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German Intelligence Agencies

Bundesamt für den Verfassungsschutz (BfV)
Federal intelligence and security service

Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND)
Federal foreign intelligence and security service

Bundeskriminalamt (BKA)
Federal criminal intelligence and security service
Note: BKA is a federal police unit, which by German law must not be mingled with intelligence services so as not to create a new "GeStaPo."

Amt für den Militärischen Abschirmdienst (MAD)
Federal military intelligence and security service

Resources

• Germany's intelligence reform: More surveillance, modest restraints and inefficient controls by Dr. Thorsten Wetzling, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, June 2017
• The key to intelligence reform in Germany: Strengthening the G 10-Commission's role to authorise strategic surveillance by Dr. Thorsten Wetzling, Stiftung Neue Verantwortung, 2016
• Geheime Nachrichtendienste und Funkaufklärung im Zweiten Weltkrieg by Günther K. Weisse
• German Left-Wing Crime Increase Adds to Public Security Concerns, Open Source Center, April 27, 2010

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