> The 57-year-old spy chief was arrested on December 8, 2021 and has since been in custody. There has been a name ban in the case, which is why Politiken and other media have been barred from telling the public about the spectacular fact that a spy chief has been sent to prison, but the Copenhagen City Court has this morning lifted the name ban. Therefore, it is now allowed to tell that Lars Findsen has spent Christmas and New Year behind bars, because the Police Intelligence Service (PET) and the prosecution accuse him of revealing some of the state’s deepest secrets. The spy chief has been under a lengthy interception, Politiken learns.
Holy crap
I guess he was a spy after all.
Damn!
When was the last time a European country had a mole that high up in their intelligence community?
Would it be Kim Philby of the “Cambridge Five” in the UK?
Reading between the lines: this guy (and the others not named) are accused of co-operating ‘too much’ with the USA’s NSA?
Presumably this was a DK-USA intelligence co-operation that went beyond politically-sanctioned limits?
Wonder if it’s linked to the undersea cables spying. Denmark had been spying on France, Norway, Germany, Sweden on behalf of the USA.
If this concerns the NSA scandal, maybe went something like this: getting that sweet US intel in exchange for NSA-Danish Defence Intelligence Service cooperation (no legal problem if politically backed) —> NSA cooperation is over —> Danish Defence Intelligence Service got used to that sweet US intel but no longer receives any as the cooperation is over —> under pressure to perform or because they became dependent on the US to fill certain intelligence gaps, they sell out state secrets for new US intel (not politically backed, legal problem).
This is speculation just for fun but smaller countries becoming dependent on intel from a major country is a real risk during intelligence cooperation.
This is absolutely not what paragraph 109 of the Danish penal code says.
There is little information available right now, but seems to be either:
A: He leaked information to the US, or have negotiated illegal access to Danish Data. Not really anything new. NSA having illegal access to our data has been obvious for quite some time. And the government have always be too cooperative with the US. But maybe it was this guy all along?
B: He leaked to the press that such illegal activities are happening.
Bonus: The current defense minister have previously denied anyone illegally spying on us, but she is also incredibly incompetent. “We have no reason to think the US is spying on us. There is no way of investigating it. What are we supposed to do? Call them and Say ‘Hello this is Denmark, are you spying on us?'” – Trine Bramsen. See [https://nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2014-05-06-trine-bramsen-haenges-ud-paa-twitter-efter-tv-2-indslag](https://nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2014-05-06-trine-bramsen-haenges-ud-paa-twitter-efter-tv-2-indslag)
It’s all for shows. Denmark is still giving Washington whatever they demand. They just needed blood for what happend last year to please the masses.
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Using google translate:
> The 57-year-old spy chief was arrested on December 8, 2021 and has since been in custody. There has been a name ban in the case, which is why Politiken and other media have been barred from telling the public about the spectacular fact that a spy chief has been sent to prison, but the Copenhagen City Court has this morning lifted the name ban. Therefore, it is now allowed to tell that Lars Findsen has spent Christmas and New Year behind bars, because the Police Intelligence Service (PET) and the prosecution accuse him of revealing some of the state’s deepest secrets. The spy chief has been under a lengthy interception, Politiken learns.
Holy crap
I guess he was a spy after all.
Damn!
When was the last time a European country had a mole that high up in their intelligence community?
Would it be Kim Philby of the “Cambridge Five” in the UK?
Reading between the lines: this guy (and the others not named) are accused of co-operating ‘too much’ with the USA’s NSA?
Presumably this was a DK-USA intelligence co-operation that went beyond politically-sanctioned limits?
Oups, call it [occupational habit](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57302806).
Wonder if it’s linked to the undersea cables spying. Denmark had been spying on France, Norway, Germany, Sweden on behalf of the USA.
If this concerns the NSA scandal, maybe went something like this: getting that sweet US intel in exchange for NSA-Danish Defence Intelligence Service cooperation (no legal problem if politically backed) —> NSA cooperation is over —> Danish Defence Intelligence Service got used to that sweet US intel but no longer receives any as the cooperation is over —> under pressure to perform or because they became dependent on the US to fill certain intelligence gaps, they sell out state secrets for new US intel (not politically backed, legal problem).
This is speculation just for fun but smaller countries becoming dependent on intel from a major country is a real risk during intelligence cooperation.
Well can’t read that.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-10/danish-intelligence-chief-jailed-following-surveillance-scandal
The only article in English I can find so far.
This is absolutely not what paragraph 109 of the Danish penal code says.
There is little information available right now, but seems to be either:
A: He leaked information to the US, or have negotiated illegal access to Danish Data. Not really anything new. NSA having illegal access to our data has been obvious for quite some time. And the government have always be too cooperative with the US. But maybe it was this guy all along?
B: He leaked to the press that such illegal activities are happening.
Bonus: The current defense minister have previously denied anyone illegally spying on us, but she is also incredibly incompetent. “We have no reason to think the US is spying on us. There is no way of investigating it. What are we supposed to do? Call them and Say ‘Hello this is Denmark, are you spying on us?'” – Trine Bramsen. See [https://nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2014-05-06-trine-bramsen-haenges-ud-paa-twitter-efter-tv-2-indslag](https://nyheder.tv2.dk/politik/2014-05-06-trine-bramsen-haenges-ud-paa-twitter-efter-tv-2-indslag)
It’s all for shows. Denmark is still giving Washington whatever they demand. They just needed blood for what happend last year to please the masses.