Defence Minister Nick Hækkerup and his staff are under fire from the former chief of defence, who says that a report to Parliament on the deployment of a radar installation to Afghanistan is incomplete.

According to the memorandum, which TV2 has obtained, former defence chief Knud Bartels highlights, among other discrepancies, that he was not involved in the report.

“… that the report does not seem to be complete since I can see that several aspects in the description of the decision-making process have been left out,” Bartels writes.

Gen. Knud Bartels is currently with NATO.

The radar installation has been the target of controversy this spring as it was despatched despite the fact that Bartels advised the defence ministry on three occasions that there were no military reasons to send it.

Bartels says that he was not involved in the report (Ed: to Parliament).

On April 23, Defence Minister Hækkerup answered Troels Lund Poulsen of the Liberal Party that “The Defence Ministry’s Permanent Under-Secretary has been in contact with former Defence Chief Knud Bartels in connection with the case”.

Bartels, however, disputes that explanation in his memo. “I have not been involved in the Defence Ministry report’.

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