Consolidated Intelligence Center
The Consolidated Intelligence Center ( CIC , German: United Intelligence Center ) in Wiesbaden is an intelligence facility of the US Army Europe under construction , on the grounds of the Lucius D. Clay barracks in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim , formerly Wiesbaden Army Airfield , about eight kilometers southeast of Wiesbaden city center. According to the US Army, the purpose of the facility is to support the US armed forces with tactical theater of war support and strategic intelligence functions. This also indicates that data fusion will take place at this location .
construction
2012 The army announced the construction of an intelligence center ( Consolidated Intelligence Center ) for 91 million US dollars and an information processing center ( Information Processing Center or Gray Center on) for 30.4 million US dollars.
The construction companies involved must have security checks, the building materials are imported from the USA and monitored on the way to Germany.
The center should contain a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) for information with different degrees of confidentiality . The cost of this is $ 33.8 million.
Headquarters Public Affairs spokesman Bob Close confirmed that construction should be completed by the end of 2015.
The staff of the Dagger complex in Griesheim is also to be relocated here. This includes around 1,100 "Intelligence Professionals" (intelligence officers) and "Special Security Officers" (security officers).
In connection with the surveillance and espionage affair initiated by Edward Snowden in 2013 , Der Spiegel reported on July 7, 2013 that the facility would also be used by the NSA . Use by the NSA was denied by the US Army in July 2013. The President of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Gerhard Schindler , confirmed to the Bundestag Interior Committee that it was a wiretapping center of the US secret service NSA.
At the beginning of 2013, OBG Engineering was awarded the contract for the planning and construction of a multi-storey car park for the Consolidated Intelligence Center with 600 parking spaces and a multifunctional sports field ( baseball , football , soccer ).
reception
Ulla Jelpke , domestic political spokeswoman for the Left Party's parliamentary group , said that by accepting an NSA surveillance center in Wiesbaden, the federal government was making itself “an accomplice in one of the biggest spying scandals in the history of the Federal Republic”.
The SPD and the Greens in the Hessian state parliament demand clarification from Interior Minister Boris Rhein ( CDU ) about the control center.
Felix Kisseler, deputy chairman of the Green parliamentary group in the Wiesbaden Council, described it as a "scandal" if a wiretapping center were to be built in the immediate vicinity of DE-CIX , the world's most heavily used Internet hub , in Frankfurt.
According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine, the state government of Hesse is also not informed about the purpose of the facility. According to the journal from June 2014, a request was sent to the federal government.
See also
- Surveillance and espionage affair 2013
- Shali Center
- Egelsbach Transmitter Facility
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency at the Nathan Hale Depot in Darmstadt, Security and Counterintelligence Field Office Europe (until 2008)
literature
- John Pendleton, Defense Planning: DoD Needs to Review the Costs and Benefits of Basing Alternatives for Army Forces in Europe. DIANE Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4379-3950-7 ( Online in Google Books )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Y - Consruction of a Consolidated Intelligence Center (CIC) at Wiesbaden Army Airfield (WAAF), Germany - Federal Business Opportunities: Opportunities .
- ^ US Army Public Affairs Office; Statement regarding US Army Europe Consolidated Intelligence Center ( Memento of the original from June 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; US Army statement of July 18, 2013.
- ↑ a b Mark Patton: Wiesbaden military community spotlights completed projects. Published: June 14, 2012 ( online )
- ^ Jacob Corbin: Transformation managed: Directorate closes after 8 years of hard work. US Army, August 12, 2015, accessed July 10, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Interview with Edward Snowden: NSA supplies BND with tools for eavesdropping on Spiegel Online from July 7, 2013
- ↑ Information about funds for the Consolidated Intelligence Center from the Ministry of Defense ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.6 MB) () (see also on Wikipedia Commons )
- ^ Wiesbaden US Army: NSA activities in Erbenheim Frankfurter Rundschau Online, July 10, 2013
- ↑ Homepage of the US Army from September 26, 2008: Wiesbaden: Upgrades, new facilities transforming garrison ( archive )
- ↑ Listening friends . July 10, 2013.
- ↑ US Army denies Spiegel report: No NSA base in Wiesbaden - "New building no secret project" ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Wiesbaden Courier from July 7, 2013
- ↑ New NSA eavesdropping center: US secret service also wants to spy out of Wiesbaden in future Spiegel Online from July 18, 2013
- ↑ n24.de: NSA builds control center in Wiesbaden , July 18, 2013
- ↑ OBG Group: OBG Engineering - OBG .
- ↑ NSA is building, not from Arnold Schölzel, Junge Welt , July 19, 2013
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH: NSA soon in Wiesbaden ?: Opposition complains of American "spying madness" . 19th July 2013.
- ↑ Wiesbaden: Further uncertainty about NSA listening center - BND denies confirmation ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Manfred Knispel, Wiesbadener Kurier, July 18, 2013
- ↑ a b Peter Badenhop (2014) Ahnungslos in Wiesbaden ; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from June 23, 2014.
- ↑ Defense Privacy and Civil Liberties Office: DoD Component Notices: Defense Threat Reduction Agency ( Memento of the original of February 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ()
- ↑ US Embassy Cables: Delivery of ground transportation cargo inventory lists to Russia ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ()
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 34 " N , 8 ° 19 ′ 40" E