Intel way out

Help for troubled spies - How to leave intelligence agencies

There are exit help services in Germany for neo-Nazis and Islamists who need a way out. But intelligence agencies are equally difficult to find a way out of. A new campaign - Intelexit.org - organized by the German social justice collective Peng was set up this week to help intelligence agents with scruples to "leave the intelligence services and build a new life," as its promotional leaflet says.

The campaign has mischievously placed outdoor billboards with slogans like "Listen to your heart. Not to private calls" in Europe and the US wherever conscience-ridden intelligence officials are likely to be found.

The posters have appeared outside the headquarters of the NSA in Fort Meade, near Washington DC, but also in front of the headquarters of its German and British equivalents, the BND and GCHQ, as well as the NSA's "Dagger Complex" base near Darmstadt, Germany, and the US embassy in Berlin.