Denmark to summon US envoy over report of Greenland spying directive

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Source: Guardian

CIA, NSA and Defense Intelligence Agency all included in ‘collection emphasis message’, report says

Robert Tait and Miranda Bryant
Wed 7 May 2025 12.05 EDT

Denmark has said that it will summon the US ambassador to Copenhagen to respond to reports that US intelligence agencies have been ordered to increase espionage in Greenland.

The Danish foreign minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, said on Wednesday that he was concerned about the report in the Wall Street Journal, telling the Ritzau news agency: “It worries me a lot, because we don’t spy between friends.”

Speaking on his way to a meeting in Warsaw, he added: “I can’t know if it’s true because it’s in a newspaper. But it doesn’t seem to be strongly rejected by those who speak out. That worries me.”

High-ranking officials working under Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, issued the instruction to agency heads in a “collection emphasis message”, the Journal reported.



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1. Malcolm Nance talked about this today

it's like the NSA wire tapping a golden retriever. He said the NSA would have to hire people who speak Dutch.

Not sure if Malcolm was joking or not but he explained how we could take over Greenland by military force.

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3. The official language of Greenland is Greenlandic. The number of speakers of Greenlandic is estimated at 50,000 (85-90%

I was curious what the official language of Greenland was............




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Greenland

The official language of Greenland is Greenlandic. The number of speakers of Greenlandic is estimated at 50,000 (85–90% of the total population), divided in three main dialects, Kalaallisut (West-Greenlandic, 44,000 speakers and the dialect that is used as official language), Tunumiit (East-Greenlandic, 3,000 speakers) and Inuktun (North-Greenlandic, 800 speakers). The remainder of the population mainly speaks Danish; Greenlandic Sign Language is the language of the deaf community.[1]

Greenland has been a very isolated and linguistically homogeneous island historically, but has nevertheless been home to several languages. Greenlandic Norse is believed to have been in language contact with Greenlandic, the language of the indigenous Kalaallit, and to have left loanwords in that language.[2] It has been suggested that the female given name Kuuna derives from kona, the Old Norse word for "woman" and "wife".[3]

The available evidence does not establish the presence of language attrition; the language most likely disappeared with the ethnic group that spoke it.[4]

Greenlandic is not only the national language, but is now "the official language in Greenland" by virtue of Act no. 473, adopted by parliament 12 June 2009, the Act on Greenland Self-Government.[5]

Studying Danish and English is mandatory for students in compulsory schools and also part of many secondary-level study programmes, so knowledge of the two languages is widespread. Other foreign languages frequently studied include German and French. ..............

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2. Potential of U.S. grifting into a war with NATO

Former ambassador to Denmark: NATO would be compelled to respond to Greenland invasion

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5082641-us-ambassador-greenland-security

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4. "we don't spy between friends."

That is sooooo 2024