organization:bnd

Ex-Nazis ‘gave Mossad the edge in Six-Day War’ (et, non, ce n’est pas la première fois qu’on entends ce genre de chose) :
▻https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ex-nazis-gave-mossad-the-edge-in-six-day-war-q6fk5wp6z

Israel was able to launch its surprise attack against Egypt and Syria at the beginning of the Six-Day War thanks to information provided to Mossad by an intelligence network of former Nazis, according to a book by an Italian who claims to have played a role.

Adriano Monti fought, aged 15, in the international division of the German SS at the end of the Second World War and was recruited into a postwar intelligence organisation founded by General Reinhard Gehlen. Gehlen had run German army espionage efforts against eastern Europe during the war and worked closely with the CIA after it. His “Gehlen Organisation” became the backbone of West Germany’s foreign intelligence organisation, the BND.

Saudi Arabia ’destabilising Arab world’, German intelligence warns
▻http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/12029546/Saudi-Arabia-destabilising-Arab-world-German-intelligence-warns.html

It is unusual for the BND spy agency to publicly release such a blunt assessment on a country that is considered an ally of the West. Germany has long-standing political and economic ties with Saudi Arabia

#arabie_saoudite

German intelligence agency BND stops transmitting data to NSA

After doing so for years, the BND has stopped sharing with the NSA internet data it collected through Bad Aibling satellite base. This has been announced by the national television channels WDR and NDR on May 7th 2015.

Raison: le refus de la NSA de justifier chaque demande.

▻http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/geheimdienst-affaere-bnd-stoppt-internet-ueberwachung-fuer-die-nsa-1.24

▻http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2015/05/07/les-services-allemands-limitent-leur-cooperation-avec-la-nsa_4629778_3214.ht

▻http://www.nextinpact.com/news/94066-le-renseignement-allemand-aurait-espionne-cibles-europeennes-pour-

– Les journaux allemands accusent la chancellerie d’avoir fermé les yeux
– Wikileaks publie des comptes rendus de l’enquête sur les écoutes de la NSA
– L’Allemagne aurait demandé l’aide de Deutsche Telekom pour sa surveillance

▻http://fr.sputniknews.com/international/20150512/1016046947.html

#BND - Bundesnachrichtendienst
#NSA
#espionnage #espionage

Syrian opposition urges rebels to join key battle - Yahoo! News
▻http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-opposition-urges-rebels-join-key-battle-091542816.html

In Germany, the weekly Der Spiegel reported that the German intelligence chief has revised his assessment of the Syrian civil war.

The chief, Gerhard Schindler, told a small group of politicians dealing with security issues in a secret briefing that Assad’s military is stronger than it has been in a long time, according to Der Spiegel. Additional successful offensives of the regime are possible anytime, he said.

The German intelligence agency BND believes this is a turning point. At the end of 2012, it appeared the regime was in its end phase.

He said the channels for restocking the regime’s weapons supplies are now open, and the supply of gas for tanks and aircraft is also working again. Schindler said Assad most likely won’t be able to defeat the rebels, but he can contain them and even win back some territory.

The BND predicts that in 2013, regime troops will be able to recapture additional territory. If the fighting continues as it has in recent weeks, the regime could recapture the entire south by the end of the year. In this case, the rebels would be left with only the north.

On Wednesday, Germany’s Foreign Ministry said it supports adding Hezbollah to the EU’s list of terrorist groups. The ministry linked the recommendation to a deadly attack on Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year that was tied to Hezbollah.

Sylke Tempel, a Mideast expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin, said she believed the German support for sanctions against Hezbollah’s military wing was due in part to its role in Syria fighting.

She said the presence of Hezbollah fighters in Syria has led Western and regional governments to ponder “what if Assad is going to win this thing” and “what if Hezbollah is a factor in making Assad win, or at least not lose.”

Germany reveals Al-Qaeda activity in Syria
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/us-intelligence-struggling-syria

Al-Qaeda is responsible for at least 90 terror attacks in Syria, according to Germany’s intelligence agency, BND.

Citing government responses to a parliamentary inquiry, German daily Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) said Al-Qaeda operatives were well and truly in Syria.

The revelations confirm Western fears that Al-Qaeda is taking advantage of the crisis, potentially undermining rebel efforts against the Syrian regime.

Gewalt in Syrien : „Deutschland beteiligt sich an Propaganda“
►http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/arabische-welt/gewalt-in-syrien-deutschland-beteiligt-sich-an-propaganda-11822065.html

In der Antwort der Bundesregierung hieß es auch, seit Ende Dezember 2011 bis Anfang Juli 2012 seien in Syrien etwa 90 Terroranschläge zu verzeichnen gewesen, „die al-Qaida nahen Organisationen oder jihadistischen Gruppierungen zugeordnet werden können“.