Several undercover officers in Germany's federal and state criminal offices were acting for years as double agents of sorts, working simulaneously for the German government while engaging in criminal activity within the neo-Nazi music scene, according to German news reports published in the past week.

Reports revealed that Mirko H., now serving a two-year sentence for participating in the production of a CD by the neo-Nazi band "Landser," was also an informer with the federal Constitutional Protection Office. Landser's CD calls for violence against the German Parliament and the German government, for the murder of foreigners and for the bombing of Israel.

In a related incident earlier this summer, the agent Toni S. was arrested by Berlin police during a raid on the right-wing music scene. Afterwards it was revealed that the 27-year-old was not just producing neo-Nazi CDs, but was also working as an agent for the Constitutional Protection Office in the federal state of Brandenburg.

The revelation has put significant pressure on Brandenburg's Interior Minister Jörg Schönbohm (Christian Democrat), who acknowledged in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung newspaper that the office knew that at least one of its agents was involved in criminal activity.

Schönbohm justified the action by arguing it would be difficult to infiltrate the right-wing scene with well-behaved agents.

Politicians Under Pressue

Green Party leaders in neighboring Berlin called on Monday for Schönbohm’s resignation, saying that the German Constitution makes it very clear that federal agents are not permitted to engage in criminal activity.

Federal Interior Minister Otto Schily (Social Democrat) also came under attack on Monday, as opposition party leaders called for a special August session of the Bundestag’s interior committee to investigate the situation.

Schönbohm said Berlin police put other agents in danger by revealing Toni S.'s double-agent status. His ministry referred to the action as "indescretion of an intolerable dimension."

The Berlin state's attorney, meanwhile, reported that the agent and his boss at the Constitutional Protection Office were involved with producing a CD for the band "White Aryan Rebels." The CD calls for the murder of politicians, artists, Jews and Boris Becker’s children, among other things.