ARREST SCHROEDER!
#GerhardSchroeder #CIA #FBI
#Russia Russia #Putin Putin #FSB FSB
Now arrest, interrogate, and investigate Gerhard Schroeder: a lot of missing lnks!
x.com/mikenov/status/2107486…Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) #CIA CIA #FBI FBI #Mossad Mossad
August Hanning and 9/11
The “Missing Link” Context: Hanning allegedly used these stolen classified documents to draft a high-level analysis for an overseas intelligence officer. While German prosecutors have not yet named the specific foreign nation involved, Hanning’s deep historical ties to 9/11 investigations—particularly regarding the Hamburg cell that planned the attacks—have drawn massive international attention to the breach. [1]
9/11: the missing link – August Hanning – Google Search google.com/search?q=9%2F11%3…— https://x.com/mikenov/status/2107486129859486039— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Oct 6, 2026
Month: October 2026
++++Exclusive+++ Former BND chief charged with treason allegedly leaked secret information with Azerbaijani intelligence @derspiegel spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/e…
— @FideliusSchmid Oct 6, 2026
Mehr als 2000 Geheimdokumente soll sich der frühere BND-Chef Hanning illegal beschafft haben. Aber wofür? Nach SPIEGEL-Recherchen gingen vertrauliche Informationen womöglich an einen Kontakt aus dem Kaukasus. Link in X-Bio.
— @derspiegel Oct 6, 2026
#Russia Russia #Putin Putin #FSB FSB
x.com/mikenov/status/2107486…Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) #CIA CIA #FBI FBI #Mossad Mossad
August Hanning and 9/11
The “Missing Link” Context: Hanning allegedly used these stolen classified documents to draft a high-level analysis for an overseas intelligence officer. While German prosecutors have not yet named the specific foreign nation involved, Hanning’s deep historical ties to 9/11 investigations—particularly regarding the Hamburg cell that planned the attacks—have drawn massive international attention to the breach. [1]
9/11: the missing link – August Hanning – Google Search google.com/search?q=9%2F11%3…— https://x.com/mikenov/status/2107486129859486039— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Oct 6, 2026
– Former BND chief August #Hanning has been in serious financial trouble for years.
– He faced seizure of property and company shares, and part of his pension has been garnished (seized by court order) because of his supervisory-board role in #Latvia’s PNB Banka collapse in 2019.
– He had sat on its supervisory board since 2017.
– The insolvency administrator sought ~€32m in damages from him and eight others, alleging he negligently signed off on dubious deals.
– Hanning said he was lured into a trap and misled by management.
– Former #NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen was also on the board and a co-defendant. Latvian police investigated in parallel. welt.de/politik/deutschland/…— @Shtuni Oct 6, 2026
Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason, obtaining state secrets reut.rs/4zjHve1 reut.rs/4zjHve1
— @Reuters Oct 6, 2026
#Germany: Former #BND chief August #Hanning, 80, and his ex-office chief Manfred D. have been arrested on suspicion of treason and espionage.
– Prosecutors say D. sold Hanning about 2,000 classified BND files after Hanning left in 2005 and that Hanning used some of the material for a foreign intelligence service.
– Files included briefings on #Iran’s nuclear program and the Russian military.
– The case grew out of a September 2025 search of Hanning’s home and offices by Hamburg police in the Christina Block kidnapping investigation.
– Block, a steakhouse heiress, is accused of ordering the late-2023 abduction of her two youngest children in a custody dispute.
– No former German intelligence chief has previously faced a treason case of this rank.
– It follows another serious BND case in which Carsten Linke, a former section head is on trial with codefender Arthur Eller, a Russian-born German businessman, over alleged spying for #Russia involving cyber operations.
– Prosecutors accuse them of passing classified BND material to Russia’s #FSB in autumn 2022, in the middle of the Ukraine war, including material tied to BND cyber operations.
– The indictment puts Eller’s payment at about €400,000 and Linke’s at about €450,000.
– He was arrested in January 2023 after being stopped at #Miami airport by U.S. customs and speaking at length to the #FBI.— @Shtuni Oct 6, 2026
New Epstein files show that UAE king Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum visited Epstein’s island 108 times.
— @_MegaPolitics Oct 6, 2026
Europe|German Officials Arrest Former Spy Chief on Espionage Charges
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Europe|German Officials Arrest Former Spy Chief on Espionage Charges
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August Hanning is accused of helping foreign governments. His arrest shook the German political world and had roots in a steakhouse-heiress kidnapping plot.
August Hanning in 2007, after he left the German intelligence service. Credit…Abdelhak Senna/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The federal police in Germany arrested a former head of the nation’s intelligence services on Tuesday on suspicion of “treasonous espionage” and other spying charges, including attempting to pass state secrets to foreign governments.
The federal prosecutor’s office announced it had detained the former spy chief, August Hanning, 80 — who led Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, from 1998 to 2005 — but did not say which foreign countries he was accused of helping.
The prosecutors said they had also arrested a former chief of staff to Mr. Hanning at the agency, who they said sold 2,000 government documents to Mr. Hanning — many of them classified — in the years after Mr. Hanning left his post and worked as a consultant, joining several corporate boards.
Mr. Hanning, the prosecutors said, had used some of the classified information to create an analysis for a foreign intelligence officer. He also supplied a representative of a separate foreign intelligence service with information over the years, the prosecutors said.
The arrest of a former spy chief, at a time of increased tension between Germany and rival foreign powers like China and Russia, shook the German political establishment.
Adding to the drama was the revelation, from prosecutors, that the investigation had origins in a separate, high-profile investigation into an alleged attempt by a German steakhouse heiress to kidnap her children from her estranged husband. The prosecutor’s office searched Mr. Hanning’s office in September 2025 as part of its investigation into that heiress, Christina Block, and discovered material that initiated the examination of Mr. Hanning.
The German news media has reported that Mr. Hanning has struggled financially in recent years, and his consulting business has drawn scrutiny. Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s leading news outlets, reported in 2023 that he had lost much of his pension in the fallout from his role in a failure of a Latvian bank in 2019.
Mr. Hanning appears to be the first former head of the intelligence service to be accused by prosecutors of espionage. But the agency has been rocked by other spying scandals in recent years.
In 2023, prosecutors arrested a manager at the agency, Carsten Linke, and accused him of selling highly classified material to Moscow even as Russia waged war on Ukraine.
Mr. Linke was charged with high treason and put on trial. The proceedings, which have been underway for more than three years, are expected to last at least until January. Mr. Linke could face life imprisonment if convicted.
Christopher F. Schuetze contributed reporting from Magdeburg, Germany.
Jim Tankersley is the Berlin bureau chief for The Times, leading coverage of Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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