Public broadcaster #DR said Danish government & #security sources which it didn’t name, as well as unidentified sources in #Greenland & the #US, believe that at least 3 US nationals w/ connections to #Trump have been carrying out #covert #influence operations in the territory.
1 of those people allegedly compiled a list of US-friendly Greenlanders, collected names of people opposed to Trump & got locals to point out cases that could be used to cast #Denmark in a bad light in US media.
2 others have tried to nurture contacts w/ politicians, businesspeople & locals, acc/to the report.
An #influence operation is an organized effort to shape how people in a society think in order to achieve certain political, military or other objectives.
#Trump has repeatedly said he seeks #US jurisdiction over #Greenland, a vast, semi-autonomous territory of #Denmark. He has not ruled out #military force to take #control of the #mineral-rich, strategically located Arctic island.
