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Ex-German spy chief arrested: A history of spooks working for enemy powers



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xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogleAdd Al Jazeera on GoogleinfoKim Philby, the top British intelligence officer who worked as a double agent and fled to the USSR, is pictured with his last wife Rufina Pukhova in Moscow in the 1980s [File: Laski Diffusion/Getty Images]By Barbara AngopaPublished On 7 Oct 20267 Oct 2026Germany’s former spy chief, August Hanning, has been arrested on suspicion of passing state secrets to a foreign intelligence service.

Hanning, 80, headed up the Federal Intelligence Service, known by its German acronym BND, from 1998 to 2005.

A federal prosecutor’s statement said it strongly suspected him of “treasonous espionage, obtaining state secrets, attempted treason” through contact with foreign intelligence services since 2010, while working as a private consultant. He is accused of obtaining around 2,000 sensitive documents from a former bureau chief who has also been arrested.

But he isn’t the only high-ranking intelligence officer to have been discovered to have worked for foreign governments over the years.

Here are some of the highlights.

Kim Philby was a British intelligence officer who secretly spent decades working for the Soviet Union during World War II and the early Cold War years.

He was recruited by Soviet Intelligence while studying at Cambridge University in the 1930s. He was the most prominent member of the “Cambridge Five” – a spy ring that gave away British secrets to the Soviet Union.

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