3. [Spiegel] NSA\BND intelligence scandal puts Merkel in tight place [Classificatio...

[Spiegel] NSA\BND intelligence scandal puts Merkel in tight place [Classification level unknown]

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The barracks is also home to the so-called Special US Liaison Activity Germany, the liaison office between the NSA and the BND. With the Americans' help, the BND, from Bad Aibling, has been intercepting huge numbers of signals from crisis regions around the world for more than 10 years now.

On August 14, 2013, the BND staffer sent a message to the BND official in charge at Bad Aibling, with the initials R.U., about his finding.

The intelligence operations undertaken by the BND overseas are not legally regulated - which the BND has interpreted as tacit permission to do as it pleases outside of Germany's borders.

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