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WASHINGTON - A German defense official under investigation for alleged spying was in contact with a US State Department officer rather than American intelligence agencies Womens Mike Green Jersey , raising questions about whether any espionage occurred, US officials familiar with the case told Reuters on Friday.


The officials, who are knowledgeable about the details of the case, said the US government believes the relationship between the German defense official and his State Department contact was a friendship.


If that is borne out by the on-going German investigation, it could help cool a crisis in US-German security cooperation that has seen two Germans probed for spying for Washington and Germany's expulsion of the top US intelligence official in Berlin. German defense official appears murkier than the other, separate incident, which came earlier. In that case Womens Gordie Howe Jersey , an employee of Germany's foreign intelligence agency, known as the BND, was arrested on suspicion of spying for the CIA and possibly Russia.


The two cases, which followed revelations last year of US electronic eavesdropping on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have chilled security ties between the two countries.


On Thursday, the German government said it was taking the nearly unprecedented step of asking the CIA station chief, who coordinates US intelligence cooperation with German counterparts Authentic Dylan Larkin Jersey , to leave the country.


In the case of the German defense official, although his workspace and residence were raided by police several days ago, he had not been arrested as of Friday, a German government source said.


Reuters is withholding the individual's name from publication. The administration of President Barack Obama hopes the German investigation will prove unproductive and will be closed without any arrest, two officials said. However, Germany's probe is continuing.


The State Department declined comment. Caitlin Hayden, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council Authentic Frans Nielsen Jersey , said: "We're not going to comment on the details of a German law enforcement matter."


US agencies have also refused public comment on the BND employee's case. However, US government officials privately acknowledged that the BND employee had been in contact with the CIA and that the agency believed it had obtained valuable information from him.


Some security and intelligence officials have raised questions about whether the CIA should have continued to work with the BND informant after the eavesdropping revelations last year, based on documents leaked by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, sparked tensions in US-German relations.


Germans were particularly angered by the disclosure, based on documents provided by Snowden, that Merkel's cellphone was on an NSA list of eavesdropping targets.


By Xinhua Writers Bai Xu, Teng Junwei Authentic Mike Green Jersey , Cheng Lu and Zhu Qing


WEIHAI, Shandong Province, July 25 (Xinhua) -- One hundred and twenty years ago, China's sailors set forth from the port of Weihai in east China's Shandong Province to take on the invading Japanese fleet, only to be completely defeated in about six months. The remains of many a once mighty ship lie in the depth of the sea even today.


As anniversary of the First Sino-Japanese War approaches, Xinhua reporters took to the waves aboard a coastguard vessel to visit the relics of battle.


TRACING THE WAR


The war which started in 1894 is commonly known in China as the Jiawu War. China's traditional calendar follows a sixty-year cycle and sixtieth anniversaries are considered very important. Both 1894 and 2014 are jiawu years: the year of the wood horse.


On July 25, 1894 Authentic Gordie Howe Jersey , the Japanese fleet attacked two Chinese vessels off the Korean port of Asan. At the time, Korea was a tributary of Qing Empire (1644-1911). By March 1895, the Chinese land army and navy were routed; the first time