Le siège de BND près de l'ancien mur de Berlin s'est achevé en 2017. Bâtiment du Service fédéral allemand de renseignements à la chaussée 96, Mitte, Berlin,
4517 x 3614 px | 38,2 x 30,6 cm | 15,1 x 12 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
7 novembre 2019
Lieu:
Chausseestraße 96, Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Informations supplémentaires:
BND headquarters near the former Berlin Wall completed in 2017. German Federal Intelligence Service Building at Chausseestraße 96, Mitte, Berlin, Germany. The BND was founded during the Cold War in 1956 as the official foreign intelligence agency of West Germany, which had recently joined NATO. It replaced the former Gehlen Organization. Reinhard Gehlen was the leader of the Gehlen Organization and later the founding president of the BND. The BND is western world's second largest intelligence agency and it acts as an early warning system to alert the German government to threats to German interests from abroad. The agency’s previous home was a villa built by Nazi chief Martin Bormann in the countryside near Munich, Bavaria. It was decided to move the BND HQ to Berlin after German reunification to a site that had housed police barracks, destroyed in WWII, and then a sports stadium, demolished in the 1990s. The building complex covers an area of 36 football fields and is the biggest intelligence HQ in the world. It took 12 years to build at a cost €1.1 billion It was delayed by several embarrassing incidents during construction. In 2011, the building blueprints were stolen. In 2015, thieves stole newly installed water taps resulting in massive flooding of the structure.
