It would have been a German Super Watergate – but the incredible events are only now, 60 years later, public. In his new book Secret Services – The Political Domestic Espionage of the BND in the Adenauer Era, the historian Klaus-Dietmar Henke describes how the foreign intelligence service was used during Konrad Adenauer’s chancellorship as a domestic political instrument to retain power. Particularly explosive: the systematic investigation of the SPD opposition in favor of the CDU chancellor.
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