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Former German top spy placed under formal arrest

A judge of Germany's Federal Court of Justice issued a formal arrest warrant against a former spy chief accused of buying secret documents and using them ‌in an analysis for a foreign intelligence service, the Office of the Federal Prosecutor said on Wednesday.

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Ex-spy chief is arrested in Germany on suspicion of trading state secrets and treasonBERLIN — A former head of Germany ‘s foreign intelligence service was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion that he had passed state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, the federal prosecutor’s office said. August Hanning, who led the Federal Intelligence Service, known by its German acronym BND, from 1998 to

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