BND Facilities
The Federal Intelligence Service (BND) is headquartered in Munich-Pullach, where between 80 to 90 percent of BND employees are stationed. Financially, it is not possible to mover the service to Berlin by the year 2000, though plans are underway for the the BND to establish a "virtual" presence in Berlin by 1999, when the Federal Government moves there.
The new BND Situation and Information Center (LIZ) is housed in a new complex of buildings, costing 100 million German marks. Here the information collected from around the world from media and agent reports is analyzed, compiled and integrated with with political evaluations. Twice each day an online situation report is prepared for submission to recipients in situation centers at the chancellor's office, in the Foreign and Interior Ministries and in other departments.
The BND operates a secret telecommunications intercept station in Hoefen at the border with Belgium. Officially, an office for telecommunications statistics is housed there. The BND uses a high-capacity computer to register the collected data. Another BND collection facility is located in Husom in Schleswig-Holstein, also disguised as an office for telecommunications statistics. Situated on the western coast of Schleswig-Holstein, it is probably monitoring the Atlantic region. The antennas belong to the "Kastagnette" installation, which is located in the middle of a residential district about 200 meters away. Between 1988 and 1993, a substantial effort was invested in the expansion of the facility.
