Germany's Former Spy Chief Just Got Arrested for Selling Secrets
Turns out the guy formerly in charge of keeping Germany's secrets safe might have been the one handing them over.
It feels like a script for a bad spy thriller, but here we are. August Hanning, who spent years running the BND, Germany’s version of the CIA, is now sitting in a cell. He is facing charges of treason and espionage, largely because he supposedly couldn't resist playing courier for foreign intelligence.
The whole thing blew open during an investigation into a totally unrelated kidnapping case involving a steakhouse heiress. Investigators started digging and realized that Hanning and his colleague, Manfred D, were running a private document service. They allegedly moved around 2,000 internal, classified files. At one point, Hanning even drafted a custom analysis for a foreign agency using top-tier secrets.
Apparently, the job description for the head of national intelligence doesn't include moonlighting as an international informant. It’s hard to imagine how someone gets to the very top of the food chain only to decide that selling out is the best career move.
Nothing says job security like being the person who writes the rulebook and then getting caught breaking every single page of it.
Source: BBC News
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