The agent, who worked for Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND, is believed to have had access to secret information about the Ukraine war from Britain’s GCHQ spy agency and the US’s National Security Agency.It said that one of his responsibilities was to analyse information obtained through wiretaps and he also had access to wiretap operations by other Western security services, including in the UK and US.Wolfgang Kubicki, vice chairman of the FDP party and a member of the ruling coalition, said he was concerned that the scandal could affect ties between the BND and its counterparts overseas.“If information could get to Russia from the BND, that will make cooperation with our partners even more difficult,” he told the financial daily Handelsblatt.German authorities have warned for several years that Russia has stepped up its efforts to penetrate intelligence circles, and have conducted several investigations into Russian espionage since the war broke out on February 24."