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BERLIN. — The German government has demanded an explanation from Washington over the US intelligence services’ apparent contact with a German man arrested last week on suspicion of being a double agent, the interior minister said in a newspaper interview.“I expect everyone to co-operate promptly to clear up these allegations — with quick and clear comments from the United States as well,” Thomas de Maizière told Bild, according to excerpts from its Monday edition.
The White House and state department have so far declined to comment on the arrest of a 31-year-old employee of Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency, who has admitted passing documents to a US contact, according to intelligence and political sources. That includes information about a parliamentary committee looking into allegations by the former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden that Washington carried out major surveillance in Germany, including monitoring the phone of the chancellor, Angela Merkel. — guardian.co.uk
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