“I wrote a satirical piece and they took it as an instruction manual,” cracked former senior CIA ops officer Luis Rueda, reacting to news that “at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.”
Back in June, Rueda, a veteran of U.S. intrigues in the Middle East, wrote a piece for SpyTalk called “How to Take Greenland,” a tongue-in-cheek jibe advising Trump to forgo an invasion of the mineral-rich Danish territory in favor of generating the conditions for a sneaky coup. Apparently some Trump partisans—neither their names nor sponsoring agency, if any, were identified—took his cue and started mucking around in Nuuk, the capital, trying to find friends and stoke anti-Danish sentiment.