The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has used a partnership with Denmark's foreign intelligence unit to spy on senior officials of neighbouring countries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to Danish state broadcaster DR.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has used a partnership with Denmark's foreign intelligence unit to spy on senior officials of neighbouring countries, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to Danish state broadcaster DR. The findings are the result of an internal investigation in the Danish Defence Intelligence Service from 2015 into NSA's role in the partnership, DR said, citing nine unnamed sources with access to the investigation.
The NSA scandal began back in 2013 when the German media published the revelations of former CIA agent Edward Snowden. Since then, the story has grown bigger, it turned.
An Off-the-Shelf Guide to Extended Continental Shelves and the Arctic
A Canadian Coast Guard Ship in the Arctic Ocean. (U.S. Geological Survey, https://flic.kr/p/7EbKVD; CC0 1.0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
On March 31, the Russian Federation partially revised its submission for an “extended” continental shelf in the Arctic, further overlapping Russia’s claims with Canada’s and Denmark’s. Despite political and academic experts calling for a calm response, CBC, Canada’s largest broadcaster, framed the submission in dire terms. Canadian academic Robert Huebert described Russia’s claim as worrying and related to Russian troop movements in Ukraine.