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A German agent was to deliver information on Ukrainian positions to Moscow, according to Spiegel

2023-02-17T17:18:09.721Z


Since the war in Ukraine, Russian espionage activities in Germany have grown on a scale rarely equaled in recent years, according to the German security services.


A German intelligence agent arrested just before Christmas, and suspected of spying for Moscow, was to provide the Russian secret services with information on the artillery and anti-aircraft positions of the Ukrainian army, Der Spiegel said on Friday February

17

.

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According to the German weekly, this was information on the Iris-T missile shield system, supplied by Berlin to Ukraine after the Russian invasion and Himars rocket launcher systems, made available to Kiev by the USA.

Breaking into the Russian communication system

Focus

, another German weekly, believes for its part that this alleged spy, known as Carsten L., disclosed to Moscow secret accesses used by the German federal intelligence services (BND) to penetrate the communication system. Russian.

According to the first results of the

Spiegel

investigation, the Russian security services (FSB) asked Carsten L., arrested on December 22, to provide them through a suspected accomplice, arrested on January 26 , GPS data on the location of Iris-T missile shield systems and Himars rocket launchers.

But sources familiar with the investigation told the magazine that it was unlikely that such data was ultimately passed on.

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The German Attorney General, Peter Frank, is investigating for high treason against the two men, both of whom are remanded in custody.

Arthur E., who unlike Carsten L. is not an agent of the German intelligence services, allegedly delivered to the FSB, during two meetings in Moscow, secret BND material, secretly recovered by his accomplice.

Der Spiegel

understands that Moscow would have generously paid for these services: the investigators found in a locker of Carsten L. envelopes filled with banknotes worth several hundred thousand euros, transmitted by Arthur E. on behalf of the FSB.

BND officials assume that the FSB intended to work with the agent for a long time.

According to

Der Spiegel

, the latter drew attention to the BND with far-right views.

Since the war in Ukraine, Russian espionage activities in Germany have grown on a scale rarely equaled in recent years, according to the German security services.

Source: lefigaro

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