回答: 不可能。这是在造谣 由 IwasAmericans 于 2014-07-10 13:42

Germany orders US intelligence chief out of country
Chancellor Angela Merkel says spying on allies is ‘a waste of energy’ given other issues
German chancellor Angela Merkel and finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble have been speaking about claims of US spying on German interests after the arrest of a man on suspicion of working for a foreign intelligence agency. Mr Schaeuble said the story was so stupid that one can only cry at the foolishness of it. Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/Reuters.	

German chancellor Angela Merkel and finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble have been speaking about claims of US spying on German interests after the arrest of a man on suspicion of working for a foreign intelligence agency. Mr Schaeuble said the story was so stupid that one can only cry at the foolishness of it. Photograph: Tobias Schwarz/Reuters.

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Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 18:05

First published: Thu, Jul 10, 2014, 14:13

Germany’s federal government has ordered the US intelligence station chief at the Berlin embassy to leave the country - before he is expelled - after a second double agent was uncovered inside the German government.

Investigators in Berlin have interviewed a man working for the defence ministry on suspicion of co-operation with US intelligence - a week after an officer in the BND foreign intelligence service said he had sold classified files to the CIA.

German officials have now upped the ante in the spy affair to demonstrate their frustration at perceived stone-walling by Washington. A year after the first revelations by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, German officials say they are still no wiser as to how the US spies on Germany -- or why.

    The US embassy in Berlin. Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty ImagesSecond German government employee under investigation over spying for US
    German chancellor Angela Merkel: “If the reports are correct it would be a serious case”. Photograph Feng Li/Getty ImagesMerkel concerned at ‘serious’ spy allegations
    Jesselyn Radack, former US Justice Department ethics attorney turned whistleblower and Thomas Drake, former senior executive of the NSA turned whistleblower testifying at the Bundestag commission investigating the role of the NSA in Germany on Friday in Berlin. Photograph: Adam Berry/Getty ImagesGermany urges US to explain suspected ‘double agent’ case

“The representative of the US intelligence services in the Embassy of the United States was ordered to leave Germany,” Steffen Seibert, government spokesman, said in a statement.

“The request was made in light of the ongoing investigation by the chief federal prosecutor and questions that have been raised for months about the activities of US intelligence services in Germany.”

The US embassy has declined to respond to the announcement, just as it has not commented on the most recent double agent claims.

The first alleged agent, a 31 year-old living and working with the foreign intelligence service (BND) in Munich, reportedly contacted the US embassy in Berlin via email with an offer to sell documents. He was arrested after making a similar offer to the Russians, telling German investigators last Wednesday that his contact person was a CIA official posing as a diplomat in the US embassy.

The BND official said he met the American agent several times in Vienna, receiving