By Lena Roche
Published on
21/08/2026 - 11:23 GMT+2
In a forest near Berlin, officials have discovered a cache containing highly sensitive material. According to information obtained by WDR, NDR and the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), two live firearms were stored in the professionally set-up depot.
Who placed them there? Germany's domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), is reported to have indications that it is a hideout used by Russian security services. It is a secret drop site for materials and information, known only to the sender and recipient and referred to among agents as a "dead letterbox".
