Danish Defence Intelligence Service The Danish Defence Intelligence Service ( " DDIS " ) ( Danish : " Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste " , short " FE " ( often but incorrectly : " FET " ) ) , is a Danish intelligence agency , responsible for Denmark ’ s foreign intelligence , as well as being the Danish military intelligence service . DDIS is a department under the Ministry of Defence and works under the responsibility of the Defence Minister of Denmark . It is housed at Kastellet in Copenhagen . The DDIS gathers , analyses , and disseminates information concerning conditions of importance to Denmark ’ s security , and to the security of Danish military units deployed on international missions . Intelligence activities include collection of information of political , financial , scientific and military interest . DDIS works closely with the Danish Security Intelligence Service , which is the intelligence arm of the Danish police , and the signals intelligence unit of the Danish signal regiment . History . The current name and basic organization dates from October 1 , 1967 , when Forsvarsstabens Efterretningsafdeling , the Intelligence Section or the Intelligence Department of the General Staff , was detached from Forsvarsstaben by decree of the Ministry of Defence , as a separate authority of its own , located directly under the Ministry of Defence . The origin can be traced back to Generalstabens Efterretningssektion ( created 1911 ) and Marinestabens Efterretningssektion ( created 1920s ) . During the reconstruction of the Danish military following Denmark ’ s joining of NATO , these two intelligence services were merged October 1 , 1950 as " Forsvarsstabens Efterretningsafdeling " as a department under the newly erected combined military staff , the " Forsvarsstab " . The origins of the Danish military intelligence is uncertain . The year 1911 appears in one of the few histories of the Danish military intelligence : William Christmas - Møller ' s Obersten og Kommandøren : Efterretningstjeneste , sikkerhedspolitik og socialdemokrati 1945 - 55 . Gyldendal , 1995 p . 25 . and p . 29 . However in " Underbilag A . til bilag 247 " in : Dokumentfortegnelse og særlige Bilag . Kommissionen til Undersøgelse og Overvejelse af Hæren og Flaadens fremtidige Ordning / the report from the Danish Defence Commission of 1922 . Copenhagen , . J . H . Schultz , 1922 . - 306 pp . ; p . 299 suggests the year of the establishing the military intelligence to be 1903 . During the cold war the military intelligence as well as the intelligence section of the police spied against and recorded the activities of the Danish left wing , communists and pacifists , among the later organisations and personalieties in the Danish chapter of the War Resisters ' International / Aldrig mere Krig , the Danish Campaign against Nuclear Weapons / Kampagnen mod Atomvåben and the Conscientious Objecters ' Union / Militærnægterforeningen . This is documented in : Forsvarets Auditørkorps / The Danish Judge Advocate General ' s Corps : Rapport i anledning af undersøgelsen ved auditør af visse forhold vedrørende Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste og Militærnægterforeningen mv . i perioden 1970 - 1978 , 1999 . Supervision and oversight . Four organizations , independent of each other , does various auditing of FE for unauthorised conduct . The service is directly responsible to the Defence Minister , which on behalf of the Government of Denmark supervises the overall actives and conduct of the service . The DDIS is , as Danish Security Intelligence Service is , subject to regularly control by the Wamberg committee ( Wamberg - udvalget ) , established in 1964 , which is controlled by the Ministry of Justice . It is also subject to Folketinget s control committee , which was established by law no . 378 of July 6 , 1988 . And finally , as all Danish government agencies , FE is subject to control by Rigsrevisionen ( Government audit committee ) , to ensure that the money granted to the institution is really spent as Folketinget has decided .