BERLIN (Alliance News) - Germany is to send a delegation to the US next week over suspicions that a US spy agency bugged Chancellor Angela Merkel's mobile phone, a Berlin politician said Thursday.

Hartfrid Wolff spoke after attending a closed-door briefing for parliament's intelligence committee by a top Merkel aide, Ronald Pofalla. During his own remarks later to the press, Pofalla made no mention of the trip.

No details were available about who would be on the delegation, who it would meet or whether it had any appointments yet.

Wolff is in the process of retiring after he lost his parliamentary seat as a member of the Free Democratic Party in last month's election. /jac/jbp/DP