The
Federal Intelligence Service (German: (,
BND; CIA code name
CASCOPE) is the foreign
intelligence agency of
Germany, directly subordinated to the
Chancellor's Office. Its headquarters are in
Pullach near
Munich, and
Berlin (planned to be centralised in Berlin by 2016, with about 4,000 people). The BND has 300 locations in Germany and foreign countries. In 2005, the BND employed around 6,050 people, 10% of them soldiers; those are officially employed by the (Office for Military Sciences). The annual budget of the BND for 2015 is
€615,577,000.