Report: German Spy Arrested for Ties to Islamic Militants Revealed to be Ex Gay Porn Star

A new report from The Washington Post claims a German spy who was arrested two weeks ago, after being caught helping Islamic militants in a "digital hideout" to "infiltrate his agency's defense to stage a strike," was once a gay porn actor.

German intelligence noticed "an unusual user in a chat room known as a digital hideout for Islamic militants." After the man said he was "one of them" and confessed to be a German spy, the agents lured him into another chat, where he gave away information about the spy agency and his own directives. That lead to his arrest where authorities booked the 51-year-old man of Spanish decent the next day. The spy confessed to converting to Islam in 2014.

After officials did an online search of the handle he used in the chatroom, they discovered the spy, a married father of four, used the handle as his stage name in gay porn. The most recent use of the alias was in 2011, according to The Washington Post.

The newspaper reports officials said Tuesday they arrested the man on suspicion of preparing to commit a violent act and for violating state security laws. The German newspaper Der Spiegel was the first to report on the arrest.

But two anonymous German officials spoke to The Washington Post, revealing the spy's secret gay porn career "could cast a fresh light on the judgment and vetting of the German intelligence agency at a critical time."

"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" against the domestic intelligence agency, Hans-Christian Str�bele, a member of the Parliamentary Control Committee that oversees the work of the German intelligence services, told The Washington Post. He added the agency "needs to tell us immediately what exactly happened and how it could happen that somebody like this was hired."

Though the authorities are not revealing the spy's name nor his gay porn alias, they insist he was vetted properly, adding they interviewed former employees and others who knew him.

"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," an anonymous senior law enforcement official told The Washington Post.

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