Danish Defense Intelligence Service

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The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) (Danish: Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste, short FE (often but incorrectly: FET)), is a Danish intelligence agency, responsible for Denmark’s foreign intelligence, as well as being the Danish military intelligence service. DDIS is a department under Ministry of Defence and work under the responsibility of the Defence Minister of Denmark. It is housed at Kastellet in Copenhagen.

The DDIS gathers, analyse, and disseminate information concerning conditions, which are of importance to Denmark’s security, and to the security of Danish military units deployed on international missions. Intelligence activities include collection of information of political, financial, scientific, and military interest.

DDIS works closely with the Danish Security Intelligence Service which is the intelligence arm of the Danish police and the signals intelligence unit of the Danish signal regiment

1 History
2 Supervision and oversight
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

The current name and basic origination is from October 1, 1967, when Forsvarsstabens Efterretningsafdeling was detached from Forsvarsstaben, by decree of the Ministry of Defence, as a separate authority of its own, located directly under the Ministry of Defence.

The origin can be traced back to Generalstabens Efterretningssektion (created 1911) and Marinestabens Efterretningssektion (created 1920s). During the reconstruction of the Danish military following Denmark’s joining of NATO, these two intelligence services was merged October 1, 1950 as Forsvarsstabens Efterretningsafdeling as a department under the newly erected combined military staff, the Forsvarsstab.

[edit] Supervision and oversight

Four organizations, independently of each other, does various control of FE for unauthorised conduct.

The service is directly responsible to the Defence Minister, which on behalf of the Government of Denmark supervises the overall actives and conduct of the service. The DDIS is, as Danish Security Intelligence Service is, subject to regularly control by the Wamberg committee (Wamberg-udvalget), established in 1964, which is controlled by the Ministry of Justice. It is also subject to Folketingets control committee, which was established by law no. 378 of July 6, 1988. And finally, as all Danish government agencies, FE is subject to control by Rigsrevisionen (Government audit committee), to insure that the money granted to the institution is really spent as Folketinget has decided.