Angela Merkel's government today confirmed the dismissal of the head of the Federal Information Service (BND), the German Secret Service Abroad, Gerhard Schindler, after successive scandals over alleged Objectives You hear a allies.
Minister of the Foreign Ministry, Peter Altmaier, responsible for the intelligence services, reported that the EESC, advanced yesterday afternoon Several Media, will take effect on July 1.
In replacement of Schindler, head of the Secret Service since 2012, will be Named Bruno Kahl, CURRENTLY department head at the Ministry of Finance and considered a confidant of Wolfgang Schäuble.
Altmaier recalled that the BND faces major challenges in the years around affecting all areas of work and must adapt to the changing political context and security, which requires improvement of its human resources and technology.
The minister stressed: In addition to the Need Making organizational changes and assume the "Legal consequences" arising from the Parliamentary Research Commission Established in the Bundestag to clarify the large-scale espionage US One Citizens and allied countries.
The alleged massive spying of the US National Security Agency (NSA), ex analist uncovered by the CIA Edward Snowden, even went to Mobile Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and caused serious problems in the transatlantic axis.
The president, Barack Obama, apologized and said that stories would not be repeated practices.
Last year, the committee Amplio Do Campo: research by filtering services that own secrets Germans might have spied one its partners in the EU and a US targets.
According to reports, the BND had been using its center in Bad Aibling (Bavaria) catch data used by the National Security Agency (NSA) spying for US European allies Systems.
Following that scandal came Likewise, a shine that BNA had detected and deleted 12,000 catches by their US counterparts, with email addresses and other data for allegedly spying one or Governors and European diplomats.