The Danish secret services have also spied on European allies with the NSA
The Danish secret services have collaborated with the American NSA to spy on Merkel and other European leaders under the Obama administration. All the details
The Danish secret services have actively collaborated with the US NSA to spy on European officials and exponents under the Obama administration, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to several European media outlets .
Reports of NSA espionage on US allies first came to light in 2013 through revelations from whistleblower Edward Snowden , but the new investigation released last Sunday concerns close collaboration with the Defense Intelligence Service (Fe) in Denmark.
Citing several anonymous sources, the Danish public broadcaster DR and other media outlets in Germany, France, Norway and Sweden reported that a confidential analysis by Danish intelligence examined the NSA's relationship with Fe from 2012 to 2014. This report – dubbed Dunhammer and conducted by four Fe agents following the Snowden revelations and which ended in 2015 – found that the NSA was able to use Danish interception systems on submarine internet cables, with knowledge and l agreement of Denmark.
Media reports describe a Danish-American cooperation system used to monitor and store data from undersea Internet cables. The DR reports that a data center has even been built for this purpose in a Danish intelligence facility on the island of Amager, south of Copenhagen.
Merkel was reportedly among the targets, as were two of her past rivals for the chancellery, Social Democrats Peer Steinbrück and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the latter of whom is now the German president.
Contacted by the news organizations conducting the investigation, the German, Swedish and Norwegian governments said they were unaware of the conclusions of the Danish intelligence report, while the French president's office refused to respond.
Danish Defense Minister Trine Bramsen declined to comment with Dr, writing only that "systematic interception of close allies is unacceptable".
The media survey was carried out in collaboration with the French newspaper Le Monde , the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung , the German broadcasters NDR and WDR and the Swedish ( SVT ) and Norwegian ( NRK ) public broadcasters.
In the wake of the 2013 Snowden reports, Obama has pledged to stop spying on allies. Le Monde said it is unclear at this point whether the espionage via the Danish systems took place before or after this promise.
These revelations, if we can express ourselves not without irony, do nothing but confirm what is stated in the article on the testimony of the American officer and what we had already said in the article on this issue .
One consideration: spying between allies is a common practice. For centuries. The same is true between rivals such as China and Russia. The real world has always had this dynamic. In fact, allies don't mean being friends or brothers.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/servizi-segreti-danesi-nsa/ on Mon, 31 May 2021 07:52:14 +0000.