Ambassador summoned by Danish Foreign Ministry over spying mission
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen will summon the US ambassador in Copenhagen to the Danish Foreign Ministry, Danish media report. The announcement comes after the Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration had given an order to spy on Greenland.
Løkke Rasmussen tells TV2 that the information is worrying.
- You don't spy on friends. I can't know if it's true because it's in a newspaper. But it doesn't seem to be particularly strongly rejected by those who speak out, he says.
Sources: US orders spying on Greenland
US intelligence agencies are being asked to step up their collection of information about Greenland, two sources with insight told The Wall Street Journal. The aim is to identify people in both Greenland and Denmark who back Donald Trump's ambitions to take control of Greenland.
According to the sources, a classified memo was sent to several US government officials last week. The intelligence agencies – whose tools include surveillance satellites, communications intercepts and spies on the ground – are being asked to gather information, among other things, on Greenland’s independence movement and attitudes towards US resource extraction.
US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard wrote in an email to the newspaper that “the WSJ should be ashamed to be helping ‘deep state’ actors who are trying to undermine the president by politicising and leaking classified information.”
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen will summon the US ambassador in Copenhagen to the Danish Foreign Ministry, Danish media report. The announcement comes after the Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration had given an order to spy on Greenland.
Løkke Rasmussen tells TV2 that the information is worrying.
- You don't spy on friends. I can't know if it's true because it's in a newspaper. But it doesn't seem to be particularly strongly rejected by those who speak out, he says.
Sources: US orders spying on Greenland
US intelligence agencies are being asked to step up their collection of information about Greenland, two sources with insight told The Wall Street Journal. The aim is to identify people in both Greenland and Denmark who back Donald Trump's ambitions to take control of Greenland.
According to the sources, a classified memo was sent to several US government officials last week. The intelligence agencies – whose tools include surveillance satellites, communications intercepts and spies on the ground – are being asked to gather information, among other things, on Greenland’s independence movement and attitudes towards US resource extraction.
US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard wrote in an email to the newspaper that “the WSJ should be ashamed to be helping ‘deep state’ actors who are trying to undermine the president by politicising and leaking classified information.”
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