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Might be unrelated, but there is one that could pass as conspiracy theory, well-sourced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG

This is a 30 year old story?

How is this relevant at all?

> On 11 February 2020, The Washington Post, ZDF and SRF revealed that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence

It was defunct on 2018. That is not 30 years ago.

User telmo wanted a source for spying on citizens. I provided an example of that. It is not exactly what he asked for, but it is not nothing.

> The company was secretly purchased for US $5.75 million and jointly owned by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and West German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) from 1970 until about 1993, with the CIA continuing as sole owner until about 2018.

Literally the second sentence of the link you posted.

So no relevance in the context of Germany and BND.

Fair enough. Germany's BND involvement ended in 1993 it seems. Not so relevant anymore.

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