Is a secret US spy ring trying to take over Greenland?

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It's a story that reads like it's jumped out of a thriller novel. Denmark has today summoned America's top diplomat in the country, after reports emerged that figures connected to the Trump administration had infiltrated Greenland to conduct “covert influence operations”.

Denmark's national broadcaster has today come out with a jaw-dropping story alleging that three US citizens are suspected of recruiting Greenlanders for a US-sponsored “separatist” movement. Are they rogue operatives - or are they working on behalf of the US State? Jon and Lewis speak to the journalist who broke the story,

Later, Labour are on the attack over Nigel Farage's mass deportation plan. The minister in charge of UK-EU relations, Nick Thomas-Symonds, has today been slamming Reform and the Tories for their aversion to closer ties with Europe - as well as branding Farage's migration proposals unrealistic and unworkable. He came in to the News Agents studio.

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0:00.0	The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity.
0:08.1	This is a global player original podcast.
0:11.6	We need Greenland, very importantly, for international security. We have to have Greenland.
0:19.4	It's not a question of, do you think we can do without it? We can't.
0:22.6	If you look at Greenland right now, if you look at the waterways, you have Chinese and Russian ships all over the place.
0:28.6	And we're not going to be able to do that. We're not relying on Denmark or anybody else to take care of that situation.
0:35.6	We know Donald Trump wants to plant a US flag on Greenland
0:41.5	to make it sort of the 51st state. What we didn't think would happen would be that covert
0:48.8	operatives apparently linked to the White House would be in Greenland trying to run a clandestine operation
0:57.6	to so discontent among the native population with their Danish rulers.
1:03.6	This story has rocked Danish politics today, with Denmark summoning a senior United States diplomat in Copenhagen to demand an explanation after it being reported that these individuals are trying to recruit Greenlanders for a US-sponsored separatist movement.
1:22.6	This is something that we've come to expect from Russia, but is this really the new way that
1:28.9	the United States is going to behave in the second era of Donald Trump?
1:34.8	Welcome to the newsagents.
1:40.8	The Newsagents.
1:42.0	It's John.
1:43.0	It's Lewis.
1:44.0	And we have grown used to the idea that the Foreign Secretary at times will call in the leaders of nations where we have fraught relations, the ambassador of Iran, the ambassador of Russia. And so it goes on, where we know they're up to no good in our country and they need to be put in their box.
2:02.6	What you don't expect is for the Danish foreign ministry to have to call in the most
2:08.6	senior American diplomat in that country. There is no ambassador at the moment. So it's the number
2:13.5	two, the Chaget de Fair, to explain what the hell is going on and who these three
2:19.5	individuals are, US citizens, with close ties to President Trump and the White House, who are
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