Former German spy jailed for sharing state secrets with gay lover

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In Munich today, a former German spy was sentenced to two years and three months in prison for sharing top-secret information with his boyfriend, a Macedonian interpreter who he met while on a clandestine mission to Kosovo for the German BND Intelligence Service in 2005.

The former spy, identfied as Robert Anton K (43), was posted to Pristina in 2005 to set up a covert network of informants on behalf of the BND. Among them was a 29-year-old interpreter, identified only as Murat A, who passed BND security checks and later became K's lover. Prosecutors said that after the two men moved in together in 2007, K offered his lover access to classified documents and state secrets. Der Speigel news magazine said that K divulged the secrets "in the bedroom" and by allowing his lover access to his computer.

The BND only learned of the relationship when K's wife, who was still resident in Germany with their children, informed them that her husband had changed his life insurance policy, making A the sole beneficiary. The BNP informed prosecutors and the two men were recalled to Germany and arrested in March 2008.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/05/26/former-german-spy-jailed-for-sharing-state-secrets-with-gay-lover/