obtained by the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung<\/a> newspaper.<\/p>\nAugust Hanning attends The Democracy Gala honoring Bill Clinton as The Peacemaker of the Century at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin, Germany, on March 18, 2025. AEDT \/ SplashNews.com<\/p>\n
Police officers are stationed at the entrance to the home of former president of the Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, August Hanning, in Nordwalde, Germany, Oct. 6, 2026. Christoph Reichwein\/DPA via AP<\/p>\n
He is alleged to have agreed with a former BND office manager to receive confidential intelligence information in exchange for payment dating back to 2010 \u2014 after he left office, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n
The 80-year-old ex-spook was arrested in the southern town of Bad Toelz-Wolfrathausen, while the office manager, identified as Manfred D., was charged with aiding and abetting attempted treason and treasonous espionage in Steinfurt, western Germany.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said Manfred allegedly supplied 2,000 documents over the years, including classified material intended solely for internal BND use.<\/p>\n
Hanning allegedly used the information to prepare an analysis for an officer of a foreign intelligence service, sharing political information with a representative of the spy agency for years, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Who the two men were suspected of spying for was not revealed, and both men\u2019s homes were searched on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Hanning was arrested on suspicion of selling state secrets to a foreign intelligence service. Michael Kappeler\/DPA via AP<\/p>\n
\u201cHanning is strongly suspected of treasonous espionage, obtaining state secrets, attempted treason and espionage,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n
BND President Martin Jaeger said his agency had launched extensive internal investigations as soon as suspicions emerged, adding that \u201cthere can be no compromises on internal security.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s former spymaster was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of selling state secrets to a foreign intelligence service. August…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[303,16769,9,11,10,49,51,50,89504,1076],"class_list":["post-365982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-crime","tag-germany","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-spies","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}