BREAKING: Germany Arrests Suspected Double Agent Spying for U.S.

An employee of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency has been arrested on suspicion of spying for the United States, Reuters is reporting.

The man, who is German, has admitted passing to an American contact details about a special German parliamentary committee set up to investigate the spying revelations made by former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the politicians said.

Bild newspaper said in an advance copy of an article to be published on Saturday that the man had worked for two years as a double agent and had stolen 218 confidential documents.

He sold the documents, three of which related to the work of the committee in the Bundestag, for 25,000 euros ($34,100), Bild said, citing security sources.