Head Of Germany's BND (Foreign Intelligence Agemcy) Has Been Fired - War News Media

President of the German Federal Intelligence Agency (BND) Gerhard Schindler arrives for a security cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, November 14, 2015. REUTERS/HANNIBAL HANSCHKE

DW: Media report foreign intelligence agency BND's chief Schindler to be 'replaced'

Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency chief is to be replaced prematurely, according to German media. The 63-year-old Gerhard Schindler has faced parliamentary grillings over his handling of the NSA affair.

Germany's ARD public television network and the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) newspaper said Tuesday that Schindler would be replaced by 53-year-old Bruno Kahl, a senior ministerial aide to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble.

Schindler, a state jurist and government counter-terrorism expert, became BND chief in 2012. The ARD and SZ said the government had not confirmed the reported change - more than two years before Schindler's official retirement.

Schindler had long pleaded for more technical and personal resources and closer cooperation with European and American intelligence services.

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Update: German foreign intelligence chief forced out: media (Reuters)

WNU Editor: It looks like the NSA scandal has claimed another victim .... Head of German Intel Agency Expected to Leave Office Amid NSA Spy Scandal (Sputnik).