Germany’s BND intelligence agency has resumed joint internet surveillance with the US National Security Agency (NSA) after halting collaboration with Washington last year following a row over spying practices, German media reported.
Last May, German intelligence sources said the BND had stopped sending the NSA information gathered from its surveillance station in Bad Aibling in Bavaria.
That move, which followed allegations the BND had helped the NSA spy on European officials and firms, strained German-US relations.
German newspapers last week reported that collaborations at the Bad Aibling station have been resumed and the NSA is again being supplied with intelligence by the BND.
Officials did not immediately comment on the report but the move comes amid hightened security concerns across Europe following militant attacks in Paris on November 13 and an alert over possible suicide bombings in Munich over New Year’s Eve.
In response to the Munich security alert, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere called for closer cooperation with foreign security services.
