"Sabotage, espionage, cyber attacks and targeted campaigns, especially by Russia."
"Targeted campaigns aim at influencing the decision-making of individuals and governments, for example, through the dissemination of misinformation and propaganda."
"The fear of those men in leather coats who came at dawn to kidnap the defenseless who had been denounced by cowards and took them to torture chambers and concentration camps."
Verfassungsschutz traditionally monitors politically and religiously motivated extremism while now also prioritizing hybrid threats that emerged after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Hybrid threats include sabotage, espionage, cyber attacks and targeted influence campaigns aimed at shaping decisions and spreading misinformation and propaganda. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution remains constantly alert to both longstanding and evolving dangers. The agency was founded on November 7, 1950, partly in response to Cold War espionage and military competition. Historical fear of Gestapo abuses shaped early public resistance and led to strict limits on the agency's powers.
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