Former Danish Intelligence Analyst Receives Six Months in Prison for Leak of Prewar Iraq Intelligence

Former Danish military intelligence analyst Frank Grevil was sentenced yesterday to six months in prison for giving to a leading Danish newspaper a report that said there was no evidence prewar Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (see GSN, Nov. 30).

Danish judge Elisabeth Larsen said Grevil’s actions might have damaged the international reputation of the Danish military intelligence service, according to Agence France-Presse. Grevil, though, said his sentence was “completely disproportionate” to his actions.

“It’s as if the legal system has forgotten that people sometime follow their conscience, and it was my conscience that led me to provide these documents,” he said (Agence France-Presse/Tehran Times, Dec. 1).

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