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Monday, May 31, 2021 at 6:21 am | כ סיון תשפ א
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (Reuters) -
Monday, May 31, 2021 at 6:21 am | כ סיון תשפ א
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod elbow bump at the end of a joint news conference following meetings at the Danish Foreign Ministry in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 17. (Saul Loeb/Pool via Reuters/File Photo)
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) used a partnership with Denmark‘s foreign intelligence unit to spy on senior officials of neighboring countries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Danish state broadcaster DR said.
The findings are the result of a 2015 internal investigation in the Danish Defense Intelligence Service into NSA’s role in the partnership, DR said, citing nine unnamed sources with access to the investigation.
Jan M. Olsen
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference after a coronavirus COVID-19 vaccination summit of the federal and state governments at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany Thursday May 27, 2021. (Annegret Hilse/Pool via AP) May 31, 2021 - 3:42 AM
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) â Sweden s defense minister wants Denmark to explain why that country s foreign secret service allegedly helped the United States spy on European leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, more than seven years ago.
âWe want the cards on the table,â said Defense Minister Peter Hulqvist, adding it was âunacceptable to eavesdrop on allies.â
On Monday, Danish lawmaker Karsten Hoenge of the left-leaning Socialist Peopleâs Party, which is supporting Denmark s Social Democratic government, said he would quiz the Scandinavian country s defense and justice ministers in parliament about the case.