What Peter Gridling is currently experiencing is belated satisfaction: since the espionage affair broke, the former head of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Austria’s longest-serving spymaster has warned about the risks of the hard right Freedom party coming back to ...

Austria’s counter-intelligence chief says he is pleased that European Union nerve centre Brussels is now a bigger den of spies than Vienna, though hundreds of foreign agents still work under ...

Unusual raid On February 28, Vienna's EGS police squad – normally assigned to pursuing street criminals and burglars, raided Gridling's agency and homes of some BVT staff on the orders of ...