Talk:List of intelligence agencies of Germany

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I have removed the Federal Office for Information Security from the list since it is not an intelligence agency. It's pre-predecessor (!) was a department within the Bundesnachrichtendienst but that doesn't really make it necessary (and valid) to list it here. Ohdeebee 15:48, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Reading the law that created the BSI (see: https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/TheBSI/BSIAct/bsiact_node.html) I would consider the BSI being an intelligence agency

(1) The Federal Office shall promote the security of information technology. To do so, it shall perform the following tasks:

1. prevent threats to the security of federal information technology;

2. gather and analyse information on security risks and security precautions and provide the results to other authorities as needed for them to fulfil their tasks or preserve their security interests;

It serves the sole purpose of gathering and analyzing information which is the main field for every intelligence agency.

--209.141.56.84 (talk) 18:02, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have also renamed the the Office of Intelligence of the Bundeswehr which has been restructured in 2002 and is now called Zentrum für Nachrichtenwesen der Bundeswehr. It is part of the Streitkräfteunterstützungskommando (Armed Forces Support Command). There is however no such thing as an "Amt für Fernmeldewesen". Google indicates that it did exist but it was probably merged and/or renamed, there's no mention of it in official organizational diagrams. Ohdeebee 16:00, 27 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The IKtZ is also missing. It is considered as a intelligence agency according to Germann media and the law that creates the german federal police. It derived from the former border control agency and is now merged with the federal police as far as I understand the media correctly (see: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13689986.html). --209.141.56.84 (talk) 18:02, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the SS not in this list? Am I missing something?? Hesitating to add it!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel 198.175.68.37 (talk) 08:54, 1 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The intelligence agency of the SS was the Sicherheitsdienst (SD). Added under former agencies. 2003:CF:B70F:4740:465:8D66:347:A97 (talk) 09:28, 25 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]