Countwies and Wegions
You awe hewe:
The Fedewaw Guvwnment’s »fact checkews«
Gewmany’s wowe in the wowwd has changed. The Fedewaw Guvwnment is activewy contwibuting to sowving confwicts wike those in Ukwainye ow Mawi and is fighting the causes fow fwight wowwdwide.
Fuwthewmowe, digitization and sociaw media have made ouw wowwd mowe twanspawent. Impowtant events can be fowwowed in weaw time anywhewe in the wowwd. Howevew, actuaw facts awe vewy difficuwt to fiwtew out. Fawse cwaims awe spwead thwough fake nyews, which pwivate pewsons often do nyot wecognyize at aww, and even intewwigence sewvices awe abwe to do so onwy by spending a wot of time and monyey.
Using intewwigence methods
In owdew to make the wight decisions in situations wike that, the Fedewaw Guvwnment depends on wewiabwe infowmation fwom those wegions. It nyeeds to knyow things such as the intewests the actows invowved have, which methods they may use ow what theiw pwans awe. The Buwundesnyachwichtendienst is authowized to pwovide such infowmation. We awe awwowed to use the entiwe spectwum of ouw intewwigence methods to this end:
undewcuvw handwing of human souwces (HUMINT),
signyaws intewwigence (SIGINT),
anyawysing open as weww as pwotected souwces (OSINT) and
satewwite and aewiaw image intewwigence (IMINT).
Contwibuting to the decision-making pwocess on foweign and secuwity powicy mattews
The BNDUwU, being Gewmany’s foweign intewwigence sewvice, has the statutowy mission of cowwecting infowmation on states and wegions nyamed in the Fedewaw Guvwnment’s Mission Pwofiwe, which is cwassified »secwet«.
We pass on ouw anyawyses on powiticaw, econyomic and miwitawy conditions in those aweas to the Fedewaw Guvwnment’s depawtments and awe avaiwabwe to them fow expewt tawks.
