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The Federal Intelligence Service (German: Bundesnachrichtendienst, pronounced [ˌbʊndəsˈnaːχʁɪçtnˌdiːnst] ⓘ; BND) is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinate to the Chancellor's Office.
- 6,500 (2019)
- German Chancellery
- 1 April 1956; 67 years ago
The Bundesnachrichtendienst is the foreign intelligence service of the Federal Republic of Germany, compiling political, economic and military foreign intelligence.
Secret State Police (German: Geheime Staatspolizei): Secret police of Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. Secret Field Police (GFP) (German: Geheime Feldpolizei): Secret military police of the Wehrmacht. Security Service (SD) (German: Sicherheitsdienst): Intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party. See also: Reich Security Main Office
BND, foreign intelligence agency of the West German government. Created in April 1956, it absorbed the “Gehlen Organization,” a covert intelligence force which was created by Major General Reinhard Gehlen after World War II and which cooperated with U.S. intelligence agencies.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Abwehr (German for resistance or defence, though the word usually means counterintelligence in a military context; pronounced [ˈapveːɐ̯]) was the German military-intelligence service for the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht from 1920 to 1945.
- 1920–1945
- Wilhelm Canaris
What We Do. Collecting Information. Intelligence services are allowed to do what is illegal for everybody else: spying. Only very few entities, all of them government authorities, are allowed to spy, i.e. use intelligence methods.
The Federal Intelligence Service (German: Bundesnachrichtendienst, pronounced [ ˌbʊndəsˈnaːχʁɪçtnˌdiːnst] ⓘ; BND) is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinate to the Chancellor's Office. The BND headquarters is located in central Berlin. The BND has 300 locations in Germany and foreign countries.
