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A second possible spying case in less than a week聽emerged in Germany today, feeding into the growing frustration and fear among Germans that American espionage has no limits.

The cases come as Germany attempts to normalize relations with the US over earlier NSA spying allegations. The new revelations threaten to bring German opinion of the US to new lows, and derail the transatlantic agenda.

The German Federal Prosecutor鈥檚 office confirmed that it is investigating a second possible case, after German media reported that a German man may have been spying for the US in the military industry. The German defense ministry is involved in the inquiry and聽taking the case 鈥渧ery seriously,鈥� ministry spokesman Uwe Roth told reporters.

Very little information is known about the man who is suspected of being a US spy. Police have searched his rooms and offices in Berlin. The New York Times cited Germany鈥檚聽Die Welt newspaper, which said the suspect was a German soldier who has passed information to US military intelligence.

In the first case, which emerged last week and is also still under investigation, German media reported that a man working for Germany鈥檚 intelligence agency was arrested for handing documents to the CIA.

Asked about that case, specifically a Spiegel Online report that CIA Director John Brennan contacted the chancellery, Chancellor Angela Merkel said: 鈥淚 can only say that talks are taking place, but I can鈥檛 say anything about the outcome."

The US ambassador to Germany, John Emerson, was called to the Foreign Ministry to clarify facts in the first probe, just hours before the annual July 4 celebrations at the embassy in Berlin. Mr. Emerson returned to the ministry again today.

The Monitor reported yesterday in a聽story about the first probe, there are many factors at stake in the bilateral relationship聽as anti-Americanism grows in Germany.聽

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