Officials ran a check on the online alias he assumed in radical chat rooms.
From there, his story took a stranger turn. The German citizen of Spanish descent confessed to secretly converting to Islam in 2014. Only then would the extent of his double life become clear. He was offering to help Islamists infiltrate his agency's defenses to stage a strike.Īgents lured him into a private chat, and he gave away so many details about the spy agency - and his own directives within it to thwart Islamists - that they quickly identified him, arresting the 51-year-old the next day. The man claimed to be one of them - and said he was a German spy.
Two weeks ago, German intelligence agents noticed an unusual user in a chat room known as a digital hideout for Islamic militants.
