@Walter Hinteler,
German authorities have arrested double agent working for the US who is thought has spied on the Bundestag’s inquiry into claims of US surveillance.
In a statement, Germany’s federal attorney-general said a 31-year-old German national had been arrested on Wednesday.
The claims that the arrested BND employee was a US spy were first reported in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and by the broadcasters NDR and WDR. Spiegel Online reported that the man worked in the mailroom of the BND*, Germany’s foreign intelligence agency. [This "mailroom" is commonly known as "Geheimregistratur" (
secret registry).]
The German parliamentary committee investigating the NSA said on Thursday it would adjourn to discuss the arrest.
(From FT, Bloomberg and reuters.)
The "US contact person" has been observed as well - it is not known to the "usually well informed sources" to which of many US secret agencies he's attached to.
Merkel informed Obama in a phone call yesterday about it.
(This double-spy at first offered his "services" to Russia - they didn't want him.)