- Danish Defense Intelligence Service
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 theDefence Minister of Denmark . It is housed at Kastellet inCopenhagen .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
History
The current name and basic origination is from
October 1 ,1967 , whenForsvarsstabens Efterretningsafdeling was detached fromForsvarsstaben , 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) andMarinestabens Efterretningssektion (created 1920s). During the reconstruction of the Danish military following Denmark’s joining ofNATO , these two intelligence services was mergedOctober 1 ,1950 as "Forsvarsstabens Efterretningsafdeling" as a department under the newly erected combined military staff, the "Forsvarsstab".upervision 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, asDanish Security Intelligence Service is, subject to regularly control by theWamberg committee (Wamberg-udvalget), established in 1964, which is controlled by the Ministry of Justice. It is also subject toFolketinget s control committee, which was established by law no. 378 ofJuly 6 ,1988 . And finally, as all Danish government agencies, FE is subject to control byRigsrevisionen (Government audit committee), to insure that the money granted to the institution is really spent as Folketinget has decided.ee also
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Politiets Efterretningstjeneste "(PET)" Its civilian counterpartExternal links
* [http://forsvaret.dk/FE/ DDIS' homepage]
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