https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The whistleblower group's new report describes how the CIA reportedly hacked into iPhones, Microsoft Windows and even Samsung TVs around the world - and the German financial centre is reportedly a major hub. https://www.thelocal.de/20170307/wikileaks-claims-us-frankfurt-consulate-is-a-cia-hacker-base Tue, 07 Mar 2017 17:24:04 +0100 wikileaks-claims-us-frankfurt-consulate-is-a-cia-hacker-base A Munich court Thursday sentenced a former German intelligence agent to eight years in jail for spying for both the CIA and the Russian secret service, German media reported. https://www.thelocal.de/20160317/munich-court-sentences-triple-agent-to-8-years-jail Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:52:18 +0100 munich-court-sentences-triple-agent-to-8-years-jail A German suspected triple agent charged with treason admitted Monday to spying for the CIA, telling a court he had done so out of dissatisfaction with his secret service job. https://www.thelocal.de/20151116/triple-agent-admits-spying-for-the-cia Mon, 16 Nov 2015 19:28:32 +0100 triple-agent-admits-spying-for-the-cia Federal prosecutors have brought charges against a former worker at Germany's foreign intelligence agency who is suspected of passing information to American spies. https://www.thelocal.de/20150820/prosecutors-launch-case-against-cia-spy Thu, 20 Aug 2015 17:38:44 +0200 prosecutors-launch-case-against-cia-spy Investigators found a list of 3,500 German intelligence agents' names and their aliases on a hard drive belonging to a US double agent caught in July. https://www.thelocal.de/20150114/bnd-double-agent-stole-aliases-list-cia-nsa-security-spying-terrorism Wed, 14 Jan 2015 09:49:00 +0100 bnd-double-agent-stole-aliases-list-cia-nsa-security-spying-terrorism Opposition parties are calling for the government to adopt a harsher stance towards the USA after the US Senate published a report into CIA torture last week. https://www.thelocal.de/20141217/greens-and-left-demand-follow-up-on-us-torture-cia-senate-report-cheney-bush-guantanamo-rendition Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:08:00 +0100 greens-and-left-demand-follow-up-on-us-torture-cia-senate-report-cheney-bush-guantanamo-rendition A German citizen abducted and tortured by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agents in 2004 should never have been detained, a US Senate report published on Tuesday showed. https://www.thelocal.de/20141210/cia-tortured-german-mistaken-for-terrorist Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:23:00 +0100 cia-tortured-german-mistaken-for-terrorist President Barack Obama on Tuesday spoke to Chancellor Angela Merkel for the first time since a row over US spying prompted Germany to turf out the CIA station chief in Berlin. https://www.thelocal.de/20140716/obama-merkel-speak-for-first-time-since-spy-row Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:47:00 +0200 obama-merkel-speak-for-first-time-since-spy-row The German government said on Tuesday it expected the USA’s spy chief in Berlin to leave the country "promptly" rather than wait to be formally expelled, following a request made last week ordering him to go. https://www.thelocal.de/20140715/germans-expect-us-spy-chief-to-go-soon Tue, 15 Jul 2014 19:13:00 +0200 germans-expect-us-spy-chief-to-go-soon American spies have been keeping tabs on their Teutonic counterparts for decades – not only the East Germans of the Cold War, but also allied West Germans, according to newly released documents. https://www.thelocal.de/20111024/38405 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:29:00 +0200 38405 Germany's BND foreign intelligence service was "misused" by the US government to justify the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to the former head of the spy agency. https://www.thelocal.de/20110828/37237 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 21:55:00 +0200 37237 The German government is reportedly reassessing the amount of information it is passing on to US authorities, after a German citizen was killed by a US drone attack on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border last year. https://www.thelocal.de/20110515/35037 Sun, 15 May 2011 15:53:00 +0200 35037 More documents released by Wikileaks this week have shown that Washington put intense pressure on Berlin not to enforce arrest warrants against CIA agents involved in the 2003 abduction of a German citizen mistakenly believed to be a terrorist. https://www.thelocal.de/20101209/31697 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:01:00 +0100 31697 A secret history of US government World War II-era operations has concluded that US intelligence services created a safe haven in America for German Nazis and their collaborators, The New York Times reported late on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.de/20101114/31157 Sun, 14 Nov 2010 10:07:00 +0100 31157 A CIA expert has called for optimistic Afghans and their womenfolk to be recruited as flag-wavers for the NATO mission, to persuade sceptical Europeans to support the war, according to a document leaked on Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20100327/26159 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:23:00 +0100 26159 The US authorities have denied having made plans to execute Hamburg businessman Mamoun Darkazanli for his extensive ties to the terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks. https://www.thelocal.de/20100109/24463 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:46:00 +0100 24463 Hamburg's interior minister called on the German government on Wednesday to investigate claims that the CIA intended to assassinate a suspected al-Qaida helper in the port city after 9/11 terror attacks. https://www.thelocal.de/20100106/24407 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:42:00 +0100 24407 A CIA assassination team reportedly targeted a Syrian-German man living in Hamburg after he was connected to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. https://www.thelocal.de/20100104/24347 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:21:00 +0100 24347 Three controversial secret CIA prisons built after September 11, 2001 to house alleged terrorists were planned from Frankfurt, The New York Times reported this week. https://www.thelocal.de/20090814/21253 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:45:00 +0200 21253 Khaled el-Masri, a Lebanese-born German national abducted by the CIA in Macedonia in 2004 and flown to Afghanistan for interrogation on terrorism charges, is claiming €50,000 in damages from Skopje. https://www.thelocal.de/20090126/17017 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:08:00 +0100 17017