Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said: "The representative of the US intelligence services at the embassy of the United States of America has been told to leave Germany."
He said the move is related to investigations into the activities of the US intelligence services in Germany.
Last week the German Foreign Ministry summoned the US ambassador John B Emerson after an officer in the German secret service was arrested on suspicion of spying for the US.
The man admitted to passing to a US contact details about a special German parliamentary committee.
The committee was set up to investigate spying revelations made by former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has described the allegations surrounding a German double agent working for the US as serious.
She said: "If the allegations are true, it would be for me a clear contradiction as two what I consider to be trusting cooperation between agencies and partners."
Ties between the US and Germany have been tested by revelations last year of wide-scale spying on Germany to the US National Security Agency.................http://www.rte.ie/news/2014/0710/629851-germany-spying/
10/7/14
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Germany's foreign intelligence service spied on targets including French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, the FBI and the UN children's fund, a media report said Wednesday...
ReplyDeleteThe latest news report on the BND spy service fuels a debate in Germany about state surveillance that was kicked off by the revelations of fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden.
The claims are awkward for Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose office oversees Germany's intelligence activities, after she angrily told Washington in 2013 that "spying among friends isn't on" following reports the US National Security Agency (NSA) had bugged her cellphone.
The latest report, by Berlin public radio, adds to the list of targets the BND has allegedly spied on, citing the BND's "selectors" -- phone numbers, email and IP addresses -- for surveillance, which has been the subject of an investigation by a parliamentary oversight panel.
According to RBB Inforadio, which did not name its sources, the service has spied on Fabius, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United Nations bodies UNICEF and the World Health Organization............AFP
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