The Police Intelligence Service (PET) Commission, which was set up 10 years ago to look into PET activities during the Cold War, has finally produced its report and found that the service has ‘never appeared to be a state in a state that acted according to its own norms”.
“We have done our job and I support every word we have written,” says PET Commission Chairman Leif Aamand, who handed over 4,600 pages in 16 volumes to Justice Minister Brian Mikkelsen today.
The Commission was set up in 1998 to determine whether the domestic intelligence agency had exceeded its mandate during the Cold War in illegally registering individuals solely as a result of their political affiliations.
The Commission, which says that PET registered between 250,000 and 300,000 Danes in the mid-1960s, has studied some 13,000 cases.
Edited by Julian Isherwood
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