(Updated: June 12, 2014)
The German linguistic communication unusual news service Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) is moving to a gear upward novel headquarters inward Berlin. Here nosotros demo about unique pictures from within the sometime headquarters inward the hamlet of Pullach together with also laissez passer on an impression of what the novel edifice looks like.
Unlike for instance the the States together with the United Kingdom, FRG has no split upward means for collecting Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) - this is done past times the BND, together with every bit such this means is a tertiary Party partner of NSA since 1962 together with also participates inward the SIGINT Seniors Europe or 14-Eyes group.
The sometime Pullach headquarters
Since its formal creation inward 1956, the Bundesnachrichtendienst had its headquarters at a 68-hectare chemical compound inward Pullach, a hamlet nigh Munich inward the southern say of Bavaria, which was initially build every bit a model hamlet for staff members of the Nazi political party inward the years 1936-1938. On the eastern percentage of the chemical compound at that topographic point are nowadays also a issue of modern percentage blocks:
As a goodbye to this old headquarters, the German linguistic communication lensman Martin Schlüter was allowed to direct keep pictures of almost every corner of the complex, but solely at night, when at that topographic point were no employees present. His pictures at 1 time available inward a majority called "Nachts schlafen boot the bucket Spione" (at nighttime the spies are sleeping), published past times the Sieveking Verlag.
Pictures from the majority were shown inward the German linguistic communication tv journal TTT - Titel, Thesen, Temperamente, which made it possible to direct keep the next screenshots of those that demo about of the telecommunication equipment used past times the BND (click the pictures to enlarge).
One pic shows a larger room which is used every bit an operations centre amongst all the mutual stuff, similar diverse computers, large video screens together with teleconferencing equipment:
In the adjacent pic nosotros come across a smaller operations centre room amongst desks together with a lot of estimator screens:
We come across that every monitor has its ain keyboard together with mouse, which seems non really practical. In the States for example, military machine together with news agencies move so-called KVM-switches, which allows users to piece of job on multiple computers and/or terminals of physically separated networks amongst but 1 keyboard, video hide together with mouse.
H5N1 closed upward of the previous pic gives a somewhat to a greater extent than detailed stance of the equipment:
On the left at that topographic point are estimator screens which demo content within a ruby together with amongst a blueish border. This most probable indicates the classification score of the network they're connected to:
- Blue: VERSCHLUSSSACHE (which equals Confidential)Content without such a edge is evidently unclassified.
- Red: GEHEIM (Secret) or STRENG GEHEIM (Top Secret)
In the centre nosotros come across 2 telephones: at the left a Cisco Unified IP Phone 7961 together with at the correct a rather mutual looking but yet unidentified percentage telephone, which tin endure seen inward the other pictures too. The Cisco telephone is for a Voice over IP (VoIP) network, where the other 1 is in all likelihood percentage of a traditional Private Branch eXchange (PBX) internal telephone system.
In these pictures nosotros come across no secure telephones, ones that are capable of encrypting calls past times themself, similar the ELCRODAT 5-4, made past times the German linguistic communication manufacturer Rohde & Schwarz. Probably BND uses network encryptors to secure the calls earlier they move out the internal network.
That there's also about sum of crazyness, tin endure seen inward this pic of an percentage room, used past times a BND employee who cleary is a hardcore fan of Elvis Presley:
The novel Berlin headquarters
The novel BND headquarters is a huge percentage edifice at the Chausseestraße inward the centre of Berlin. The structure started inward 2006 together with the overall costs for the edifice together with moving the inventory of about 6000 employees are estimated at 1,3 billion Euro.
The architecture practiced Niklas Maak points to a striking departure betwixt the sometime together with the novel headquarters: inward the past, the enemy was known, the communists from the Warsaw Pact, it was known where they came from, together with thus the news means was hidden inward the Bavarian woods. Nowadays, enemies similar terrorists together with hackers are unvisible together with could endure everywhere, but the BND is at 1 time every bit visible every bit it tin be, almost every bit to scare them off.
The novel BND headquarters edifice inward Berlin
(photo: DAPD/TAZ.de)
In the novel edifice each employee has a desk amongst 2 computers together with a telephone, every bit tin endure seen inward this picture:
(photo: Franz Solms-Laubach/BZ-Berlin.de)
There are 2 wide-screen monitors, each 1 amongst its ain keybord together with mouse connected to a estimator device. Apparently the BND nonetheless doesn't desire to move KVM switches.
Update:
Initially, the estimator devices looked similar sparse clients, which but create a virtual desktop environment. All files are stored at centralized servers, which also makes it to a greater extent than tardily to command together with confine the access to sensitive together with hugger-mugger documents. But later, a reader recognized them every bit beingness Fujitsu ESPRIMO Q910 mini PC's, which are modest but fully equipped personal computers. They also direct keep usb-ports, which would permit to connect pollex drives to them.
One of the
- Blue: VERSCHLUSSSACHE (which equals Confidential)
- Red: GEHEIM (Secret) or STRENG GEHEIM (Top Secret)
The telephone on the desk is a Alcatel-Lucent 4068 IP Phone or a similar model, which is a high destination full-featured percentage telephone for Voice over IP networks. Alcatel was a major French telecommunication society which merged amongst the American telephone manufacturer Lucent Technologies inward 2006.
It seems somewhat unusual for an news means to move telephones that are made past times a unusual company, every bit for instance the German linguistic communication society Siemens manufactures telephony equipment for almost a century.
> See also: BND Codewords together with Abbreviations
Links together with sources
- Internal NSA presentation: Structure of the BND (pdf)
- More pictures of the Berlin headquarters: Eröffnung der BND-Zentrale
- H5N1 2006 photobook almost BND Standort Pullach
- Zeit.de: Der BND wird schlecht überwacht
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