German's top domestic spy advised far right xenophobic political party on how to avoid being billed as "extremists"
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3W9C6)
The Alternative For Germany (AfD) is a xenophobic far-right party whose ranks include neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers; in a new tell-all book by "AfD dropout" Franziska Schreiber (once the head of the AfD's youth wing), we learn that party leader Frauke Petry worked closely with Hans-Georg Maaien, the president of Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (a domestic surveillance agency with 3,100 employees and an annual budget of a350m). (more")