German security forces arrest former secret service agent for allegedly offering state secrets online

A FORMER porn star has been arrested by Germany’s Secret Service after allegedly selling sensitive information.

Austrian teenage jihadists Samra Kesinovic and Sabina Selimovic are thought to have died after fleeing home to fight for the Islamic State. In Germany, a man has been arrested after allegedly offering to give away state secrets that could fall into Islamic State hands.

GERMANY’S Secret Service is facing a crisis after one of its own agents turned out to be a former porn star turned alleged jihadist who was reportedly selling state secrets in online chat rooms.

Security officials have been left red-faced after the “unobtrusive” agent they hired in April was found claiming to have infiltrated the secret service and offering details of the headquarters in Cologne, according to reports.

The former marketing executive and father of four, known only as Roque M, was uncovered after unwittingly bragging to another undercover agent using the same chatroom. Security officials said the 51-year-old was using the same alias he had used to start in gay porn films as recently as 2011.

The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution known as the BfV said: “The office for the protection of the constitution has managed to expose a suspected Islamist among its associates.”

It’s unclear exactly how much information made its way into dangerous hands or whether the agent had any direct links with the Islamic State.

“The man behaved inconspicuously during his employment process, training and in his area of responsibility,” the BfV spokesman said. “There is no evidence to date that there is a concrete danger to the security of the BfV or its employees.

“The man is accused of making Islamist statements on the internet using a false name and of revealing internal agency material in internet chatrooms.”

The bizarre case has raised a host of questions over how the man managed to get the job in the first place. It’s believed he converted to Islam in 2014 and security officials told The Washington Post he admitted he had joined the agency to feedback information to his “religious brothers”.

“With all the information coming out about this individual, the question has to be raised: how he was able to end up in the intelligence service and was able to hide all this from his workplace but also his family,” one official said.

German politician Hans-Christian Ströbele, who is charged with overseeing the secret service, said the fact the agency hired someone it was trying to protect the German public from is “scary.”

“It’s not only a rather bizarre, but also a quite scary, story that an agency, whose central role it is to engage in counterespionage, hired an Islamist who potentially had access to classified information, who might have even tried to spread Islamist propaganda and to recruit others to let themselves be hired by and possibly launch an attack” he said.

The agency “needs to tell us immediately what exactly happened and how it could happen that somebody like this was hired.”

Terrorism has been a hot-button issue in Germany following Angela Merkel’s decision to waive the Dublin rules on asylum for Syrian migrants which critics say could allow IS members to slip through the border undetected.

In July this year IS claimed responsibility for two attacks which wounded 20 in total. Nine people also died in a mass killing at a shopping centre in Munich carried out by a German-Iranian 18-year-old.