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August Hanning argues that rising anti-Jewish activity in Germany is not simply the province of the far-right

Germany is “naive” and needs to wake up to the realities of war, the country’s former spy chief has said.

Germany is “naive” and needs to wake up to the realities of war, the country’s former spy chief has said.

August Hanning tells The Telegraph how pacifism that has shaped his country since the end of the Second World War has left it vulnerable

August Hanning, the former president of Germanys foreign intelligence agency, the BND, finds himself in the spotlight once again. Reporting by DER SPIEGEL has unveiled a series of questionable advisory engagements he has undertaken since leaving public office.

August Hanning (pictured) and Gerhard Schindler, former chiefs of the German intelligence service BND, wrote that German spy agencies were suffering under an excess of oversight.

EU superpower’s inefficient intelligence community is a ‘sprawling bureaucracy of control’, two former chiefs insist

John le Carré’s “A Private Spy” is now haunted by two ghosts—the father and the son.

“A Private Life,” a collection of correspondence spanning much of his life, offers a fresh look at his brilliance — and his contradictions

Moscow stands most to benefit from the sabotage of North Sea pipelines, Gerhard Schindler said.