Revelations Undermine Trust Toward Iceland’s Allies Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs Guðlaugur Þór Þórðarson. Vala Hafstað
He was referring to revelations, reported by
mbl.is and other media Sunday night, that the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (FE) helped the US National Security Agency (NSA) spy on European leaders, among them German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
“The Danish government knew of the involvement of their country’s secret service in the NSA scandal by 2015 at the latest,”
“They began to collect information on the FE’s cooperation with the NSA between 2012 and 2014 in the secret Dunhammer report following the disclosures by the former NSA employee and whistleblower Edward Snowden. The information they gathered made it clear that the FE had helped the NSA to spy on leading politicians in Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and France, as well as Germany.”
The Icelandic fishing and fish processing company Samherji hf. issued an apology yesterday, admitting the company went too far in its reaction to negative media coverage.
The Environment Agency of Iceland has given the travel agency Arctic Yeti ehf. permission to hold a so-called Volcano UltraMarathon in Iceland June 26-July 3 this summer.