The icing on the cake when it comes to the sad collapse of German statecraft.
August Hanning, former head of the German BND, the German equivalent of the CIA, has been arrested on espionage charges.
It has never happened before that a country’s top intelligence officer and head of a national spy agency proved to be a spy for another state.
— @tparsi Oct 6, 2026
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— @CIA Oct 6, 2026
Former German intelligence chief August Hanning, 80, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of treasonous espionage and passing state secrets to a foreign intelligence service.
Hanning, who headed Germany’s BND from 1998 to 2005, was detained in southern Germany. A former aide was also arrested and accused of helping with the alleged espionage.
Authorities did not say which country the two men are suspected of spying for.
— @RpsAgainstTrump Oct 6, 2026
Former German spy chief arrested on suspicion of attempted treason, obtaining state secrets reut.rs/3TrSjYl reut.rs/3TrSjYl
— @Reuters Oct 6, 2026
August Hanning and Mossad – Google Search google.com/search?q=August+H…
— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Oct 6, 2026
August Hanning and Mossad – Google Search google.com/search?q=August+H…
— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Oct 6, 2026
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— @VassiliGolod Oct 6, 2026
August Hanning and Russian Intelligence
German media reports indicate that the foreign intelligence service tied to the arrest of August Hanning is not Russian. [1]
The former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service (BND), August Hanning, was arrested on October 6, 2026, on suspicion of treason and espionage. While initial public speculation linked the breach to Moscow due to past high-profile BND double-agent cases involving Russia, major German news outlets—including WDR, NDR, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung—explicitly reported that Russian intelligence is not the foreign power involved in this specific case. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
August Hanning and Russian Intelligence – Google Search google.com/search?q=August+H…— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Oct 6, 2026
August Hanning and Russian Intelligence – Google Search google.com/search?q=August+H…
— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Oct 6, 2026