Communication security

COLD WAR RETURNS AS NATO MEMBER DENMARK BUILDS SPY STATION TO CAPTURE RUSSIA INTELLIGENCE

Denmark has announced plans to build a huge spy station intended to capture Russian communications amid heightened tensions between the Western military alliance NATO and rival Moscow.

Lars Findsen, chief of Denmark's Defense Intelligence Service (FE), said Saturday the country was planning to build a nearly 280-foot-tall listening tower near Ostermarie, on the Danish island of Bornholm. The tower, almost the size of the Statue of Liberty, would reportedly be capable of intercepting radio signals across the Baltic Sea and in parts of Russia, whose military buildup has raised major concerns in the NATO-dominated region.

"I would say that the initiative will strengthen FE's ability to report Russia's intentions towards Denmark, including Russia's military ambitions in the Danish neighborhood," Findsen told the official Danish Broadcasting Corporation.