Former agent on national security strate • Table.Briefings

Gerhard Conrad is a board member of the discussion group Intelligence Services in Germany. Until 2020, he was chief of the BND management staff and mediated prisoner exchanges between Israel, Hamas and Hezbollah, earning him the name „Mr. Hezbollah“.

Gerhard Conrad, former chief of the management staff of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), argues for an interdepartmental analysis staff docked with the Federal Security Council to increase coordination between military and civilian decision-makers. Markus Bickel spoke with him.

Germany will not have a National Security Council in the future either. Is that regrettable – or is the Federal Chancellery the right place anyway to coordinate the necessary coordination with the line ministries and the federal states in crisis situations?

Former agent on national security strategy: ‘He who talks does not shoot’

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