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Denmark jails spy chief for leaking secrets

Denmark has jailed its own Defence Intelligence Service chief, Lars Findsen, for leaking "highly classified information", it emerged at a hearing in Copenhagen City Court on Monday. Details of the charges were kept secret, Danish newspapers said, but according to sources cited by DR News the 57-year old intelligence director was punished for passing secrets to Danish media. "This is completely insane," Findsen said at Monday's hearing.

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