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Danish whistleblower Grevil gets Sam Adams Award

category international | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Sunday February 08, 2009 18:00author by Coilín ÓhAiseadha Report this post to the editors

McGovern and Gun honour their courageous colleague

At a ceremony held in Copenhagen on 26 January, 2009, former Danish military intelligence officer Frank Grevil was given the Sam Adams award for integrity in intelligence, in recognition of the role he played in exposing the falsehoods that led to Denmark's invasion of Iraq in 2003.
grevil_whistleblower_on_foghs_nose.jpg

In early 2004, Major Frank Grevil provided journalists with classified documents of the Danish Defence Intelligence Agency, which had expressed doubts about the existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, before the invasion of Iraq. The doubts expressed in these intelligence documents exposed the spurious certainty of remarks made by prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen in March 2003: “Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. This is not something we just believe. We know.”

Grevil was subsequently dismissed from the intelligence service and sentenced to four months' imprisonment, which he served in Horseroed Prison in June-September 2008.

The Sam Adams Associates' Corner-Brightener Candlestick was awarded at a ceremony attended by former CIA intelligence analyst Ray McGovern and two international whistleblower colleagues: former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, and former translator at the British Government Communications Headquarters, Katharine Gun.

Please read McGovern's speech and the citation for the award, read by Gun at the ceremony:
Honoring an Iraq War Whistleblower
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/013009a.html

Please see picture from award ceremony here:
http://www.berlingske.dk/article/20090126/danmark/70126...0096/

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   And where were his Irish Counterparts?     Tim Hourigan    Sun Feb 08, 2009 19:13 
   no counterpart yet     Mary Kelly    Mon Feb 09, 2009 19:39 
   Congratulations to Mr Grevil.     iosaf    Tue Feb 10, 2009 03:13 


 
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