Germans 'spied' for US in Iraq

[Judi Lynn]

Germans 'spied' for US in Iraq
From: Agence France-Presse From correspondents in Berlin
January 29, 2006

GERMAN intelligence officials informed the United States at least 15 times on developments in Iraq following requests by Washington, a news report said amid controversy over Germany's role in the conflict to which it was officially opposed.

"On 33 occasions, the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) asked the BND (Germany's foreign intelligence agency) questions, requesting help," said the news magazine Der Spiegel in its Monday edition.
The BND replied to about half of these requests and asked its two agents in Iraq to dig up the information, the magazine said.

But the agency would not comply in the rest of cases as the requested information was liable to directly help the US military campaign, to which the government of former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was officially opposed.

Der Spiegel said that of the 130 notes the two German agents sent to BND headquarters at the time, 25 were passed on to Washington. At least one of the documents had a military content as it concerned troop movements.
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