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Germany’s spy agency comes in from the cold

Berlin wants to loosen the shackles on the BND as part of a Europe-wide drive to reduce dependence on US intelligence

Modern Germany has never been at ease with spies.

The ghosts of two totalitarian regimes — Adolf Hitler’s Nazi state and East Germany — still hang over public debate and government deliberations about agents, surveillance and intelligence gathering.

The BND — the country’s intelligence agency and one of the biggest in Europe — has sometimes seemed so rule-bound that one former head compared his tenure to running a bureaucracy on the outer reaches of the German state.

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