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The German foreign intelligence service — the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) — plans to move its headquarters from the small town of Pullach near Munich in the south of Germany to the capital, Berlin, probably in 2017. Reportedly, about 4000 BND staff will change their offices and an unknown number of secret files, documents, recordings, weapons and instruments will have to be brought across Germany from the Bavarian countryside to the pulsating centre of Berlin. Whereas the old base was about 600 kilometres away from the German Federal Chancellor and the German Parliament, in future it will be only about one kilometre away from the central political buildings of Germany.
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Reichmann, W., Müller, AL. (2015). The Secrets of Architecture’s Action. In: Müller, AL., Reichmann, W. (eds) Architecture, Materiality and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137461131_2
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