Another example of Europe’s growing skepticism toward U.S. tech, especially in security-sensitive areas. Trust in the transatlantic relationship is eroding #AIVD #MIVD www.politico.eu/article/the-...

The #Bundesnachrichtendienst #BND as host: While spies were being trained in camouflaged facilities around Andechs in Upper Bavaria, there were also trips to the monastery - pork knuckle, liters of beer, and a legendary vomit basin

No amount of training can override French hormones. #DGSE recalled 6+ agents in past year for dating locals www.intelligenceonline.com/europe-russi...

Dr. Thomas Riegler @thomasriegler.bsky.social dives into Vienna’s intelligence hotspots and the stories behind them. Looks sharp, timely, and absolutely worth picking up.

More competences and powers for the German foreign intelligence service #BND. The new BND Act (current draft) could comprise 139 sections. Twice as many as before. Lengthy legislative process and implementation - a long road ahead www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

Breach of trust between close partners

Former #OrganisationGehlen (Org.) field station at Grolmanstraße 53, Berlin-Charlottenburg. This address appears in a 1954 roster of Org. facilities maintained by the U.S. Army’s #66th CIC Group 1/4

#CIA Director Ratcliffe’s visit to Brussels was clearly damage control - not a genuine trust-building initiative. European intel services have long been simmering with deep-seated mistrust toward Washington’s intel apparatus under Trump. This mistrust has become structural

Former #BND cover address at Vorderen Anger 214 in Landsberg am Lech in Upper Bavaria. In 1985/86, the address of a historic building in the heart of Landsberg's old town played an important role in an spy operation against the GDR trade mission in Düsseldorf 1/3

Demolition at the East Wing of the White House. The strong reinforcement of the ceiling structure stands out. Thick steel bars everywhere. The East Wing, built in 1942, mainly served to conceal the underground bunker (later known as PEOC) 1/2

For the first time, Dutch intelligence services publicly confirm that they are sharing less information with the USA. Diplomatically put: "That is being weighed." For this: Multilateral instead of bilateral EU intel structures 1/4 t.co/BVhreiKElO

Cover firms, foreign guests and students, global connections -  an unremarkable house at Gänselieselstraße 30 in Munich served for decades as a secret #BND school for partner intelligence services worldwide. A story about the secret “Oberhaus.” open.substack.com/pub/lecueill...

Veikko Palko, a retired counterintelligence expert from the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service (#Supo), won 61.2 million € in the Eurojackpot in 2014 and used part of it to fund anti-Russian espionage efforts during his retirement 1/6 www.hs.fi/tutkiva/art-...

Unnoticed by Western intelligence, the #Stasi built a secret “Stay Behind” network in West Germany. In Bavaria, a quiet chalet hid a commando bunker. Hidden depots. Sleeper agents and sabotage plans against NATO substack.com/@lecueilleur...

In the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, near the Polish border, Moscow #GRU is currently constructing the largest Circularly Disposed Antenna Array (CDAA) in the world. The array spans 1.6 kilometers in diameter, roughly four times the size of comparable Western systems. tochnyi.info/2025/08/puti...

Hidden in the ice for 80 years: Relics of the U.S. intelligence operation "Greenup" have been discovered on a Tyrolean glacier. It is considered one of the most successful #OSS espionage missions against Nazi Germany tirol.orf.at/stories/3323...

Former secret office of the US Army Military Intelligence Service MIS (1953–1961) at Thielallee 105 in Berlin-Dahlem. During this period, the #MIS (513th MI) was the operational arm of intelligence work in and around Berlin 1/3

Almost halftime at the world’s biggest folk festival. Munich’s #Oktoberfest2025 isn’t just beer and brass bands. It’s the world’s biggest spy “Stammtisch.” A story about it from my old (X) account👇 x.com/lcueilleur/s...

The Danish government is treating the drone sighting at Copenhagen Airport as a serious attack on Denmark’s critical infrastructure. Not without reason: located not far from the airport is the Sandagergårdan #SIGINT station 1/2 maps.app.goo.gl/5by4TobjGKi9...

In the mid-1950s, Dienststelle 62 was one of six major operational structures within the #OrganisationGehlen (Org.) in Germany. Its mandate focused on intelligence operations against the Soviet satellite states of Central and Eastern Europe 1/4

Cold War ghosts fueling Russia’s sabotage war against the West #GRU vsquare.org/revealed-how...

IAA MOBILITY in Munich: While the automotive industry struggles with sales crisis and job cuts, the trade fair becomes a hotspot for economic espionage. Batteries, software, supply chains - every detail is worth billions. Competitors and states are spying substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Hidden Heart of Radio Free Europe: Brienner Straße 3 in Munich. The #CIA’s nerve center for America’s covert Cold War operations. From here, the Free Europe Committee coordinated psychological warfare and exile networks open.substack.com/pub/lecueill...

Don't become a disposable spy for 100 euros - German intel services #BfV #BND warn: Foreign intelligence agencies are recruiting people via social media under false pretenses

Massive cyber warning: 23 intel and security agencies across 14 countries accuse China of running a global espionage system by hacking routers and telecom backbones media.defense.gov/2025/Aug/22/...

The lakes around Munich are popular sailing hotspots. The intelligence services knew this as well #CIA #BND open.substack.com/pub/lecueill...

On August 19, 1985, Hansjoachim Tiedge, a top counterintel official at West Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution #BfV, defected to the GDR. His move sparked one of the biggest intelligence scandals in the Federal Republic’s history 1/3 www.bundesarchiv.de/themen-entde...

According to US journalist Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss.bsky.social, Moscow requested 450 visas for the Trump-Putin meeting in Anchorage - far beyond diplomatic needs. From a Western view, such excess may signal not just symbolism but potential intelligence motives x.com/bulwarkonlin...

Possible highly effective counterintelligence tactic. Less freedom of movement and reduced opportunity to establish sensitive contacts or to place equipment - Bugging devices - unnoticed #SVR #GRU #FSB #Anchorage

All intelligence eyes and ears are on Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska. Putin and Trump are meeting there in a small, closed-door session. For a few hours, it will be a hotspot for #HUMINT #SIGINT #MASINT and #ACINT - with home-field advantage for the US 1/6

The #BND isn’t in the „technological Stone Age.“ The real challenge is making sense of the massive daily data flow. Something only human expertise can handle 1/2 www.bild.de/politik/sich...

Munich’s Hilton wasn’t just luxury. For decades, it was a spy hub for the #BND, #CIA and even Romanian #Securitate spies lecueilleur.substack.com/p/spy-addres...

The #BND , Munich, and the Defence Industry in the Cold War open.substack.com/pub/lecueill...

Between 1951 and 1955, in the heart of Munich’s city center at Kaufingerstraße 33 (now No. 2), the #OrganisationGehlen (Org.) operated a cover firm named „Karlheinz Schultz Kürschnerei“ 1/4

Boozing at the #BND Field Station in Islamabad, Pakistan, was extremely cheap in 1985: 12 crates of beer and 4 bottles of whiskey cost 1,875 (pRs) Pakistani Rupees. Equivalent of around 230€ in today’s money #Bundesnachrichtendienst

Pension Hotel Marie-Luise, Landwehrstraße 35 in Munich. In the early 1980s, the Pension Marie-Luise was more than just a place to stay. It served as an unofficial intersection between East German espionage #Stasi and West German domestic intelligence #BayLfV 1/6

Just 300 m from a Swedish military airport stands a Russian Orthodox church. Featuring an oversized dome, surveillance cameras, and a priest with reported ties to Russia’s #SVR intelligence service👇1/2 www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

The video about the 10th Special Forces in Bad Tölz in Bavaria shows interesting details about a training area of the Green Berets and #StayBehind operators during the Cold War - the Benediktenwand 1/5 x.com/thereconcast...

Joint disclosure by #AIVD, #MIVD (Netherlands) and #BND (Germany). A highly significant, rare, and unprecedented move by Western agencies. It is the first public joint statement of this kind on Russia’s systematic use of chemical weapons in Ukraine www.bnd.bund.de/DE/Service/P...

This villa at Spindelmühler Weg 27 in Berlin-Lichterfelde was home to a secret #CIC Counter Intelligence Corps operations centre in the mid-1950s. In addition to spying in the GDR and recruiting spies, the building had another task: tapping telephone lines 1/4

The #BND is facing a fundamental reorganisation. A new strategic direction and significantly more operational ambitions are required. The goal is a stronger, more independent and more assertive intelligence service 1/2 www.bild.de/politik/inla...

Russia uses religious and cultural institutions as part of its hybrid warfare. Especially to legitimise its alleged responsibility to protect Russian-speaking minorities abroad. But there is more 1/9 www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Open source intel #OSINT today can reveal secret military ops - like pizza orders. The “Pentagon Pizza Report” on X spotted a spike in Pentagon deliveries an hour before Iran reported explosions in Tehran. x.com/penpizzarepo...

The secret Stay Behind networks during the Cold War in Austria 1/2

Germany has missed the security policy ‚Zeitenwende‘ (turning point). Without clearly defined legal reforms and modernized structures, the intelligence services remain reactive rather than proactive in the fight against terrorism and espionage 1/2 www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/art...

Baracke 102 - The ‚Waldhaus‘ A wooden barrack on #BND grounds in Pullach. From 1956 until the early 2000s, it served as the spy agency’s central induction and training facility. Generations of German intelligence recruits passed through its doors 1/7

Former #MIS (U.S. Military Intelligence Service) office at Ringstraße 35 in Berlin-Lichterfelde. In the mid-1950s, the villa housed a major field station for espionage operations and the recruitment of individuals from the Soviet sector of Berlin and the surrounding area 1/4

"perhaps the worst I have seen in any cafeteria in a federal site … We are trapped here … contractor knows it“. A #CIA employee with nearly 30 years of federal service sharply criticizes the quality and variety of food in the cafeteria of a CIA field office (2015)

The secret #Kilowatt intelligence system linked Western intel agencies with Israel from 1971. It funneled data on Palestinians, safehouses, and movements. Enabling targeted killings across Europe by #Mossad, all without the knowledge of elected governments www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

For years, a secret French #Sûreté intelligence station operated at Müllerstraße 126a in Berlin's Wedding district. This covert operation was only exposed in 1959 when betrayed by a mole within their own ranks 1/9