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This autumn, the 59-year-old spymaster is due to stand trial on charges that he disclosed state secrets to journalists and close relatives including his 84-year old mother, in a series of conversations that appear to have been recorded by the tiny listening devices that were hidden in his home.

The prosecution of such a senior intelligence official may seem extraordinary, but shortly after the proceedings get under way, a separate trial will open in which Findsen’s former boss at Denmark’s defence ministry will face similar charges.

The secret deal – the “crown jewels” of Danish intelligence – was hidden from the public until details began to emerge in 2014, when documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed how European countries such as Denmark help facilitate the US’s globe-spanning electronic surveillance.

In June 2014, the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information published a piece based on Snowden’s leaks revealing a secret agreement between the intelligence service, known as DDIS, and the US National Security Agency to tap fibre-optic cables transporting internet traffic through Denmark.

The independent watchdog, led by a senior judge, revealed in a brief statement that it had obtained a large amount of material from a whistleblower and listed a series of incendiary allegations about how the DDIS spy service was operating.

In September 2020, Frederiksen publicly criticised the decision to publish the watchdog’s findings and, crucially, while defending the DDIS employees he appeared to provide the first on-the-record confirmation of the existence of the cable-tapping deal with the US glimpsed in the Snowden leaks.

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