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Former Top Spy Arrested For Treason, Selling Intel To Foreign Power

Republican Ledger staff · 11:51 AM ET

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Germany’s former foreign intelligence chief was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of espionage and attempted treason in an alleged scheme involving roughly 2,000 internal intelligence documents. August Hanning, who led the Federal Intelligence Service, known by its German acronym BND, from 1998 to 2005, allegedly obtained confidential material from a former aide and used it in ...

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