{"id":9714,"date":"2015-07-04T08:48:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-04T13:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9714"},"modified":"2015-07-04T08:48:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-04T13:48:21","slug":"report-after-spying-operation-in-germany-cia-outed-suspected-leaker-to-retaliate-against-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9714","title":{"rendered":"Report: After Spying Operation in Germany, CIA Outed Suspected Leaker to Retaliate Against Journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Report: After Spying Operation in Germany, CIA Outed Suspected Leaker to Retaliate Against Journalists<\/a><\/h3>\n

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In the summer of 2011, the CIA station chief in Berlin asked\u00a0one of the most powerful intelligence officials in Germany to go on a private walk with him, the German newsmagazine\u00a0Der Spiegel<\/em>\u00a0reports. The American spy had an important message to convey: one of Germany\u2019s own senior officials\u00a0<\/span>was leaking information to the press.<\/p>\n

The suspected leaker, Hans Josef Vorbeck, had been in contact with\u00a0Spiegel<\/em>, the station chief\u00a0told the German official, G\u00fcnter Heiss. Head of Division 6, Heiss is responsible for coordinating Germany\u2019s intelligence services. Vorbeck was his deputy.<\/p>\n

At the time, Vorbeck was responsible for managing German counterterrorism efforts. Following the meet-up, Vorbeck was discreetly transferred to a less prestigious post, overseeing historical archives for the BND, Germany\u2019s foreign intelligence service.<\/p>\n

For four years, the conversation that led to Vorbeck\u2019s demotion remained secret. It has now become public, thanks largely to a German intelligence inquiry launched in the wake of Edward Snowden\u2019s historic leak of top-secret NSA documents.\u00a0The walk \u2014 and its implications for U.S.-German relations \u2014 were\u00a0detailed Friday<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Spiegel<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Obama administration officials told the magazine that the disclosure of the alleged communications between Vorbeck and its journalists was prompted by national security concerns. The fact that the Americans were willing to expose an ongoing surveillance operation underscored the seriousness of the threat posed by the leaks, sources in Washington told\u00a0Spiegel<\/em>. Intentionally or not, the sources said, the disclosure put the Germans on notice \u2014 the Americans were watching.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople around the world \u2014 regardless of their nationality \u2014 should know that the United States is not spying on ordinary people who don\u2019t threaten our national security,\u201d Ned Price, spokesperson for the National Security Council, said in a statement to\u00a0The Intercept<\/em>. \u201cWe also have made clear that we take their privacy concerns into account.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Report: After Spying Operation in Germany, CIA Outed Suspected Leaker to Retaliate Against Journalists In the summer of 2011, the CIA station chief in Berlin asked\u00a0one of the most powerful intelligence officials in Germany to go on a private walk with him, the German newsmagazine\u00a0Der Spiegel\u00a0reports. The American spy had an important message to convey: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,2621,4330,359,6985,6984,462,1494,746,765,793,5567],"class_list":["post-9714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-counterterrorism","tag-der-spiegel","tag-germany","tag-gunter-heiss","tag-hans-josef-vorbeck","tag-journalism","tag-press","tag-spying","tag-surveillance","tag-terrorism","tag-the-intercept"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9715,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9714\/revisions\/9715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}