Nations always do spy on each other a little - that said. Spying on the French is probably not the worst idea but spying on the Danes is a waste of resources. Denmark is not like France or the US. It's a fairly high trust society with an open economy and no real enemies. The Danes are also notoriously quite blunt. If you asked their government something in private they would probably give you a straight answer.
Lee Kwan Yew the first PM of Singapore gave an interview once where he castigated American intelligence for its corrupting influence on countries institutions after a senior intelligence officer reported to his superiors that the CIA tried to recruit him even though Singapore was a close ally of both the US and Britain and Australia. He went on to say that the US had no discretion in how it went about foreign relations with other nations compared to the worlds other major powers.
For example my guess is the foreign office here in Britain probably had someone who kept an ear to the ground in Singapore or maybe someone in the RAF brass - probably had a few friends there who would talk shop and probably swap information on what was going on in London or at the Commonwealth office or at the MOD over a coffee or a few pints of Tiger. No need for corrupting influences or money.
Nations always do spy on each other a little - that said. Spying on the French is probably not the worst idea but spying on the Danes is a waste of resources. Denmark is not like France or the US. It's a fairly high trust society with an open economy and no real enemies. The Danes are also notoriously quite blunt. If you asked their government something in private they would probably give you a straight answer.
Lee Kwan Yew the first PM of Singapore gave an interview once where he castigated American intelligence for its corrupting influence on countries institutions after a senior intelligence officer reported to his superiors that the CIA tried to recruit him even though Singapore was a close ally of both the US and Britain and Australia. He went on to say that the US had no discretion in how it went about foreign relations with other nations compared to the worlds other major powers.
For example my guess is the foreign office here in Britain probably had someone who kept an ear to the ground in Singapore or maybe someone in the RAF brass - probably had a few friends there who would talk shop and probably swap information on what was going on in London or at the Commonwealth office or at the MOD over a coffee or a few pints of Tiger. No need for corrupting influences or money.