Geheimdienst-Affare : BND had 12,000 NSA-delete search terms

The BND has for many years with the NSA apparently helped the espionage. According to information of the news magazine NEWS UPDATE, the German Secret Service delete 12,000 search terms, with which the United States diplomats and governments ausforschten.

In the investigation of the informers in Bad Aibling NSA-search terms was fed into the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in August 2013 to a large extent on so-called selectors, so search features as you wish. With these scoured the United States diplomats and employees of governments in Europe.

According to information from the News Update the active search file searched an agent of the NSA with the initials "diplo", "office" and "gov". It was elements of e-mail addresses which diplomats, public authorities and governments in Germany and other European countries use.

Immediately landed the BND-employees a real winner, there were a total of 12,000 such features in the search file, including some e-mail addresses which led to high-ranking French diplomats. Also e-mail of the EU-institutions and of several European governments need to including employees have found.

The News Update had previously reported that the NSA using BND-technology over the years ausforschte European companies and politicians. The NSA provided the BND therefore for the monitoring of the traffic from the Teufelsberg Bad Aibling from many selectors - such as phone numbers or IP addresses of computers - to destinations in Europe. The BND informed the Chancellor's Office on the inadmissible Spahversuche the Americans had already years ago. But only as the NSA-execute inquiry, the government more intensive research and white since March detailed decision.