BND branch in Bad Aibling

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Property of the former Bad Aibling station with radomes .

The BND branch in Bad Aibling is a satellite recording point of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in Bad Aibling, Upper Bavaria . It consists of two properties , the former Bad Aibling Station with several radomes and satellite dishes and the former Mangfall barracks .

task

The BND uses the system to clear up telecommunications from all over the world. It can be used to intercept telephone calls , faxes , e-mails and other IP- mediated communication transmitted by satellite . The main task is the protection of soldiers of the Bundeswehr on their missions abroad , the so-called "force protection". The antennas in Bad Aibling capture as many satellites as possible in their field of view. The communication running through this is only recorded in the per mille range. The data is then filtered according to various criteria, including according to the rules of Article 10 Law and in order to automatically delete recorded communications from Germans before manual evaluation. Selectors are used to find relevant content. These can be phone numbers , email addresses , etc. If the programs find relevant communication content based on these selectors, they are presented to a clerk with appropriate language skills. If he thinks they are also relevant, he creates a "preliminary notification product" which is sent for evaluation. The Bad Aibling branch should listen primarily to the Middle East , Afghanistan and Africa , the countries where the Bundeswehr is deployed. It should be possible to detect 13 communication satellites with 180 transmission routes. This should result in 23 million raw data per hour.

Legend

Military coat of arms for legend

Until 2014, the branch was legendary as the " Telecommunications Long-Distance Office of the Bundeswehr " (" FmWVStBw ") . The alleged military service of the Bundeswehr should belong to the organizational area of ​​the Armed Forces Base. As part of the BND transparency offensive, it was officially declared a branch office. Other camouflage names are said to have been "Object Orion", "Seeland-Torfstich" and, from the American side, "SIGAD US 987-LA and LB", where "SIGAD" stands for " Signals Intelligence Activity Designator". The BND-internal abbreviation should be "3 D 30".

history

On September 30, 2004, the Americans withdrew from the Bad Aibling station and handed it over to the BND. For the time being, 20 US employees were left for technical operations. The BND reduced the property from 134 to one hectare. The German Armed Forces had left the Mangfall barracks, which was around 10 hectares in size, at the end of 2002, whereupon the property was taken over by the BND. First of all, in connection with the entire move of the BND to Berlin, parts of the Technical Reconnaissance Department (TA) were to move to Bad Aibling. However, the department remained in Pullach .

On the basis of an agreement from 2002, the BND in Bad Aibling cooperated with the National Security Agency (NSA). The BND branch in Bad Aibling was named in the course of the global surveillance and espionage affair. The NSA committee of inquiry was set up for this purpose.

As part of the cooperation between the BND and the National Security Agency (NSA), as "Joint SIGINT was called Activity" ( "JSA") and on an as classified information with the classification level of classified TOP SECRET " Memorandum of Understanding " / Agreement of 2002 was based, data from the BND was stored on an NSA server in Bad Aibling . The JSA ceased to exist in 2012. In the BND branch, the NSA had a liaison office called “Special US Liaison Activity Germany” (“SUSLAG”). In 2014 she had around ten liaison employees in her own building in the Mangfall barracks property, who could help with technical problems and arrange contacts with NSA headquarters.

In the branch office, on behalf of the NSA, EU member states and organs of the EU are said to have been informed about the political evaluation. From the beginning of May 2015, no Internet traffic should have been monitored on behalf of the NSA, because the NSA did not provide the required reasons for the persons and institutions to be monitored. Since 2016, German and US secret services have resumed their cooperation in the listening station. The system is considered to be central to the monitoring of crisis countries such as Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Libya.

See also

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Bad Aibling - Federal Intelligence Service reveals its own listening station. In: Spiegel Online . June 3, 2014, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b BND takes over the US listening station in Bad Aibling. In: Spiegel Online . December 19, 2003. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c Scouting affair leads to Bad Aibling. In: Upper Bavarian Volksblatt . August 5, 2013. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b Georg Mascolo , John Goetz: BND: The surveillance factory. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 1, 2015, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b NSA locations in Germany Bad Aibling. In: Spiegel Online . June 18, 2014, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Andre Meister: Secret test report: The BND breaks the law and constitution a dozen times - in Bad Aibling alone (updates). In: Netzpolitik.org . September 1, 2016, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Wolfram Göll: Secret Service Control - An expert should fix it. In: Bayernkurier . August 26, 2015, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  9. ^ Secret facility in Swabia: BND press office ignores all questions. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 3, 2013, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  10. ↑ NSA data monitoring - Federal government continues to investigate allegations. In: Federal Government . August 7, 2013, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Relocation to the Oberland: Now the BND wants to listen. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 19, 2010. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Espionage - 200 US secret service agents officially spy in Germany. In: Spiegel Online . June 15, 2014, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  13. ^ Georg Mascolo: Secret Service Affair: BND helped NSA to spy out France and the EU Commission. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 29, 2015. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Silence due to an affair? BND allegedly no longer provides Americans with network data. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . May 7, 2015, accessed October 28, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Hans Leyendecker and Georg Mascolo: Secret Service Affair: BND stops Internet surveillance for NSA. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Bad Aibling listening system: BND and NSA are cooperating again . In: merkur.de . January 8, 2016. Accessed January 10, 2020.

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