American intelligence services have more closely focused on Greenland in recent weeks, encouraged by President Trump’s interest to acquire the journey of the island and vice president JD Vance to an American military basis, according to several American officials.
A growing number of intelligence reports about Greenland is included in information that is distributed to the executive and congress, the officials said.
The increased analytical focus due to a number of intelligence services comes when Mr. Trump has repeatedly expressed his wish to acquire the island and said that it is vital for national security. Greenland is strategically located in the polar circle and has huge stores of rare earth minerals.
Danish officials have responded negatively Unpleasant News reports From a set -up intelligence collection on Greenland, a self -managing area of the country. The American ambassador in Denmark has been called up for a meeting, the Danish government threatens to close a consulate and its Foreign Minister has sentenced an attempt by the United States to spy on Denmark, a NATO fellow fellow.
Some of the recent intelligence reports focused on Russian or Chinese interest in the island, said the current and former officials. They added that the White House remained worried about the safety of the North Pole area and the attack by China and Russia about American interests.
Much of the recent intelligence work seemed to be based on open-source intelligence, unclassified material, some officials said.
Officials interviewed for this article spoke about the state of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of intelligence priorities and the frequent threats of the Trump administration of leak research.
There has been no big shift in collecting intelligence. Civil servants expect that the agencies will concentrate more on Greenland in the coming months, but do not anticipate a large redistribution of intelligence officers or reconnaissance satellites to the island.
The population of Greenland is tiny, around 57,000, and the reduction of collecting assets of top administration epiorities such as China or the southern American border would be waste, according to officials.
Yet they said they expected more work to be done on Greenland and the population.
The office of the director of the National Intelligence sent a “Collection Nutchiver -Boodschap” to various intelligence services last week and reminded directors of Mr Trump’s interest in Greenland. The memo, that was previously reported by the Wall Street Journal, Asked for information about the independence movement of Greenland and public attitudes about the extraction of American resources.
Former officials said that the collection of those priorities probably further research into open-source information instead of placing officers on the island to infiltrate political organizations.
There is considerable support for independence in Greenland. Although Denmark has control over the foreign policy and the defense of Greenland, the island has considerable autonomy. But it is very dependent on Denmark that offers subsidies that take into account it 20 percent of gross domestic product from Greenland.
After the magazine published his article, officials said that a leak investigation was underway. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of National Intelligence, said in a statement that “Deep State Actors” had released the information and undermined American safety.
Since the return to presidency, Mr. Trump has been consistent about his wish to acquire Greenland. “We need Greenland for national security and even international security, and we work together with everyone involved to get it,” he said in his speech to the Congress in March. “We are going to get it somehow.”
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