Bundesnachrichtendienst
German Federal Intelligence Service was founded in 1956 through the reformation of the semiofficial GO (Gehlen Org.) It underlies directly the Chancellor and it's staff counts nearly 7,000 people.The first chief was R.Gehlen (founder of the GO). In 1968, he was replaced by G.Wessel who reorganized the service in 1972. Four divisions were created.
Division I. - Intelligence. Collecting of information from the military, political and economical areas.
Division II - Technical. Monitoring of RF transmissions and broadcasting. It's assistant to the first division.
Division III - Analyses. Further processing of the stuff gained by the first division. They managed to predict the win of Israel over Egypt in 1967, but they didn't plan the right development in Poland in 1981, Russian aggression against Afghanistan in 1979.
Division IV -HQ. Manages the administration, training and public relations
BND managed to place agents in East Germany and USSR what can be said to be a success, but the defection of the counterintelligence chief, H.Felf, in 1961 was a big strike. They revealed the Libyan diplomatic code in the 80s. Americans could evaluate in an strike against a terrorist group in Hamburg.
