that influence operation, a Mossad source said:
Bruno Kahl, the head of the German intelligence organization BND, is a close friend of Mossad.
Mossad’s affiliation with German state officials is not morally selective, to say the least. In the 1960s the agency recruited a former Waffen-SS commander and personal favourite of Adolf Hitler, Otto Skorzeny.
Kahl’s replacement, Martin Jäger, now heads the BND. He served as German ambassador to Ukraine from 2023, after the full-scale war began, until replacing Kahl in 2025. This situates him neatly within the complex of Germany’s dangerous nationalistic rearmament drive in the NATO proxy war against Russia.
Previously, as ambassador to Iraq, Jäger hosted a secretive elite “leadership” meeting of the Baden-Baden Unternehmergespräche (B-BUG) in Tel Aviv. He hosted various liberal Israeli and German-educated public intellectuals, alongside Germany’s ambassador to Israel. All were under hush-hush Chatham House Rules.
On its annual programme, the “Baden-Baden Entrepreneur Talks” boasted:
Today, about 120 of the most important German companies, primarily from industry, make up its membership, including almost all of the DAX-40 corporations as well as a substantial number of medium-sized ‘global players’ of the German “Mittelstand”.
Together they represent the backbone of the German economy.
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