American espionage in Germany: Difference between revisions

With the end of the Cold War, the presence of American intelligence services was scaled back and intelligence personnel in Western Europe were reduced by around half. An end to the surveillance of the German telephone and postal network was agreed to with the Germans, although the Americans did not adhere to this in the period that followed.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web/German|autor=Matthew M. Aid|url=https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/36813_USEO_Background_Article.pdf|titel=The Declassified History of American Intelligence Operations in Europe: 1945-2001|zugriff=2024-07-05|sprache=en}}</ref> In 1995, US President [[Bill Clinton]] is said to have instructed the CIA to step up [[Industrial espionage|economic espionage]] against friendly countries such as [[Japan]] and Germany. During the [[United Nations|UN]] inspections of the facilities operated by [[Saddam Hussein|Saddam Hussein's]] regime in [[Iraq]], the CIA is said to have stolen secrets from the German nuclear industry.<ref>{{Cite web/German|autor=NDR|url=https://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/archiv/1996/Milliardengeschaeft-geplatzt-Deutsche-Atomgeheimnisse-vom-CIA-geklaut,erste6728.html|titel=Milliardengeschäft geplatzt - Deutsche Atomgeheimnisse vom CIA geklaut?|zugriff=2024-07-05|sprache=de}}</ref>

 

 

[[Gerhard Schröder]]'s refusal to join the [[Coalition of the willing (Iraq War)|coalition of the willing]] caused mistrust among the Americans. As a result, he was put on the NSA's list of people to be monitored from 2002 and his phone calls were tapped.<ref>{{Cite web/German|autor=deutschlandfunk.de|url=https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/abhoerskandal-nsa-hoerte-auch-gerhard-schroeder-ab-100.html|titel=Abhörskandal - NSA hörte auch Gerhard Schröder ab|zugriff=2024-07-05|sprache=de}}</ref>

 

The BND is said to have cooperated with the NSA in spying on German citizens, which led to public criticism of the service.<ref>{{Cite web/German|url=https://www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2018/juni/fuenf-jahre-nsa-affaere-die-neue-macht-des-bnd|titel=Fünf Jahre NSA-Affäre: Die neue Macht des BND {{!}} Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik|zugriff=2024-07-05}}</ref> The BND forwarded data such as private cell phone numbers and email addresses to the NSA and pre-sorted data for the NSA. In response to the affair, the [[Bundestag|German Bundestag]] passed a revised BND law in October 2016.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Niesen |first=Claudia |date=2017-02-16 |title=NSA-Affäre: Worum geht es? |url=https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/nsa-affaere-worum-geht-es-a-1134779.html |access-date=2024-07-13 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349}}</ref>

 

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