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Pessimistischer Beobachter des Weltgeschehens mit zu vielen Interessen u. einer Joseph-Roth-Meise. Journalist: v. a. Musik- u. Ski-/Bergthemen. Ex-Regensburger.

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Trump proffered sanctions relief for Russian diesel fuel, called on Ukraine to oust its leader and pressured Kyiv to stop striking Russian oil facilities. Putin, in return, offered more war. @paulsonne.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/w...
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Trump Hands Victories to Putin, Who Offers More War in Return
Russia has reaped a diesel deal and an increase in U.S. pressure on Ukraine as President Trump’s political needs align with his longstanding inclinations toward Russia.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Trump reverses course and cancels live-streaming of Hasan execution: "Many very good and well meaning people would rather not watch him die, through streaming, or through any other visual device. He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed."
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 21h
Perhaps most striking is that corruption in government has surged to become the number one voter concern, topping even inflation and gas prices. By contrast, voter fraud, which Trump keeps pushing as a priority, is the lowest of 13 issues of concern.
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 21h
Trump's approval rating falls to 36% in @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy poll, an all-time low in that survey over both terms. Disapproval of the job he is doing has reached 77% on inflation, 70% on the economy, 69% on tariffs and 64% on foreign policy. www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
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Fox News Poll: Cost-of-living concerns weigh on GOP in midterms
A Fox News survey finds Trump's approval on inflation hitting a new low of 22% as six in 10 voters say cost of living is their top economic worry.
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Vassili Golod @golod.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Vor internationalen Diplomat:innen durfte ich über unsere Berichterstattung aus der Ukraine sprechen. Unser Job ist gefährlich – mehrere Kolleg:innen wurden bei ihrer Arbeit getötet. Es ist unabdingbar, dass die Welt aus erster Hand über den russischen Terror gegen Zivilist:innen informiert wird.
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 15/10/2026
Ryanair ‘recognises’ disputed Western Sahara territory in controversial marketing campaign
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Ryanair ‘recognises’ disputed Western Sahara territory in controversial marketing campaign
Advertising Standards Authority agrees ‘Moroccan adventure’ advert likely to be misleading
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 15/10/2026
‘The block [on attacking refineries] is out. We’re done,’ the Ukrainian president said in an interview with the FT in which he expressed anger at the ‘dangerous’ withdrawal of US intelligence sharing and weakening of Starlink satellite internet service. ft.trib.al/E4gAQX0
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Shaun Walker @shaunwalker7.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Like many, I've been fascinated and confused by the mystery of Havana Syndrome for years. Reported this long piece on the history and recent developments, talking to victims/sufferers, intel sources, scientists, and the authors of an upcoming book www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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‘Like a drill going into my eye’: why the mystery over Havana syndrome refuses to die
Dozens of CIA officers have been afflicted by debilitating symptoms over the past decade. Are they the result of ‘mass hysteria’? Or are they from attacks with an energy weapon and, if so, who is resp...
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Oliver Grimm @grimmse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Legally, the EU has the means to stop the livestreaming of Nidal Hasan's execution. Does it have the political will to use them, too? My latest for "The Morning Post Europe", with @davidcarretta.bsky.social and @cspillmann.bsky.social. europemorningpost.substack.com/p/pete-hegse...
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Pete Hegseth's Execution Porn Puts The EU In A Tight Spot
Good morning!
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Peter Plaikner @peterplaikner.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Slowenien? Im Schatten von Orbáns Ungarn haben sich rund um Österreich heimlichere Feinde der Medienfreiheit etabliert. Vom RAI-Personalwechsel zu Tele-Meloni in Italien bis zur Umstellung von Rundfunkgebühr auf Staatsfinanzierung in Tschechien ab 2027 kommen die Einschläge näher (@sn.at, 10.10.).
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taz @taz.de · 14/10/2026
Die CDU will den Saal verlassen, wenn in Sachsen-Anhalt der neue Ministerpräsident gewählt wird. Die Partei baut damit einem neuen Skandal vor 👉️ taz.de/!6216855/
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heiseonline @heise.de · 14/10/2026
Wenn Angreifer beschließen, dass Frankreichs Supermärkte mal eine Sauna-Session brauchen. 🫠 Zum Artikel: heise.de/-11485129
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 12/10/2026
FT Exclusive: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s foreign minister expressed concern regarding the use of public funds from Republika Srpska — a self-governing entity that forms part of Bosnia — to develop political influence in the US on behalf of Moscow allies. ft.trib.al/UQ97VD1
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 13/10/2026
The American diplomat has been accused in a series of news articles of accepting gifts and offering to connect a wealthy donor with members of the Trump administration in exchange for paying off her credit card debt. ft.trib.al/b4tLHa2
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@funkygiesing.bsky.social @funkygiesing.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
"To execute the scheme, suspects allegedly generated hundreds of falsified waste tracking sheets and fake construction diaries to disguise hazardous materials as municipal waste cover or legitimate building materials." #Croatia #Europol #MüllMafia
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Legal Tribune Online, LTO @lto-de.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Durchsuchungsbeschlüsse gegen die Zeit-Redaktion - um Podcast-Material zum Block-Prozess zu finden, geht das rechtlich? www.lto.de/recht/nachri...
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Gericht erlässt Durchsuchungsbeschluss gegen Zeit-Redaktion
Durchsuchungsbeschlüsse für Redaktion und Wohnung einer Journalistin, um Podcast-Material zu bekommen – geht das rechtlich?
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“Another US president would be pressuring Russia to stop slaughtering innocents. Trump is instead giving them the means to kill more.” Me on Trump’s darkest turn yet against Ukraine. as.ft.com/r/0f7ee7f8-3...
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Why Trump is going for Zelenskyy’s jugular
No matter how much America’s allies urge the president to back Ukraine, he cannot forgive its leader for showing up his dealmaking impotence
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Florian Flade @florianflade.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🚨 Heute rückten Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft bei den Kolleginnen und Kollegen der @zeitonline an. Und verlangten die Herausgabe von Tonaufzeichnungen von Interviews. | #Pressefreiheit #Journalismus #Hamburg
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
While Witkoff and Kushner say they would not benefit from the Lukoil sale, the deal reeks of conflicts of interest at best and outright corruption at worst. It is emblematic of the de facto Trump Doctrine — mixing private and public interests to an unprecedented degree. wapo.st/47gE6Rf
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Opinion | ‘Dollar diplomacy’ doesn’t work. Yet Trump keeps using it.
Trump administration pursuit of profit and peace blurs line between public and private interests.
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@funkygiesing.bsky.social @funkygiesing.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#JakobSchubert wiederholt „DNA“ – die erste bestätigte 9c der Klettergeschichte www.lacrux.com/klettern/jak...
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Jakob Schubert wiederholt „DNA“ – die erste bestätigte 9c der Klettergeschichte
Hunderte Zuschauer sahen zu, als der Tiroler den Umlenker von Seb Bouins "DNA" in der Verdonschlucht klippte. Mit seiner Live-Begehung kreierte Schubert einen Klettermoment, der in die Geschichtsbüche...
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Peter Ahrens @peterahrens.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Die Hinrichtungen sollen auch nach Trump benannt werden.
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Some of the most fascinating revelations were about the $1bn art collection that Abramovich amassed and how majority beneficial ownership was transferred to his ex-wife, Dasha Zhukova, shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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Roman Abramovich aides falsified paperwork to disguise assets and dodge tax, records suggest
Accountancy firm Deloitte Cyprus among those that appear to have backdated records outlining the Russian billionaire’s assets
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We also uncovered how Abramovich used secret offshore companies to pay agents in apparent connection with the landmark transfers that catapulted Chelsea to the top of world football. Both the FA and Premier League found the club broke the rules but imposed paltry fines.
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Chelsea FC face new questions over how Roman Abramovich funded success
Leaked files reveal secret payments that may have breached football’s strict ‘financial fair play’ rules
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Latest in a three-year-long seam of reporting by the Guardian, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, the BBC and international media partners. The project, known as Cyprus Confidential, was co-led by the ICIJ and Paper-Trail Media, based on documents first shared by Distributed Denial of Secrets.
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Roman Abramovich aides falsified paperwork to disguise assets and dodge tax, records suggest
Accountancy firm Deloitte Cyprus among those that appear to have backdated records outlining the Russian billionaire’s assets
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 12/10/2026
🔵EXCLUSIVE: Leaked files containing years’ worth of email correspondence and financial records show how Deloitte Cyprus worked with other firms managing Roman Abramovich’s wealth to move vast assets from Cyprus to the BVI, including cash deposits in banks, superyachts, and luxury homes.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Everyone continues to underestimate the Houthis’ military power...suddenly these guys in flip-flops can double or triple your winter heating bills.” www.ft.com/content/bd2c...
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Houthis show military reach with deadly missile strikes on Riyadh
Yemen’s Iran-backed militants have evolved from insurgency into potent armed force
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@funkygiesing.bsky.social @funkygiesing.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Gute und gut geschriebene Biografie! Wo die Quellenlage dünn ist (z. B. Kindheitsjahre), arbeitet der Autor geschickt und sehr abgewogen mit indirekten Bezügen, mit zeitgeschichtl. Kontext, mit autobiographischen Spiegelungen im Werk der #IrmgardKeun. www.rowohlt.de/buch/tobias-...
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Keine von uns - Tobias Lehmkuhl | Rowohlt Verlag
Als Ereignis gilt Irmgard Keun, als sie 1931 die literarische Bühne betritt. Mit Mitte zwanzig wird sie über Nacht zum Star, schafft mit «Gilgi – eine von...
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 11/10/2026
Western intelligence agencies have warned Europe’s defence bosses that Russia is stepping up efforts to assassinate them, prompting companies to increase personal security around their top executives ft.trib.al/vRLYPxh
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 11/10/2026
Lethal missile strikes on Riyadh’s international airport over the past week have demonstrated the growing military power of Yemen’s Houthi rebels, who have evolved from an insurgency into one of the Middle East’s most formidable non-state armed forces ft.trib.al/QFQR3qJ
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Christopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 08/10/2026
A Russian glide bomb killed dozens of Ukrainians at a bus stop Kramatorsk on Thursday, in one of the deadliest attacks on civilians in recent months. Two buses were hit by the bomb during rush hour, killing at least 30 people and injuring 18, according to Ukraine’s state emergency service.
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Russian bomb attack kills dozens at Ukraine bus stop
At least 30 die after aerial strike hits two passenger buses in frontline city of Kramatorsk
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Luke Harding @lukeharding1968.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump's latest extraordinary betrayal of Ukraine
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Janis Kluge @jakluge.de · 08/10/2026
Russia still recruits around 1,000 men per day, according to the latest data from September. Under pressure to fulfil their quotas, Russian regions are very inventive. They try whatever works and copy what works elsewhere. The trend this year is payments to intermediaries.
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Janis Kluge @jakluge.de · 08/10/2026
Official picture from Putin's birthday party. Source: Kremlin t.me/news_kremlin...
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"In this building lived and worked journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Killed 7 October 2006"
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The Insider @theins.press · 08/10/2026
The GRU’s dud drone: How Russian intelligence botched a sabotage plot at Leipzig airport The latest investigation from @christogrozev.bsky.social and @dobrokhotov.bsky.social finds direct evidence of the GRU’s involvement and IDs additional operatives not previously named.
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The GRU’s dud drone: How Russian intelligence botched a sabotage plot at Leipzig airport
Following the failed sabotage operation at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport in early August, many media outlets, citing sources in law enforcement, named some…
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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 08/10/2026
Ermittler meinen zu wissen, wer den Leipziger Flughafen mit Drohnen angegriffen hat. Ihren Auftrag erhielten die Verdächtigen laut SPIEGEL-Recherchen wohl von einer Spezialeinheit des russischen Geheimdienstes für Sabotage im Westen.
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Leipziger Flughafen: Das sollen die Männer hinter der Drohnen-Attacke sein
Ermittler meinen zu wissen, wer den Leipziger Flughafen mit Drohnen angegriffen hat. Ihren Auftrag erhielten die Verdächtigen laut SPIEGEL-Recherchen wohl von einer Spezialeinheit des russischen Geheimdienstes für Sabotage im Westen.
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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 08/10/2026
Der frühere BND-Chef August Hanning sitzt in Untersuchungshaft. Warum das für den Geheimdienst extrem heikel ist: Einschätzungen von SPIEGEL-Redakteur Matthias Gebauer.
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August Hanning: Warum die Festnahme ein Problem für den BND ist
Der frühere BND-Chef August Hanning sitzt in Untersuchungshaft. Warum das für den Geheimdienst extrem heikel ist: Einschätzungen von SPIEGEL-Redakteur Matthias Gebauer.
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Hans Huett @hanshuett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Der erwischte BND-Präsident a.D. war ein Beifang!
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@funkygiesing.bsky.social @funkygiesing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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From Iran to the U.K., Trump Is Being Forced Into Retreat
A war that was intended to demonstrate the reach of American power has now done the opposite. It is a lesson in unintended consequences.
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Thomas Vorreyer @vorreyer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So sieht er aus, der erste Antrag von AfD und BSW in #SachsenAnhalt. Die Unterstützung der Ukraine wird nicht an einen Frieden geknüpft, sondern sie soll sich weniger wehren können, während Russland ganz ohne Bedingungen wieder normale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen bekommen soll.
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Hans-Martin Tillack @hmtillack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Undurchsichtige Firmenstrukturen und Spuren nach Russland - über die mit August Hanning verbundene Firmengruppe System 360 hatte ich erstmals Anfang 2020 geschrieben www.stern.de/politik/deut...
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Hans-Martin Tillack @hmtillack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Vor fünf Jahren hatte ich berichtet, dass Hanning wegen seiner Rolle als Aufsichtsratsmitglied einer Bank in Lettland die Pfändung von Vermögenswerten und Teilen seiner Pension drohte www.welt.de/politik/deut...
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Ex-BND-Chef August Hanning droht Pfändung - WELT
Dem früheren BND-Chef August Hanning droht die Pfändung einer Immobilie, von Firmenanteilen und einem Teil der Pension. Unter seiner Aufsicht war eine Bank in Lettland in die Insolvenz geschlittert. J...
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Florian Flade @florianflade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
News🚨Ex-BND-Chef Hanning und festgenommen. Sein ehemaliger Büroleiter (auch festgenommen) soll ihm noch bis 2022 geheime Dokumente aus dem #BND verschafft haben. Landeten sie bei fremden Mächten? Unsere Recherche: www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/hann... #Geheimdienste #Spionage #Justiz #BKA #GBA
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Affäre beim BND: Ex-Geheimdienstchef Hanning wegen Spionageverdacht festgenommen
Der frühere Präsident des Bundesnachrichtendienstes August Hanning ist festgenommen worden. Es bahnt sich einer der großen Spionagefälle der Bundesrepublik an.
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 06/10/2026
If these media reports are accurate, we're looking at one of the worst espionage scandals in German history. And it comes at an especially bad time - not just because of the broader geopolitical situation but also because the BND is about to get a lot more powerful
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 06/10/2026
And if it isn't Russian, did the information make its way to Russia anyway? Or China? Or Iran? And if a "friendly" intelligence agency bought the "analyses," what does that mean for Germany's relationship with that country going forward?
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 06/10/2026
More detail: German media says this went on "at least" until 2022, so we don't know how long it actually went on. Maybe until 2022, maybe until 2026. Plus, the unnamed intelligence service I mentioned above isn't Russian. Which begs the question: Who is it?
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 06/10/2026
In the intelligence world, this is pretty close to the worst-case scenario (if true). Friendly intelligence agencies give information to the BND, a senior BND official sells it to the former BND chief and he then turns around and gives it to whoever. It could be worse, but not much
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 06/10/2026
And it gets worse: Of the roughly 2,000 classified documents that he received, many were briefings for the Chancellery. Topics included Russia's military and the Iranian nuclear programme and according to the media, some of the information came from friendly intelligence agencies
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 06/10/2026
Not only did Germany's former spy chief allegedly pay for the classified information, he then supposedly used it to create analyses for another (unnamed) foreign intelligence agency. Further, he used some of the information when talking to a foreign agent. This is bad, bad, bad. Very bad.
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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 06/10/2026
The former boss of Germany's most important intelligence agency, the BND, has been arrested on suspicion of treason.
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