Intelligence Scoop: Former German Spy Chief Arrested for Treason
00:03 For exclusive interviews, bonus episodes, ad-free listening, early access to series, first look at live show tickets, a weekly newsletter and discounted books. Join the declassified club at the rest is classified.com. Germany's former foreign intelligence chief has been arrested for treason and for spying for a foreign power. But who has he been accused of spying for? And how dangerous could this be for Germany and its intelligence agency, the BND? Well, welcome to the rest is classified. I'm Gordon Carrera.
00:43 And I'm David McLaughie. And David, let's look at what we know so far about this amazing story, which is hitting the BND, German's Foreign Intelligence Service, focusing on this individual August Hanning. Well, first off, Gordon, greetings from Edinburgh. Edinburgh. Edinburgh. Viewers will see that I'm looking as vampiric as you often do, Gordon.
01:06 I'm dotted by usual cave. All right, so August, August handing, he is not important. He's not the chief of the BND right now. He was the chief for 1998 to 2005. He took a job at the Interior Ministry afterward. And since about 2010 has opened up a private consultancy. And we should say he's not a career spy, is he? He's a public official. He was a lawyer who was appointed to the head of the intelligence agency. Did it for a few years, including those kind of nine, 11 years and then went into kind of other public service jobs and then into this consultancy role. That's right. And we should say that the charges that have been levied against him and will go much deeper into what this all entails, but the charges of espionage, treason, passing intelligence to a foreign intelligence service, I mean, these are in the German context unprecedented. I mean, this is an, it is impossible, I think, to overrelevant. state the seriousness with which the Germans are taking this case. It seems that he received
02:15 as many as 2,000 classified documents between about 2010 and this year. So it is a massive, massive trove information that he got access to. Yeah, and it's interesting because the documents come from, it's alleged, his chief of staff. It's alleged. Let's be careful at the moment. He's just been arrested, but his former chief of staff. So there's a man called Manfred, and the Germans tend to use only the first names with these cases, who was his chief of staff when August Hanning was head of the BND, but then continues to be the chief of staff for subsequent heads of the BND and serves in roles until March of this year. And the claim is that in 2010, Manfred and August Hanning come into this relationship in which Manfred is going to pass documents from the BND where he's still working
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05:44 That's NordVPN.com slash rest is classified. And the link is in the episode description. So, Gordon, the documents. What do we know about what was in those documents? Well, we obviously don't know all the details because they're secret and classified documents. But so what it looks like is that Manfred, so the source, if you like, within the BND, was passing particularly a set of documents which were used to prepare for these what are called intelligence situation meetings which happen in Germany.
06:17 So there's a regular meeting. I was reading about this. It's held every Tuesday, 10 a.m. on the fourth floor of the Federal Chancellery building. It's known as N.D. Lager. That was my best German accent. And this meeting brings together the heads of all of German security and intelligence agencies with government officials to discuss kind of security issues.
06:38 of the day. So it's a bit, I guess it's a bit like Britain's Joint Intelligence Committee. It's a kind of weekly update last two to three hours and then the heads of agencies just meet with the German Chancellor, the head of government after that for another hour. But it looks like one of the things that was being passed were the situation updates which were going to this big weekly meeting. Now, we don't know all of the details, but that would have related to all kinds of foreign policy and national security issues. It's hard to know how, how, how, how, you know, how, we're going to be sensitive and how deep they got into sourcing. But I guess, David, that's pretty, pretty useful stuff, isn't it? Pretty wide-ranging. Yeah, especially for someone who's running a private
07:17 consultancy that seems to have Azerbaijani clients and potentially Israeli clients and who knows who else. I mean, he's essentially getting, it's not quite equivalent. You mentioned the JIC, the Joint Intelligence Committee in the UK. He's getting something akin to the PDB. I mean, essentially under the, you know, under the... President's Daily Brief. Right, exactly. A decade plus after he's left the service, you could imagine how that would create really significant competitive advantage for him as he's shopping around and trying to find consulting
07:50 clients. I mean, it is interesting. I mean, some German press reports have said that the information he received also related to Iran's nuclear program, the Russian military. And I think, I mean, for me, the big question right now. that the Germans are dealing with, that the Brits are dealing with, that the CIA is dealing with, that pretty much any foreign partner of the B&D is dealing with, is what were those documents specifically? And was there foreign liaison information there?
08:23 There's already been some indication that Five Eyes intelligence has been passed to the, was passed with the Germans and that it ended up at this trove of documents that Handing has. And so you have to start thinking about whether, were there CIA liaison reports that got passed that could, in theory, be used to identify a human source in a third-party country? Or were there NSA intercepts that were passed that could be used to compromise a signals intelligence platform, you know, again, in Russia elsewhere. So that damage assessment is a big piece of this right now. I think when we think about what, what's the CIA doing?
09:04 what are the Brits doing? And no one's sitting back and laughing at the Germans, even though it's embarrassing. I mean, it's a deeply troubling development for foreign partners of the BNDD as well. Yeah, that's right. I mean, it is so interesting because the charges are kind of treason and spying style charges. But it doesn't look like this is someone who was working as an agent for a foreign state. And I think that's what's so interesting about this case is that it is actually someone working as a private intelligence contractor as a consultant who is asking for and tasking someone in the BND to get these documents to help his business work and to help him profit from it rather than because he's been asked to do it by a specific intelligence agency. Now, when you get into the details,
09:52 because according to the German prosecutor, so there's 2,000 documents which have been passed, and it says in at least one case, Hanning allegedly used classified information to create an assessment for an employee of a foreign intelligence service. And whether it was transmitted and reached that foreign intelligence service, they've not been able to determine. It's interesting. So they are very clear in not saying he was then passing these on to another state directly. He's using the info to do his work and he's in contact, perhaps drawing up information for a foreign state, which gets you to that kind of the treason and the espionage charges, doesn't it? Which in some cases, I think it could make this more complicated, the damage assessment,
10:38 because it's not like he was working solely for the Russians with the other. I mean, you know, it's interesting. I mean, when I saw this headline, I just assumed a German spy case, it must be the Russians. I mean, basically every BND spy case in recent memory was a BND officer or a German official working for the Russians. I mean, when Hanning was the chief of the BND, it was under the Gerard Schroeder chancellorship. And Schroeder right now is basically a Russian asset who went to work for Gazprom after he left political life. Yeah.
11:17 Right. So immediately my head went to, oh, this is the Russians. And it's actually more bizarre, as you say, because it's, you know, he's got these consulting clients and contacts. the one foreign intelligence agency or the one foreign government that has been named at the press reporting is Azerbaijan, which would not have been my first guess. If you had asked me, who was the German spy chief spy for? I would not have said the Azerbaijani's, but I don't think it's just them. I mean, we'll see in the coming days and weeks, but it's not like the Azerbaijani's are tasking him and he's working for them exclusively. I think it's very possible.
11:58 he wrote up consulting reports for them and got paid, but I bet he was doing that with a lot of other companies, probably high net worth individuals and probably other foreign governments too. Yeah, and it's interesting that kind of sources are suggesting in Germany that this wasn't a Russian or Chinese intelligence agency that he was in contact with and talking to. So they're obviously trying to kind of push people away from the idea that this was a kind of, you know, a big Russian or Chinese kind of mole case and that rather it's something much more in this private space. I mean, it is interesting because last summer he was announced as part of the board of a German
12:32 Azerbaijan forum alongside other diplomats to improve relations. So he's definitely doing his work, improving relations, if the allegations are true, which I should say Azerbaijan have denied as well as August Hanging, that he might have had contacts in that region. But, you know, when you start to look into what he's done since leaving office, it's really interesting and really murky and really complicated. it because like I was seeing that in 2013, he testified in London on behalf of the Russian oligdegarapaska, which, you know, raised eyebrows. His consulting firm, one of the ones he works with, had been
13:07 involved in selling private jets to the UAE in the Middle East, which were going to be used for surveillance purposes. You know, he's traveled to Moscow at times. So he's had kind of a lot of involvement with a lot of different countries. And I think that's one of the problems, is that this is this kind of wide variety of countries that he's been involved in in his consulting work, which I can imagine that they're going to have trouble with. And just one other really interesting detail, he served on the supervisory board of a Latvian bank, which then goes bust around 2019. It had some links to Russian businessmen and the like. In the insolvency process, the administrators go after the people who'd benefited and who were on the board, and they go after
13:50 August Hanning specifically to try and seize two-thirds of his German civil service. serve his pension. And so he's also having bits of his pension seized and involved in all these kind of weird contacts. And I was seeing that, you know, when he turns up at events like the Munich Security Conference recently, current serving German officials try and avoid him because they're like, this guy's got some kind of some odd links. So I think the fact that he had lots of murky consulting links was actually pretty well known in Germany and in that world. Should we talk about the murky consulting link that seems to have brought him down? Because this story is wild.
14:30 And it's, I mean, it starts like any good spy story should with a Hamburg steakhouse heiress, doesn't it, Gorda? I mean, you couldn't make it up. You couldn't put it in one of your novels. I will, now I might because it's perfect. So to me, this is almost more insane than the espionage and the fact that, and we should, by the way, we should just, say, because we didn't say this up front, I feel like we might have buried the lead here. This case is the equivalent of Leon Panetta in the U.S., having someone who is a senior serving official inside the CIA, providing him with classified information on a regular basis,
15:12 and Leon Panetta essentially selling that information to private firms and other countries. And you can make the same comparison with MI6. With MI6, I know. It is absolutely insane. But so back to the handbook steakhouse. Let's get to the steakhouse. Let's get to the real thing. This is how it broke, right?
15:31 This is how they got to him. This is what I find so mad about this story. It's not like they got to him through some kind of deep NSA tip-off or something to do with the CIA. It's because of a steakhouse heiress investigation. So there's this steakhouse heiress called Christina Block. And Blockhouse, I've been reading about this, Blockhouse is a big restaurant chain in Germany, and it's family-friendly steakhouses
15:59 where you can get a classic Block burger and a filet mignon. So it's kind of upmarket, but steaks, burgers and the like. Anyway, so she is the heiress to the Block family fortune, and she, Christina Block, has been in this bitter custody battle with her ex-husband, Stephen Hensel, and she has been trying to get the children that they've been battling over it. And so the claim is that at New Year's Eve, 2023,
16:29 she contracts a group to ambush her ex-husband. I mean, this is how mad this is, and their two youngest children who are then 10 and 13, in southern Denmark, close to the German border. And at New Year's Eve, they're watching a fireworks display. the abductors knock the ex-husband down drag the two kids away
16:52 into a forest and into a car the children supposedly have their mouths taped and are tied up and told be quiet because otherwise we'll kill you I mean that's pretty wild but then Danish police with sniffer dogs are dispatched on the tail of the kidnappers due to an alarm that the boy's father had
17:10 the children get taken to a farmhouse over the border in Germany and they're held there until Block eventually herself comes to pick them up in January 2024 and takes them back to Hamburg. And then the kids are eventually handed over to the police because they must realize what's going on. And then take them back to Denmark a few days later. So, I mean, that's the kind of weird heiress custody battle. But the point is, the claim is, that how did Christina Block find people to abduct her children
17:45 through August Hanging. I mean, through a former BND chief who puts her in touch with an Israeli private intelligence firm to do the abductions. I mean, that is wild, isn't it? Yeah, and he's paid over 100,000 euros for his trouble. So again, we're back to this kind of mercenary theme
18:06 that runs through his motivation. We should say, as we always do, that August Hanging has firstly denied the allegations that he's involved in spying and that he's involved in the abduction and that case is going on. He does admit that he was hired by Christina Block though, right? He's not he's not denying that. He's saying that he was hired to come up with strategies to help retrieve the children and
18:30 that he felt sorry for her because she was so emotionally strained as a result of the custody battle. But he does deny, he does deny hiring is really kidnappers to bring the children back to Germany, you should say. So it is wild. And so it looks like the police are investigating the kidnapping case. And then Hamburg police are investigated. Well, how did the kidnapping take place?
18:56 And then they come across August Hanging, as having helped put Christina Block in terms of putting her in touch with the Israelis. Then they start investigating him. And then it looks like that's how they find the files. And the fact that he's got 2,000 documents stashed at home and that he's in contact with someone who's been in the BND. So that's how the whole thing unraveled. It's not some kind of crazy mole hunt, but a steakhouse eras and an abduction.
19:25 I mean, it's wild, isn't it? It is absolutely wild. And I think that it also comes at a particularly sensitive time and important time for the German security services and the BND, which I think is also very interesting because we have. just had in August legislation go through the German cabinet, I mean, essentially to turn the BND from a defensive service into a service that can actually try to repel Russian cyber attacks, sabotage that could hold onto data longer than it had in the past, that could collect surveillance information overseas in a way that it hadn't been able to before. And this is
20:12 coming at a time where, I mean, it's politically contested. And now we have a former head of the BND who's been arrested on treason charges. Okay, so there with the BND going through a tricky time, let's take a break. And when we come back, we'll explore those new powers and what's really going on with the BND in more detail. See you after the break. With Export Development Canada, Canadian businesses are competing, leading and winning in more international markets, like how agri-food businesses are strengthening global food supply, and critical minerals are powering industries of the future. Their ambition can't be contained. And with EDC behind them, neither can their growth. Export Development Canada is the financial
20:58 partner for Canadian businesses going global. Visit EDC.ca for more. Well, welcome back. There's kind of two angles here, right? There's what does this mean for the BND and these massive security reforms that are trying to make their way through the German Parliament. And what does it mean also? We talked about this a little bit before the break, but I think it's worth drawing it out. What does it mean for the BNDs allies? What does it mean for intelligence agencies that share with the BND like CIA and SIS? It is really sensitive because it's come at a really interesting moment for the B&D. Because if you look back, historically, it's not been seen as one of the more aggressive, top-tier services.
21:46 You know, it doesn't do a lot of kind of collection. It's interesting. We talk about them as a foreign intelligence service that they are. But in that report labeling them the fifth best European spy agency, there was a great quote for one of the intelligence officers who actually participated at the survey, who referred to the BND as essentially a think tank, like a glorified research group. And it's really kind of a repository for information that's passed to the Germans. It's a bit less of a spy agency in the way you'd think about CIA and MI6.
22:21 Yeah. And it's interesting because, I mean, in the early days, it was quite, you know, the very early days at the start of the Cold War was quite badly penetrated by the Soviets in particular. There's a very big agent there. I mean, recently in 2022, there was a high-ranking German intelligence officer and he'd been director of technical reconnaissance who gets arrested and charged with treason for the Russians for passing secrets to Russia and passing very, very classified material. They had a bad time in the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The then BND chief Bruno Karl was in Ukraine as the invasion happens in February
22:56 2022 because they didn't believe it was going to happen. And then he has to be evacuated by special forces on the ground because the airspace is closed, which again was a kind of slightly embarrassing case. So they've had a kind of tough time. But you're right. You were saying earlier that there has been the sense that they're trying to change. And just on Monday, so the day before the arrests, the current head of the BND, Martin Yeager, was talking to the German parliament and talking about the risks of
23:28 escalation with Russia. He cited the Leipzig drone attack, which we talked about a couple of weeks ago on the podcast and said, you know, the world is getting more dangerous. We need to be more aggressive. He said, we will be a different, a new BND. We're going to get new powers and that entails greater responsibility. So there's been this push to give them more aggressive powers to kind of deal with Russian sabotage in particular and kind of hit back at that. And that's something that they've been just right now in the process of taking on, haven't they? Yeah. I mean, I think that the It might be over the last year or two, the BND's budget has gone up by a bit over 25% already.
24:12 You have this legislation, which, I mean, is going to do things. It's going to sound kind of crazy to listeners of this pod who were familiar with us talking about the CIA and MI6 and the Russians and Assad. But, I mean, things like allowing the BND to hold data for extended periods of time so they can go back and search it, allowing them to actually respond to Russian. cyber attacks and sabotage by trying to sort of do hackbacks and things like that. They haven't been allowed to do that yet. I mean, even things like that, so the Leipzig attack or attempted attack that we talked about, where you have these sort of disposable agents that are oftentimes being paid with crypto, the BND and Germany's internal security services don't have the authorities right now
24:57 to disrupt those payments, to stop them from happening. So we're not talking about the Germans being unleashed to do all kinds of crazy co-finding. action in Ukraine and elsewhere, we're talking about sort of basic, you know, security agency authorities that exist across most of the West. The Germans don't have them. And I think what's really interesting about this case is, is it going to sort of create fuel for oftentimes people in the far right in Germany, who are in far left, who are suspicious of the BND and its authorities, or is it going to help the chancellor by showing, and there's precedent for this in Europe, too, by showing that the BND really needs to be reformed and it needs to be effective
25:43 because Hanning, you know, you could sort of trot him out and say, this is what happens when we don't have an effective intelligence services. Not only does it produce somewhat like this, but we miss it for, we do not see this for 16 years. And, you know, I think it's, it's an open question at this point. But my sense, it's a, you know, sort of a guess is that it will actually, it will create more of an impulse to give the BND more authority and make it a serious service. What do you think? No, I think that's possible. I think there's a realization because it is a spy service, which of course in Germany has, you've got the history of, you know, the Nazi period in the Gestapo and in East Germany, the same.
26:30 Stasi as kind of oppressive spy services. So there's a very strong culture of restraint and privacy in the German system. But we've seen it in the military now. They are, you know, pushing to rearm. And I think you're seeing it in the intelligence world. They're pushing to rearm because of the situation they're in and because of the Russian threat, the Russian sabotage threat. And I don't think that this will change that dynamic fundamentally. But it may, you're right, give this sense of we do need to change. You know, we need to have a more, a more power effective kind of intelligence service, which is more modern and more kind of aggressive to some extent to be able to deal with these kind of threats. So I think that's right. So should we
27:08 look at one other area, which is, you know, what's the fallout likely to be for allies? I mean, how do you think it's going to kind of play out? I mean, I think the Brits will certainly be looking at this and saying, you know, what of our reporting could have been shared and where might it have ended up? And it's one thing if it ends up with Augusteanning in his shed, you know, with the stack of 2000 documents. It's another thing if it ends up up, well, you know, in Azerbaijan or somewhere else. But I guess it depends on how sensitive that reporting might be. I mean, if it's just the kind of briefing documents high level, then perhaps it's not so bad. But it's still, I mean, it's not going to help the BND, is it?
27:45 Because there's so much of this, I mean, you know this, is about trust and sharing when it comes to secrets. It is. I do think, I mean, obviously it doesn't help the BND. This is reputational quite awful. At the same time, I do think their response. you know, of bringing this out into the open, pressing charges, pressing very serious charges, espionage and treasoned, I mean, unprecedented shows, it's not only a backward-looking view of how serious this is, but I think it's a forward-looking signal to Germans, but also to foreign partners, that the BND can be trusted, or is hoping to be trusted, to be a serious service that's worthy of its of its partners trust. And I think the seriousness of the charges,
28:33 I mean, I would I would applaud the Germans for doing this because I think, you know, you think German spy case, there's a precedent here for these kind of things being sort of shoved aside and not dealt with seriously. The Germans have chosen to go exactly the opposite direction, which I think is really laudable. But I mean, when you dig down into what's happening right now at the MI6 or CIA station in Berlin with these. liaison relationships. I mean, my sense is that it's a race to try to get access to everything that Henning had. Yeah. Liaise with the Germans to figure out where it went as their debriefing handing and questioning him. And then looking at that pile and saying, well, which of this stuff is
29:18 mine? Is it CIA liaison reporting? Is it NS? Is it five eyes? You know, intercepts came from the five that were cleared for passage to the Germans, as often happens. And that looking at that, you know, is there any way for a hostile service? And that could be the Azerbaijanis or it could be the Turks or it could be the Russians or anybody else that this may have gotten to. Is there any way for them to identify human sources from this information that are currently in place or to compromise signals intelligence or other technical platforms as a result? As a result, of having those intercepts. And that damage assessment is absolutely key.
30:01 And it actually, I mean, sort of paradoxically, it means that in the coming weeks, there needs to be more cooperation with the B&D, not less. Yeah. I mean, there have been some cases in the past, I think, where trust has collapsed within Europe, particularly, I remember there's a point where everyone, including the Brits, basically stopped sharing with the Austrians
30:21 because they were worried that the Austrians were leaky to the Russian. partly because of the politics in Austria at the time. But Germany is such a big country and is strategically so important. You've got to work with the BND. You've got to talk to them. There's so much going on. I can't imagine that liaison or that relationship really stopping fundamentally.
30:43 You know, it's just too important. And this looks too much like one guy who was a bad egg, potentially, allegedly, who should have been caught. Yeah, I think that's right. Also, I mean, the legislative context right now around these security reforms, I mean, these are reforms that every Western intelligence partner of the Germans wants to see past. You know, it's through the cabinet. They want to see it go through the parliament. You don't want to be pulling back from the BND right now at a moment when you want to actively help them as they progress from, frankly, an agency that couldn't do much against the Russian threat. to one that could over the coming years become a real partner, you know, to combat that kind of Russian hybrid warfare we talked about a few weeks ago. The Germans are really critical to that.
31:36 And if you back away from the BND or mistreat them publicly or cut off anything, you know, as sort of some kind of signal, I think it's going to be very counterproductive. I don't, I don't see that happening. No. I think the one thing I do see happening is a lot more questions being asked when former intelligence chiefs or officials go into the private sector and do consult. In Germany, I think that's the case. We've had some cases in the US where people have been caught up in, you know, have they then got too close into foreign states? But this is, you know, this is extraordinary because you've got a former chief, a former head.
32:06 And you've got his source, allegedly, being still in the agency and, you know, supplying all that material. You know, it's a really, you know, interesting kind of complicated case, but raises kind of profound questions about, you know, money, consulting and relationships between people who are out and people who are still. in, which I think, you know, that I think may be one of the lessons, which I think other services as well as the BND will be looking at and going, do we have to look quite carefully at this to make sure there isn't something untoward going on? I agree, but also, you know, at the same time, I have, here's my advice for Intel chiefs who retire and then set up their own consulting practices. Don't recruit a former aide and pay them money for classified documents to be hauled out of your service. You know, so it's kind of like, yeah, he did something this in many ways. I agree with
33:02 you at all the kind of grayness that can exist at these private consulting shops. And certainly when you come out of a service and you've been at a senior level, you have a lot of stuff in your head, you have information, you have access to networks that exist because of what you did inside the spy agency. But in this case, it's just, he's so clearly crossed the line into, something that looks like. I mean, it's just straight up, he was running a source inside the BND. It just happened to be his former aide. I guess as we finish, that's your bit of advice.
33:36 My bit of advice is be careful putting steakhouse heiresses in touch with Israeli private intelligence contractors to abduct children. I mean, I think that's possibly, you know, one bit of free advice out there for people. There's a lot of, I mean, there's a lot of wisdom that's come out of this episode. I think that's unexpectedly. Unexpectedly. Some simple but powerful rules to live a good life. Good advice to any form of spies out there listening.
34:02 So there we are. I think that's where we should leave it. Before we give any more advice, we kind of don't want to get too far down that and become consultants ourselves, offering advice on how to do it. But we've got episode four of Kim Filby coming out on Monday, so do listen out for that as the wild story
34:21 of someone who really was a mole for the Russians and doing the bad stuff from inside British intelligence. It's not just the Germans who have bad eggs. We have them too in Britain. And Kim Filby was one of them. That's coming out on Monday. Do join the Declassified Club if you want to binge those episodes. And also, of course, you get access to some amazing bonus episodes.
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37:19 a betrayal uncovered by his replacement, Artemis Aphrodite Proctor. Caught between the Turncoat Spymaster and a ruthless new boss back at Langley, Proctor must now navigate a tense environment as old friends become adversaries, and no one knows whom to trust. When assets begin dying, Procter and her team in London Station must find out who is leaking the source's identities, and why, before both agencies go blind. And soon, they'll have to decide whether loyalty to the mission means disobeying the agency they serve. You can purchase London Station now, wherever good books are sold.
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