Espionage & Counter-Espionage in Switzerland

Protagonist

Büro-HA / P-26 / P-27

Period

1933-1992

Nature

Counter-espionage

Main location

Bern, Switzerland · Switzerland

MICE motive

Ego — wounded pride

From Büro-HA, a press agency used as cover (1933), to the secret armies P-26/P-27, the neutral Confederation built a discreet intelligence service watching its German, French and Italian neighbours. The revelation of the clandestine networks in 1990 caused a scandal and led to their dissolution.