Report: After Spying Operation in Germany, CIA Outed Suspected Leaker to Retaliate Against Journalists

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"In the summer of 2011, the CIA station chief in Berlin asked one of the most powerful intelligence officials in Germany to go on a private walk with him, the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reports. The American spy had an important message to convey: one of Germany’s own senior officials was leaking information to the press."

See the article: After Spying Operation in Germany, CIA Outed Suspected Leaker to Retaliate Against Journalists (The Intercept, link)

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