Recent spy scandals reveal how western allies are increasingly unreliable friends

By Robert Dover, Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull

Denmark’s foreign affairs minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen sounded surprised and emotional as he addressed a press conference on May 7. He announced he would call in the acting head of the US embassy in Copenhagen, Jennifer Hall Godfrey, over highly charged allegations that Washington has instructed its intelligence agencies to step up espionage on Greenland and Copenhagen.

According to the Wall Street Journal,…

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