The Danish intelligence service is alleged to have allowed the US to tap into the phone calls of the German chancellor Angela MerkelDenmark helped a US intelligence agency to eavesdrop on the phone calls and text messages of Angela Merkel and other leading politicians from Germany, France, Sweden and Norway during Barack Obama’s presidency, it has been claimed. The operation is alleged to have targeted the German chancellor, her foreign minister and the leader of the opposition in 2012 and 2014, as well as a number of unnamed senior politicians and officials from other US allies in northern Europe. SponsoredThe Danish military intelligence service allowed the US National Security Agency (NSA) to tap into neighbouring governments’ communications through a listening post near Copenhagen airport, and a secret “back door” to underwater cables, according to DR, Denmark’s public broadcaster. Its investigation is the latest aftershock of the West’s

Source: The Times May 31, 2021 11:03 UTC