The Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET) has issued a warning regarding influence campaigns targeting Greenland, with the aim of creating division between Greenland and Denmark. The assessment comes in response to inquiries from the Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR).

PET suggests that these campaigns could exploit existing or fabricated disagreements, potentially focusing on well-known individual cases or promoting specific viewpoints within Greenland related to the Kingdom, the USA, or other countries with vested interests in the territory.

The warning follows reports from DR, based on eight anonymous sources, alleging that at least three Americans with connections to former US President Donald Trump are conducting influence operations in Greenland. These sources include individuals from central government and authority positions, as well as sources in both Greenland and the USA.

One of the Americans is said to have been gathering names of Greenlandic citizens who support Trump’s plan to acquire Greenland. Allegedly, this individual also solicited information from Greenlanders regarding cases that could portray Denmark negatively in American media. Examples cited include instances of forced removal of Greenlandic children in Denmark and the IUD case, in which Greenlandic girls and women had IUDs inserted without consent in the 1960s and 1970s.

DR has been unable to confirm whether the Americans acted independently or under orders. The White House has not responded to DR’s request for comment on whether the US government directed US citizens to conduct influence operations in Greenland.

A representative from the American Embassy in Copenhagen stated that the US government does not control the actions of private citizens and that individual Americans may have interests in Greenland.

The Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, has condemned any attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of the Danish Realm as unacceptable. In response, the Minister for Foreign Affairs summoned the American chargé d’affaires in Denmark for a meeting. The chargé d’affaires is a high-ranking diplomat serving in place of an ambassador. Donald Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, has not yet been approved and has not assumed office.