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The whole german intelligence service, BND, was, and is mostly still, run by US-picked Nazis.

Just look at the history of the german intelligence service: Towards the end of WW2, when german defeat became obvious, some high-profile SA/SS nazi coward and named Gehlen started copying all secret documents he could find and buried them in the mountains, so that, when he would get captured, he could save his own life from the death sentence by making himself valuable by providing the victor secret documents. His plan worked out, and the US hired him for building up a spy agency for spying against "the east". He picked almost exclusively old Nazi friends for staff, many of them war criminals from the SA/SS etc., and the official german intelligence service came to life as a branch of the US military, almost exclusively staffed with formed high-profile Nazis. Then, when the CIA came to life, the organization became a branch of the CIA. Then, in the 50s, the organization officially became "german" - meaning that from now on germany would have to pay the bill, while hardly anything else changed.

It then existed for several decades without any legal basis/justification, and even today, many people know the rumours that the german intelligence service is still run mostly by Nazis and still hardly more than a subbranch of the US intelligence services. Nobody here considers BND & Co. to be actually working for the german public; they are rather considered like the remaining US army bases in germany: Like "herpes" - annoying, everyone hates it, but you realize you will never get rid of this fucking disease completely...