Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Facebook/pages with German spook geo location

Following weeks of reading and writing about the German foreign intelligence service BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst), we figured a minimal research effort would be nice of us and put the K-Landnews Random Research team on the job.
We found the sppooks have their very own page on Wikipedia, unsurprisingly.  On this grey day, the valiant, bored team then performed a few searches for items from the Wikipedia page, and yeah - we saw a Facebook "pages" page for the "cover" agency Bundesvermögensverwaltung Abteilung Sondervermögen at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bundesverm%C3%B6gensverwaltung-Abteilung-Sonderverm%C3%B6gen/122258861184086

The FB page includes other local business listings, so it is fair to say that  irrelevant questions like "where to BND spooks go when they want to have a pizza for lunch?" are surprisingly easy to resolve.

We would love to be able to tell you that the Facebook presence is a sign of greater government transparency but, jaded as we are, there is no sign of such a move to regain the trust of the population.

"I'm surprised you ever trusted the government in the first place", a friend said.

This seems to be the true root cause of the problem many of us have been having in the past eight weeks.



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