Germany’s foreign intelligence agency has suffered “grave reputational damage” and lost the trust of some western partners after one of its senior officers was outed as an alleged Russian spy, the organisation’s chief has said.
The Federal Intelligence Service (BND), which loosely speaking combines the roles of MI6 and GCHQ in the UK, has been dragged into a Berlin court to address one of the most serious breaches of secrecy in its 70-year history.
