Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the German Federal Intelligence Service BND has been pushed to the wall. Due to an increasing number of failures and mistakes, her name constantly ends up on the front pages of German newspapers. But what is really hidden behind these scams? And what secret information is kept in the BND vaults? Dr. Udo Ulfkotte, editor of one of the most respected German newspapers, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), and author of several books, including on the political situation in Middle East region, was apparently the very first journalist who managed to look behind the scenes of German foreign intelligence. In his fascinating book, he describes, often critically, sometimes with irony, the hitherto hidden successes and failures of the BND, casts a glance at the training and nature of the work of German intelligence officers in the age of satellites, global computer networks and digital telephone communications, and makes clearer many related with the work of intelligence services, the vicissitudes of modern international politics. Dr. Ulfkotte talks about the structure of the Federal Intelligence Service, the old and new tasks of its departments. Much attention is paid to such burning issues of our time as the international arms trade, organized crime, drug trafficking, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and how the BND fights this. Does Germany need foreign intelligence today? When did the first spies appear? How are agents recruited? Why don’t they teach shooting and hand-to-hand combat at the BND intelligence school? How safe is the Internet? Who else, besides you and your interlocutor, listens to your telephone conversations? Why does counterintelligence “love” mobile phones? What is visible from the satellite? How much does BND cost? Why does the BND cooperate with other intelligence services in the world? Who sells Scud missiles? What is the “plutonium scam”? Should foreign intelligence spy on gangsters? You will find answers to these and other questions in the book “Top Secret: BND.” The book also includes articles by invited authors. Former BND president Heribert Hellenbroich discusses whether the BND should engage in industrial espionage, and Israeli author Gad Shimron talks about little-known facts of cooperation between the BND and the Israeli intelligence service Mossad. At the end of the book you will find a list of BND presidents, as well as Internet addresses dedicated to world of intelligence.