Denmark’s secret solutions aided the UNITED STATE National Safety Firm spy on European authorities, consisting of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, under the Barack Obama management, according to records by several European information electrical outlets.
Records of the NSA snooping on UNITED STATE allies initially emerged in 2013 with disclosures by whistleblower Edward Snowden, yet the brand-new examination released Sunday information affirmed assistance from the Protection Knowledge Solution (FE) in Denmark, Germany’s north next-door neighbor.
Pointing out several unrevealed resources, Danish public broadcaster DR as well as various other wire service in Germany, France, Norway as well as Sweden reported that a private Danish knowledge evaluation evaluated the NSA’s connection with FE from 2012 to2014 This supposed Dunhammer record, carried out by 4 specialized FE representatives adhering to the Snowden discoveries as well as ended in 2015, discovered that the NSA had the ability to make use of Danish eavesdropping systems on submarine web cable televisions, with Denmark’s understanding as well as contract.
The media records define a system of Danish-American collaboration made use of to surveil as well as equip information from undersea web cable televisions. DR records that an information facility was also constructed for that function at a Danish knowledge center on the island of Amager, southern of Copenhagen.
Merkel was apparently amongst the targets, along with 2 of her previous opponents for the chancellery, Social Democrats Peer Steinbrück as well as Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the latter of whom is currently the German head of state. DR additionally reported that top-level authorities had actually been surveilled from France, Norway as well as Sweden, though did not call them.
Gotten in touch with by the wire service carrying out the examination, the German, Swedish as well as Norwegian federal governments stated they had actually not understood the Danish knowledge record’s verdicts, while the workplace of the French head of state decreased to react.
Danish Protection Priest Trine Bramsen decreased to comment to DR, creating just that “methodical interception of close allies is undesirable.”
The media examination was carried out in partnership with French paper