(Excerpt in English)
"FOCUS: BKA cross-examines presumed Mossad agent - guidance officers in the Israeli embassy in Berlin - Verfassungsschutz (german agency for protection of the constitution) conceals investigation against suspicious Mossad recruitment in German security authorities
Munich. The German counter-espionage is currently investigating obviously illegal intelligence-activities of the Israeli secret service Mossad in the Federal Republic of Germany, the news magazine FOCUS reports. On Thursday of this week officials of the Federal Criminal Investigation Office in Thuringia are said to have cross-examined a Palestinian because of the suspicion of secret intelligence activity, acknowledged the spokeswoman of the Bundesanwaltschaft (the highest federal prosecution-office), Oberstaatsanwaeltin (High Prosecutioner) Frauke-Katrin Scheuten to FOCUS. The presumed agent is controlled according to FOCUS by a secret Mossad unit, which is stationed in Berlin at the Israeli embassy. Mrs. Scheuten neither wanted to acknowledge nor to deny the involvement of the Mossad. The investigations in this case of espionage are still going on, she said. According to FOCUS this Palestinian is to have already operated in Lebanon for the Israeli foreign secret service. After moving to Germany the man was re-activated. In first interrogations he admitted his connection to the Mossad.
Berlin safety experts fear, according to FOCUS, that investigations against the Palestinian`s guidance-officers camouflaged as diplomats could lead to disharmony in the German-Israeli relations . As FOCUS continues to announce, the Cologne Federal Office for protection of the constitution (BfV) holds extensive files over two more illegal Mossad agents in Germany under lock. In both cases in the middle and end of the 90's, the Israeli secret service had established illegal contacts to members of german security authorities, FOCUS reports with reference to confidential documents available to its editors. This scandal effected the Federal Office for protection of the constitution (BfV) as well as the department for protection of the constitution of the North-Rhine/Westphalian ministry of the Interior. As a result the BfV-president at that time Eckart Werthebach had ordered a Mossad general from Tel Aviv to Germany and even threatened to engage the Federal Prosecutor's Office."
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