“Exploited state secrets for profit”: German intelligence is rocked by the espionage arrest of a former chief.

Sven Becker, Jürgen Dahlkamp, Jan Friedmann, Astrid Geisler, Matthias Gebauer, Christoph Giesen, Claas Meyer-Heuer, Hannes Munzinger, Nicola Naber, Christopher Piltz, Sven Röbel, Marcel Rosenbach, Fidelius Schmid, Timo Schober, Sara Wess, Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt   Der Spiegel   8 October 2026
The arrest of ex-BND chief August Hanning has sent shockwaves through the intelligence world. Yet Hanning’s dubious consulting work was no secret.

Does German intelligence have a systemic problem?