The Federal Intelligence Service (German: Bundesnachrichtendienst, pronounced [ˌbʊndəsˈnaːχʁɪçtnˌdiːnst] ⓘ; BND) is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinate to the Chancellor's Office. [2]

Secret Field Police (GFP) (German: Geheime Feldpolizei): Secret military police of the Wehrmacht. Security Service (SD) (German: Sicherheitsdienst ): Intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party .

The Bundesnachrichtendienst is the foreign intelligence service of the Federal Republic of Germany, compiling political, economic and military foreign intelligence. As a higher federal authority, we are tasked by the Federal Government.

Sicherheitsdienst (German: [ˈzɪçɐhaɪtsˌdiːnst] ⓘ, "Security Service"), full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS ("Security Service of the Reichsführer-SS"), or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany.

Only very few entities, all of them government authorities, are allowed to spy, i.e. use intelligence methods. When foreign countries are concerned, it is the BND that uses these intelligence methods to fulfil its statutory mission within the German security architecture.

The German domestic intelligence services use it for the purpose of informing one another about their intelligence. The system enables the services to analyse links between individuals and incidents in all fields and for the country as a whole.

BND, foreign intelligence agency of the West German government. Created in April 1956, it absorbed the “Gehlen Organization,” a covert intelligence force which was created by Major General Reinhard Gehlen after World War II and which cooperated with …