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Bundesnachrichtendienst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (321 words) |
 | The Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal Intelligence Service, BND) is the foreign intelligence agency of the German government, under the control of the Bundeskanzleramt (Federal Chancellery). |
| The BND was created on 1 April 1956, out of the Gehlen Org, set up by US occupying forces in 1946, under the leadership of Reinhard Gehlen. |
| During the Cold War, as many as 90% of the BND's informants in East Germany were double agents run by the Stasi. |
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| The BND said that some 250 workers at Al Mamoun Factory are producing ABABIL-100, a ballistic missile with a range of 150 Km that does not violate U.N. restrictions. |
| The BND report is similar to a U.S. news report last month that Iraq had restarted its missile programs and flight-tested a short-range missile. |
| BND also believed that the Iraqi regime has a program to study and develop blueprints for missiles with a range of 3,000 Km. |
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