Late last week, media reports claimed the Danish Defenсe Intelligence Service helped the US National Security Agency spy on Europe s highest-ranking officials.
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The US National Security Agency (NSA) used a partnership with Denmark’s foreign intelligence unit to spy on senior officials of neighbouring countries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Danish state broadcaster DR said.
The findings are the result of a 2015 internal investigation in the Danish Defence Intelligence Service into NSA’s role in the partnership, DR said, citing nine unnamed sources with access to the investigation.
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According to the investigation, which covered the period from 2012 to 2014, the NSA used Danish information cables to spy on senior officials in Sweden, Norway, France and Germany, including former German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and former German opposition leader Peer Steinbrück.
Operation Dunhammer
Obama’s National Security Agency (NSA) teamed up to with Denmark’s intel unit to spy on our allies, in what was allegedly referred to as “Operation Dunhammer” and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is cool with that.
“I do not think it is correctly put that there is a need to restore relations with France or Germany. We have an ongoing dialogue, and we also have that within intelligence matters,” Denmark’s Frederiksen told local news wire Ritzau.
The NSA allegedly used Danish underwater internet cables to spy on allies, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Other allies allegedly spied upon include senior officials in France, Sweden, Norway, and Germany, including former German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier as well as former German opposition leader Peer Steinbrück, who told German broadcaster ARD he thought it was “grotesque that friendly intelligence services are indeed intercepting and spying on top representatives of ot