BND

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Group.png BND  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Formation1 April 1956
Parent organizationGermany
Typeintelligence agency
Interest ofAristide Brunello, Richard Christmann, Katherine Horton
SubpageBND/President

The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is the foreign intelligence service of the Federal Republic of Germany.[1]

History

The BND was formed in 1956 on the basis of the Organisation Gehlen controlled by former Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen, who remained as head until 1968.[2]

Iraq

Curveball

The BND was responsible for briefing the Iraqi defector known as Curveball after he claimed asylum in Germany in 1999. His stories would form the basis of a claim in George W. Bush's 2003 state of the union address that Iraq had mobile biological weapons labs .[3]

People

Presidents

Vice Presidents

Structure

  • Directorate GL: Situation Centre
  • Directorate UF: Specialised Supporting Services
  • Directorate EA: Areas of Operation/Liason
  • Directorate TA: Signals Intelligence
  • Directorate LA: Region A Countries
  • Directorate LB: Region B Countries
  • Directorate TE: Terrorism and International Organised Crime
  • Directorate TW: Proliferation, NBC Weapons
  • Directorate SI: Security
  • Directorate TU: Technical Support
  • Directorate TK: Technical Development
  • Directorate ZY: Central Services
  • Directorate UM: Relocation[5]

 

Employees on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEndDescription
Erich DethleffsenLeader of Analysis SectionJuly 19581968
Willi KrichbaumHead of the General Agency L19481961Former Deputy Gestapo Chief
Arndt Freytag von LoringhovenBND/Deputy Director20072010

 

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References

  1. About BND, Bundesnchrichtendienst, accessed 5 September 2009.
  2. Daniele Ganser, NATO's Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe, Frank Cass, 2005, pp.200-201.
  3. Bob Drogin, Curveball, Ebury Press, pp.366-367.
  4. Die Präsidenten des Bundesnachrichtendienstes, Das Bundesarchiv, accessed 5 September 2009.
  5. Structure, Bundesnachrichtendienst, accessed 5 September 2009.