Germany Raised Concerns With Austria About Spy Links to Russia
- In 2019, Germany feared two agents may have helped Moscow
- One of the former spies has publicly rejected the allegations
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Germany feared Russian intelligence services were getting help from Austrian spies in a sign of heightened alert about meddling by the Kremlin in Europe’s affairs.
Germany’s federal police, or BKA, approached Austria in 2019 over allegations that two of the country’s agents had passed on sensitive information to Moscow, according to a document seen by Bloomberg News.