$1.25bn home for 4,000 secret agents: What’s behind German spy agency’s new HQ? (PHOTOS)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, left, and Bruno Kahl, President of the BND, pose during the official opening of the Federal Intelligence Service, BND, building in Berlin, Germany, February 8, 2019. © Michael Sohn/Pool via Reuters
After occupying a Nazi-linked villa for decades, Germany’s intelligence HQ has finally moved to central Berlin. But critics are still arguing what’s worse here – its enormous size, exuberant cost or bulky architecture.
The central office of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in downtown Berlin was officially opened on Friday. Chancellor Angela Merkel thanked BND personnel for their work “so that millions of Germans can live in safety,”noting that the nation’s spy agency needs to stay “strong, efficient.”
The agency’s previous home was a villa built by Nazi chief Martin Bormann in the countryside near Munich, Bavaria. This new site has housed police barracks, destroyed in WWII, and then a sports stadium, demolished in the 1990s.
The office covers an area of 36 football fields, making it the biggest intelligence HQ in the world. It will house around 4,000 agents.
The decision to relocate the HQ stemmed directly from the aftermath of German reunification, as political institutions were moved from West Germany’s capital, Bonn to Berlin, the Defense Ministry’s former state secretary, Willy Wimmer told RT.
https://www.rt.com/news/451063-new-bnd-building-berlin/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
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