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 "slug": "mad-annual-report-2025-sabotage-threat-increased-considerably-russian-espionage-priority-target-610-cases-lithuania-station-rosenberg",
 "title": "German Military Counter-Intelligence Says the Sabotage Threat \"Increased Considerably\" in 2025",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/mad-annual-report-2025-sabotage-threat-increased-considerably-russian-espionage-priority-target-610-cases-lithuania-station-rosenberg/",
 "canonical": "https://www.grosswald.org/mad-annual-report-2025-sabotage-threat-increased-considerably-russian-espionage-priority-target-610-cases-lithuania-station-rosenberg/",
 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2026-09-14T16:54:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-09-17T16:55:30.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCologne, 14 September 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * The Militärischer Abschirmdienst (MAD), the Bundeswehr's counter-intelligence service under president Martina Rosenberg, published its annual report for 2025 on 14 September; the MAD law in force since 9 January requires a public report each year\n * The report says the threat potential from sabotage, particularly through low-level agents, has \"increased considerably\", that \"the hybrid threat situation in Germany has further intensified\", ",
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  "germany"
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 "domains": [
  "grey-zone-hybrid"
 ],
 "capabilities": [],
 "tags": [
  "grey-zone-hybrid",
  "dez-german-defense-zeitenwende"
 ],
 "sources": [],
 "entities": [
  "bundeswehr",
  "germany",
  "nato",
  "russia"
 ],
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  "countries": [
   "germany",
   "russia"
  ],
  "domains": [
   "alliance-policy"
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