Britain 'Threatens To Stop Sharing Intelligence' With Germany
British intelligence officials have threatened to stop sharing information if Germany presses ahead with a parliamentary inquiry into British and American spying, a German news magazine claims
By Justin Huggler, Berlin
2:32PM GMT 05 Feb 2015
British intelligence officials are so alarmed at a parliamentary inquiry into their activities in Germany that they have threatened to stop sharing information if it goes ahead.
According to a report in Focus magazine, British spy chiefs are worried that German politicians could reveal classified information about their joint projects, including details about code-breaking and technology. They fear a Europe-wide surveillance project that began last year, and includes British and German intelligence, could be comprised.
Germany is taking the threat, said to have been made by senior British officials, seriously. Gerhard Schindler, the head of Germany's federal intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) reportedly brief the parliamentary inquiry on the "unusually tense relations with British partner agencies" on Wednesday evening.
German intelligence depends on shared information from the UK, particularly when monitoring jihadists returning from Syria and Iraq.
“Without the information from British signals intelligence we would be blind," an unnamed senior intelligence official told the magazine.
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