A general view of the former National Security Agency monitoring site in Bad Aibling. Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, has since taken over much of the site. But an NSA unit remained behind when most of the US personnel stationed there left in 2004. Documents from the archive of whistleblower Edward Snowden show that German and American intelligence agents cooperated closely at the site in the years that followed. Reuters
New NSA Revelations: Inside Snowden's Germany File -- Spiegel Online
An analysis of secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden demonstrates that the NSA is more active in Germany than anywhere else in Europe -- and that data collected here may have helped kill suspected terrorists.
Just before Christmas 2005, an unexpected event disrupted the work of American spies in the south-central German city of Wiesbaden. During the installation of a fiber-optic cable near the Rhine River, local workers encountered a suspicious metal object, possibly an undetonated World War II explosive. It was certainly possible: Adolf Hitler's military had once maintained a tank repair yard in the Wiesbaden neighborhood of Mainz-Kastel.
The Americans -- who maintained what was officially known as a "Storage Station" on Ludwig Wolker Street -- prepared an evacuation plan. And on Jan. 24, 2006, analysts with the National Security Agency (NSA) cleared out their offices, cutting off the intelligence agency's access to important European data streams for an entire day, a painfully long time. The all-clear only came that night: The potential ordinance turned out to be nothing more than a pile of junk.
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More News On NSA Operations In Germany
NSA Turned Germany Into Its Largest Listening Post in Europe -- The Intercept
Germany is NSA’s primary host of surveillance architecture in Europe – report -- RT
Germany Seeks Criminal Prosecution of NSA Snoops -- New American
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