BND Facilities
The Federal Intelligence Service (BND) was 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.
The new German intelligence headquarters in the country’s capital, occupy space equivalent to the area of 35 football fields. The concrete and steel 9-story offices, which cost almost 1 billion euros to build, have sparked controversy. The first tranche of 174 personnel, out of 4,000 secret service employees, moved to the new building on 31 March 2014. German intelligence (Bundesnachrichtendienst or BND) is quitting the small town of Pullach, near Munich and now finds itself within walking distance of the federal chancellery and parliament. Various spy units are being assembled on the territory, which occupies some 120,000 square meters. “The merging of various units under one roof promises growth in efficiency and effectiveness and further improvements in performance helping the Bundesnachrichtendienst to meet the future challenges of an increasingly globalized world,” the BND website says.
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