According to a report in Fréttablaðið, It has recently been revealed that the Danish military’s intelligence service has given the CIA access to the country’s fiber optic network, which the United States uses to spy on Denmark and other countries.
An informant in the Danish secret service revealed how the agency collaborated with the US NSA on domestic surveillance. The whistleblower’s report alleges that Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE) carried out possible illegal surveillance of the NSA, including knocking on submarine and fiber optic landing sites and building data centers to store all the information they found.
MP Andrés Ingi Jónsson has asked the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Minister of Transport about their reactions after it was revealed that the United States used this access to spy on Denmark, Sweden, France and the Netherlands. Andrés believes that there is a high probability that Iceland will be included, as the country’s internet traffic passes through Danish territory.
Negligence, not a bad intention
“Iceland has never been excluded from the secret service and these great secret services spy on everyone”, says Andrés. The United States’ interest in Iceland has also increased recently due to the activities of Russia and China in the Arctic. He adds that state secrets, business information and personal information about the public could be provided by the CIA through fiber optics.
The MP says that he does not believe that this will affect Iceland’s relations with Denmark and that the situation has arisen due to negligence rather than bad intentions. “It is very careless to let outsiders into such an important infrastructure. Reports suggest that the Danes did not expect the United States to spy on them; rather, it was expected that Denmark would assist the United States with its intelligence services. This was done behind them. “
Source: The Nordic Page