Martin Jäger

So he came back to the BND, and then he served as the personal assistant to several, um, follow-up heads of the BND.

For example, Gerhard Schindler, Bruno Kahl, up to the now new head of the BND, Martin Jäger.

He was also his personal assistant in the, in the beginning last year.

And then Manfred D also retired this year, and the allegations that were brought against these two is that, um, Manfred D is accused of providing, uh, documents, uh, including, um, documents that were classified, highly classified as, uh, secret, secret documents to Mr. Hanning, and that Mr. Hanning allegedly used them for his private security consultancy.

But yes, there will be...

This is, this is, uh, yeah, when it comes to trust, trust is probably the most important, uh, asset and most important, um, thing, uh, when it comes to intelligence cooperation.

That's even what the, the now head of the BND, Martin Jäger, said last Monday or Monday last week, um, uh, in, in parliament, in a parliament hearing.

Uh, he said, "Partners need to trust us.

And Zakharova, what she said about all of these things, she was talking about Italy.

There was a question about this German intelligence chief, a guy named Martin Jaeger, and the Baltic and the invented reality of war.

So the next question was, he asked about the German foreign intelligence chief, Martin Yeager warning that confrontation with Russia had entered another dangerous phase and that the Russian shadow war against European democracy has been going on for a long time.

And his suggestion is that Russia's going to begin low-intensity military actions inside the Baltic states.

Yeah, which is really bad.

And it came at a particularly bad time for the current head of the BND, which is a man called Martin Jäger, because the day before this came out, he gave a briefing to the parliament in which he said... because the BND is currently getting its powers expanded by the new government because they want to have a more powerful secret service.

Because apparently the BND is a bit restricted in Germany.

It's

And then it kind

of came out that they'd been really leaky.

That was really bad for Martin Jäger.

That's not good.

These comparisons help identify vulnerability, but they do not establish Hanning's guilt.

Current BND chief Martin Jaeger says the service conducted extensive internal investigations before federal prosecutors took over.

German parliamentarian Konstantin von Notz has also raised concerns about the lobbying and commercial activities of former senior officials, warning that these relationships can provide openings for hostile intelligence services.

The central lesson in this case is that retirement changes employee status, but it does not erase knowledge, relationships, or an obligation to protect classified information.