BND-affair: suspicion of industrial espionage against Airbus hardens

The BND-affair is expanding: the NSA is interested in mirror-information not only for diplomats, governments, but also for employees of the economy. The Airbus is affected, the boss finally demanded a statement.

In the BND-affair The suspicion that the Airbus long-standing Ausspahziel the English-speaking military intelligence services, the so-called Five Eyes, was. In the search for new Observationszielen was a German employee of the aerospace company Airbus marked as a hit. His name was together with a Saudi Arabian phone number listed. The documents show that the News Update.

The entry shows that data streams for the keyword EADS, the former name of the Airbus group are searched. Airbus CEO Tom Enders is irritated and extremely angry about the day-long silence of the government, confirmed a high-level Airbus-Manager the News Update. Enders urge the government, finally adopting a position on the alleged industrial espionage.

The News Update had reported last week that the US secret service with the knowledge of the BND NSA for years companies such as EADS the Airbus-Vorganger ausspionierte. The aerospace company announced on Thursday, a complaint against unknown because of the suspicion of industrial espionage to reimburse.

The News update reports in its latest issue that the German secret service 12,000 search terms deleted, with which the United States diplomats and employees of governments ausforschten.......