The German Federal Intelligence Service Bundesnachrichtendienst operates its electronic intelligence department from Stockdorf.
The Bad Aibling Station (abbreviated BAS, also known as Field station 81, which had an official designation as the 18th United States Army Security Agency Field Station, or as the pseudonym Hortensie III) is a satellite tracking station operated by the German intelligence agency Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) in Bad Aibling, Bavaria.
Reinhard Gehlen (1902–1979), German WW II general and first director, Bundesnachrichtendienst
The headquarters of the intelligence agency of the German government, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), is located in Pullach, making it a metonym for the BND just like Langley is for the CIA.