How did Denmark become the nest of American cyber espionage in Europe?
According to a media survey, Denmark has helped a US intelligence agency spy on European leaders and has become a key European intelligence hub for the benefit of that country’s intelligence agencies.
Denmark served as an outpost for NSA agents spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other politicians across the Rhine, as well as French, Norwegian and Swedish personalities between 2012 and 2014, if not longer. That revelation, made public on May 30, was the result of an investigation by Danish public television (DR), with the cooperation of several European media outlets, including France’s Le Monde daily.
The ambition of American cyberspies who want to wiretap the whole world, including their allies, is nothing new. Edward Snowden’s 2012 revelations exposed the broad reach of the country’s massive cyber-surveillance program. The Danish TV investigation is based on an internal Danish intelligence report commissioned in 2013 in response to the Snowden scandal, to determine the extent to which the United States had deployed its big ears on Danish soil.
France 24 has published a report in this regard by its correspondent Sabatin Sibat, the text of which was published on the website of this news network, and discusses the background and pivotal role of Denmark in this cooperation.
The author begins his report by emphasizing that the help of Danish spies to the US National Security Agency to gather information from European leaders is not new and that the Scandinavian country has long played a key role in this regard.
The report emphasizes that cooperation between the Danish intelligence services and the United States has strengthened over the years.
The author adds that Denmark had previously become a US National Security Agency database for spying on German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other German, French, Norwegian and Swedish politicians and personalities, at least between 2012 and 2014.
This is the result of a media investigation by a Danish television network in collaboration with several European media outlets, including the newspaper Le Monde, which was published in the media on Sunday, May 30th.
The author then writes that “the ambition of US cyber-spies to eavesdrop and gather from all over the world, including their allies, is unprecedented and not new.”
He cites revelations by Edward Snowden in 2012 that he believed provided insight into the true scale of the US National Security Agency’s extensive cyber espionage program.
The Danish state television investigation is based on an internal report by the country’s intelligence services, which was commissioned in 2013 following a scandal involving the Snowden affair.
The purpose of the study, which led to a controversial revelation about US spying on European leaders, was to find out how much of the big corners of the United States were filled with information gathered on Danish soil.
Denmark’s foreign military intelligence cooperation with the US National Security Agency, highlighted by the media investigation, as well as the selection of Nordic Scandinavia as a base for US spies to land and gather information from US allies on the Old Continent, may come as another surprise.
