1982 seizure of the Polish embassy in Bern
Secret documents
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==Secret documents== |
==Secret documents== |
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It was revealed in 2013 that around the time that the rescue operation occurred, members of the [[Federal Intelligence Service (Switzerland)|Federal Intelligence Service]] of Switzerland violated the [[Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations]] and illegally entered the embassy, seized diplomatic documents, brought them to the nearby federal prosecutor's office, photocopied them, and then returned them to the embassy. These documents contained reconnaissance reports about Swiss military airports, secret agents, Germany and |
It was revealed in 2013 that around the time that the rescue operation occurred, members of the [[Federal Intelligence Service (Switzerland)|Federal Intelligence Service]] of Switzerland violated the [[Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations]] and illegally entered the embassy, seized diplomatic documents, brought them to the nearby federal prosecutor's office, photocopied them, and then returned them to the embassy. These documents contained reconnaissance reports about Swiss military airports, secret agents, Germany and [[NATO]]. When Swiss authorities returned documents to the Polish military attaché, among them a dossier labeled "Nato", the attaché stated that he has never seen the documents before. The police had not taken any pictures of the secret archive or the work place of the military attaché for unknown reasons.Julian Schmidli, Martin Stoll, Balz Spörri: ''[http://dok.sonntagszeitung.ch/2014/botschaftsakten/ Die Botschaftsakten], in: [[SonntagsZeitung]]. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20170706122805/http://dok.sonntagszeitung.ch/2014/botschaftsakten/ archived])'' |
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Benno Schneider, head of the task force for hostage situations (''Sonderstab Geiselnahmen'') explicitly ordered that the documents be copied and then returned (''«Ich erteilte den Auftrag, wies die Beteiligten an, die Akten zu kopieren und nachher unversehrt in die Botschaft zurückzustellen.»''). Despite consistent denial of secret seizure of the documents when talking to the press, Furgler has approved of copying the documents. An official report states that some of the documents were accidentally taken from the embassy in midst of the general disorder and heat of the moment. |
Benno Schneider, head of the task force for hostage situations (''Sonderstab Geiselnahmen'') explicitly ordered that the documents be copied and then returned (''«Ich erteilte den Auftrag, wies die Beteiligten an, die Akten zu kopieren und nachher unversehrt in die Botschaft zurückzustellen.»''). Despite consistent denial of secret seizure of the documents when talking to the press, Furgler has approved of copying the documents. An official report states that some of the documents were accidentally taken from the embassy in midst of the general disorder and heat of the moment. |
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