Yet another suspected Russian spy has been arrested in Germany – the third such case in recent months.
The suspect – named only as Thomas H. by the Geman media for legal reasons – is an employee of the department of Germany’s army, the Bundeswehr, responsible for procuring defence technology.
The country that produced the Gestapo and SS has always had a healthy distrust of spies
He is said to have approached the Russian embassy in Berlin and its consulate in Bonn in May and offered to provide secrets connected to his work. The arrest follows similar cases late last year when an agent of Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND, was arrested and accused of betraying secrets to the Russians, and an officer in the Bundeswehr reserve was put on probation for supplying information to Moscow for years.
The latest arrest comes hard on the heels of two former heads of the BND, August Hanning and Gerhard Schindler, writing to the Bild newspaper at the weekend complaining that the agency was ‘hobbled and toothless’ because of bureaucratic oversight and interference.
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