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Version 3.515. November 2010, 17. November 2010
11/16/2010
Overvågning og beskyttelse af den amerikanske
ambassade
Af: Politiets Efterretningstjeneste
Politiets Efterretningstjeneste (PET) har i dag offentliggjort en
orientering vedrørende overvågning og beskyttelse af
den amerikanske ambassade i Danmark.
Orienteringen indeholder blandt andet en beskrivelse af den
amerikanske netbaserede database SIMAS, som har været omtalt
i medierne i den seneste tid. Derudover bliver rammerne for
sikkerhedsforanstaltningerne i forhold til den amerikanske
ambassade gennemgået.
Oplysningerne om SIMAS er offentligt tilgængelige, ligesom
efterretningstjenesten i hvert fald siden 2004 har haft kendskab
til, at der som led i den amerikanske ambassades egne
sikkerhedsforanstaltninger er gennemført observation fra en
lokalitet uden for ambassade-området, men med overblik over
ambassaden.
”PET har på baggrund af den seneste tids medieomtale
holdt et møde med den amerikanske ambassade i
København for at sikre, at der fortsat er enighed mellem
ambassaden og PET om rammerne for ambassadens
sikkerhedsforanstaltninger. Ambassaden har bekræftet denne
fælles forståelse og har samtidig tilkendegivet, at
ambassadens aktiviteter gennemføres inden for disse
rammer”, siger chefen for PET Jakob Scharf og
fortsætter:
”Det er naturligvis ambassadens ansvar at sikre lovligheden
af ambassadens egne sikkerhedsforanstaltninger, men PET vil fortsat
skride ind, hvis efterretningstjenesten bliver opmærksom
på ulovlige aktiviteter”.
11/16/2010
National Security Archive Update, November 16, 2010
Cold War Air Defense Relied on Widespread Dispersal of Nuclear
Weapons, Declassified Documents Show : Deployments Had
Dangerous Potential Because of Predelegation Arrangements
Washington, DC, November 16, 2010 - To counter a Soviet bomber
attack, U.S. war plans contemplated widespread use of thousands of
air defense weapons during the middle years of the Cold War
according to declassified documents posted today at the National
Security Archive's Nuclear Vault and cited by a recently published
book, Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear
Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War (Palgrave Macmillan) by
historian Christopher J. Bright. The U.S. government publicly
acknowledged the facts of the deployments in the 1950s, yet they
garnered surprisingly little public opposition, Bright concludes,
in disclosing for the first time that air defense weapons comprised
as much as one-fifth of the US nuclear arsenal in 1961. Still,
nearly 25 years after the United States retired the last of them in
1986, their exact number remains secret.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the most perilous crisis of the
Cold War, Bright shows that top Defense officials wanted to limit a
response to a bomber attack to conventional weapons, not realizing
how much plans and deployments rested solely on nuclear weapons.
Bright's work also raises the possibility that air defense weapons
may have been among the most dangerous nuclear arms because of
their widespread deployment and the predelegated use arrangements
that could have led to inadvertent nuclear use during a crisis.
Bright's book recounts many other formerly secret details about the
thousands of Army and nuclear air defense weapons built during the
Cold War, the plans and procedures for their use, and their
eventual withdrawal. Drawing upon declassified documents held by
the National Security Archive (including material in ninety boxes
of files donated in 2003 upon the death of nuclear researcher Chuck
Hansen) and other once-secret information originating at the White
House, Pentagon, Atomic Energy Commission and elsewhere,
Continental Defense in the Eisenhower Era discusses the development
and deployment of:
* 3155 Genie air-to-air rockets (with two kiloton nuclear warheads)
estimated to have armed scores of Air Force interceptor aircraft at
31 bases in 20 states starting in 1957
* 1900 Falcon guided air-to-air missiles (with half kiloton
warheads) which later also equipped some of these and other
airplanes
* 2500 Army Nike-Hercules surface-to-air missiles (carrying 2 or 22
kiloton warheads) that the Army positioned at 123 launch sites
around 26 cities and 10 Air Force bases in 25 states
* 409 Air Force BOMARC long range surface-to-air missiles (each
with six and one-half kiloton warheads) located at eight launch
sites in seven eastern and northeastern states (in addition to two
locations in Canada).
Bright discusses his book in a presentation on "Continental Defense
in the Eisenhower Era: Nuclear Antiaircraft Arms and the Cold War,"
sponsored by the Cold War International History Project at the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, November 17 2010,
4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m., One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania
Ave., N.W. For more information about tomorrow's presentation,
check the Wilson Center's Web site:
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.event&event_id=638674
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