US base in Greenland part of spy programme

The information gathered at Thule is used by the American intelligence services and drone programme

December 2, 2013
14:45

by Ray Weaver

Fully one third of the information gathered at Thule Tracking Station (TTS) – the US military base in Greenland – is used by the CIA and the NSA as part of their monitoring of telecommunications and potential terrorist activity.

The information could include photos, weather information from Iraq or the location of suspected terrorist camps in Afghanistan, according to declassified US documents reported on by Jyllands-Posten newspaper.

“These are the snapshots you use to plot a drone attack,” Torben Rune, the head of telecommunications at Netplan, a net communications company that has consulted with NASA , told Jyllands-Posten.

Some members of parliament said that they had no idea that the data collected at Thule was being passed on to intelligence agencies. Far-left party Enhedslisten and Amnesty International Denmark have called for an investigation.

"It suggests that Denmark is supporting America's secret drone programme,” Amnesty International Denmark's secretary general, Trine Christiansen, told Jyllands-Posten. “And that is something that the Danish government should investigate and distance itself from.”

Radikale spokesperson Zenia Stampe told Jyllands-Posten that she “did not mind that Thule was used for intelligence gathering to combat terrorism.”

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