Project 6
As Project 6 (P6) one of 2005 carried out by 2010 secret operation of the German Federal Intelligence Service , the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the American CIA called, whose aim was, in a database PX information on jihadists , terrorist supporters and members of the Islamist milieus to collect.
The operation was revealed in September 2013 by the news magazine Der Spiegel . According to Spiegel, the NDR journalist Stefan Buchen, who specializes in investigative journalism, was also targeted during the secret operation because he had telephoned an Islamist preacher in Yemen during his research and had visited Afghanistan several times. He had appeared in US documents in 2010 with his passport and mobile phone number and his date of birth.
Around 1100 pieces of information from almost 200 people were stored in the database, but the hard drives were destroyed after the end of the project in 2010 according to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. According to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the database used was made available by the USA, but had no technical connection to the IT infrastructure of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. According to the office, the input and access to the data was carried out by constitutional protection officers and not by employees of the CIA. Der Spiegel questioned this representation because, according to its information, CIA employees worked with their German colleagues for years from a legendary apartment in Neuss.
The parliamentary oversight committee was informed about the project 6, according to According to Protection of the Constitution on 12 August 2013, thus after the first mirror requests to the competent authorities.
Data protection and political discussion
The Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar criticized the lack of transparency of the operation. The database was unknown to him. He said that in such a project, all activities would have to be logged and subjected to data protection controls.
The Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger called for a fundamental reform of the security architecture in relation to the secret service cooperation with the USA. Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said that the control of the German intelligence services must be given a legal clarification that prevents inadmissible institutionalized cooperation between the Federal Intelligence Service and foreign services. She also opposes the Federal Ministry of the Interior with her criticism . There they rejected any criticism of Project 6.
Individual evidence
- ^ Veit Medick: PX database: CIA and German services operated a secret project on Spiegel Online for many years from September 8, 2013; Retrieved September 9, 2013
- ↑ a b "Project 6": Federal Minister of Justice wants to ban shared databases , Spiegel Online from September 10, 2013, accessed on September 11, 2013