Contents tagged with German counterintelligence

  • German counterintelligence: Snowden is a part of Kremlin’s war against the West

    The President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution of Germany (counterintelligence), Hans-Georg Maassen, admits that ex-officer of the U.S. special services Edward Snowden is an agent of the Russian special services. Maassen made it clear that he has reasons to consider Snowden's activity a "part of the hybrid war led by Russia against the West".

    In turn, Snowden, in an interview with the Spiegel newspaper, claimed that he was not a Russian spy.

    "He [Maassen] did not …