Project 6

As Project 6 (P6 ) a from 2005 to 2010 carried out secret operation of the German Federal Intelligence Service, the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution and the U.S. CIA is referred to, whose aim was, in a database PX information about jihadists, terrorist supporters and members of the Islamist milieus to collect.

Revealed was the operation in September 2013 by the news magazine Der Spiegel. The secret operation according to Spiegel also specializes in investigative journalism NDR journalist Stefan Buchen was being targeted because he phoned his research with an Islamist preacher in Yemen and Afghanistan several times visited. He had appeared in U.S. documents in 2010 with his passport and mobile number and his date of birth.

In the database, around 1100 information had been stored by almost 200 people, but the disks were destroyed after the project's end in 2010 according to the Federal Ministry of the Interior. According to the constitutional protection the used database was provided by the United States are available, but have no technical connection to the IT infrastructure of the Federal Office for Protection of the Constitution had. The supply and access to the data was performed according to office by intelligence authorities and not by employees of the CIA. This representation doubted the mirror as CIA employees were working according to his information with their German colleagues over the years from a legendierten apartment in Neuss out.

The parliamentary oversight committee was thus informed about the project, according to 6, according to constitutional protection on August 12, 2013, and only after the first mirror requests to the appropriate authorities.

Privacy and policy discussion

The Federal Data Protection Commissioner Peter Schaar criticized the lack of transparency of the operation. The database was unknown to him. He said such a project would all activities logged and are subject to the data protection monitoring.

The Federal Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser -Schnarrenberger demanded in relation to the intelligence cooperation with the United States a fundamental reform of the security architecture. The control of the German intelligence services must undergo a legal clarification that prevents an unauthorized institutionalized cooperation of the Federal Intelligence Service with foreign services, said Leutheusser -Schnarrenberger. She stands with her ​​criticism against the Interior Ministry. There you had any criticism back in the project 6.