Idealisten Page #7

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Do you want some coffee?

Well thank you.

Poul...Poul, do you have a moment?

People at National Archives met

all night with the State Department.

The US ambassador has asked the

Foreign Ministry to ban you.

You may read the letter and quote it broadly,

but not in its entirety.

So I need to turn a blind eye?

I'm just saying that you have to see it,

understand it and remember it.

But the more inaccurately you reproduce it,

the better you fare legally.

They are considering bringing in the

Archive Act, Section 25 to the game.

It's an offense to convey letters

that could harm national security.

You can get a maximum of six months

but later you will pay the price.

And what is the price?

The same you pay for espionage.

You'll never get rid of it.

You will be branded a criminal.

Over 100 Thule workers died.

I can therefore risk prison if I say

that the state lied for over 40 years!

Poul, you may stand in front of the National Archives

just like any another activists.

Just think, this is what you should do.

So, I should do nothing?

What will you do?

We want to join NATO, but we don't like nuclear weapons.

He lied.

It was another time.

He still lies.

He made a secret nuclear deal

with the United States...

at the same time that he went for elections

and said 'NO' to nuclear weapons.

If we don't respect the commitment

to a constitutional guarantee...

to mis-inform foreign policy boards

and of course the masses...

Aren't we second to a banana republic?

I want to keep you.

You are one of the most talented journalists I have.

Thanks, but it's just not good for me.

It's okay to choose a good life.

How do you do that in your book?

Select a good life?

Here it is...

You must read and report in abstract,

but do not convey in entirety.

Finally, television news reading H.C.Hansen's

secret letter from 1957...

where in he gave the United States permission to

station nuclear weapons on Danish territory.

There are two copies of this letter:

One is located in the archives in USA.

The second is what we have here.

I shall now read the letter in full.

From Hans Christian Hansen to the

US Ambassador Val Peterson.

During your visit here,

some days ago...

you made some remarks about the possible storing

of supplies of ammunition of a special kind...

on defense areas in Greenland.

I gather that your Government did not see

any problem in its matter which in its...

NATO Meeting, PARIS, 1957

We are here to re-dedicate ourselves to the cast of the

spelling shadows that are being cast upon over Europe.

And it rumors make clear that the purpose

to use that power to dominate the world.

Soviet invasion of Hungary, 1956

We who have endured a past occupation

with harsh conditions...

are amazed and fixiated

by the events in Hungary.

25-50,000 people die in Hungary.

These gastly events have shown,

beyond any shadow of doubt

that the men in the Kremlin are

exactly the same as they were before.

We say to the leading

people in the Kremlin...

that it is in their power

to stop the bloodshed.

Do it and do it now!

The Danish people stand solidly behind this appeal.

Town hall Square, Copenhagen, 1956

Few minutes silence for Hungary.

The recent world political events...

have meant a further strengthening

of our cooperation in NATO...

and by this necessity of cooperation,

made our unity firmer.

Press news on the radio.

The Cold War guns are now targeting Denmark...

since the Soviet ambassador has

handed a letter to H.C.Hansen.

The main points of the letter are as follows:

I must tell you frankly...

that the position of Denmark in the light of

NATO's military preparations...

inevitably attracts the

Soviet state's attention.

The situation will be tapered...

for those who plans for US units with

nuclear weapons materialization.

SOVIET NUCLEAR TESTING

It is in this context to recall...

that a Hydrogen bomb will cause

destruction of a territory...

with a radius of hundreds of kilometers...

and the events would hardly confine

itself to one such bomb.

The United States government

is entitled to store supplies,

provide for the protection of the area, etc.

And all materials, supplies etc,

shall be permitted entry in Greenland...

free of inspection.

You may not submit any concrete

plan as to such possible storing...

nor be asked questions as to the attitude

of the Danish government to this item.

I do not think that Jogen Moks

wise to any commenton my side.

Signed H.C.Hansen

November 16, 1957.

Yes...

Thanks.

State Ministry, 1995

We get compensation.

Compensation?

Yes, that what the Prime Minister said.

But that's not a substitute.

They admit they do not know sh*t.

The state cannot admit it.

The Prime Minister said, it is complex.

The letter could actually have

started a 3rd World War.

That's not what this is about!

Otherwise there will be no compensation.

What kind of compensation will do?

We get SEK 50,000 each.

SEK 50,000? You cannot be serious.

You are been ridiculed beyond all limits.

SEK 50,000 crowns?

None of this leads to something.

Is this the world you want to live in?

We fought.

What are you fighting for? What?

SEK 50,000!?

Was that what you had hoped to get out of this?

Now you are representing a turncoat!

Who allow themselves to behoove the Prime Minister.

And then you come out here and throw

it all on the floor, you idiot!

The truth is out.

Are you listening to what I'm saying?

The truth is out.

Yes.

You may direct questions to

Marius Schmidt and the Prime Minister.

Subsequently Poul Brink was reported to the police by the

National Archives for violation of the Archives Act 25.

After years of study the prosecution case was closed.

In 1997,Poul Brink was awarded the Cavling Prize

for his book "Thule case of falsehood Universe"

The real drama was that both

H.C.Hansen and Jens Otto Krag were lying.

I never thought I would say this

about the Danish Prime Minister.

It was beyond their intended capability.

They said thry did not have nuclear weapons on

Danish soil, but the US was given permission.

I think I would have liked H.C.Hansen.

We have the same background.

And I know the conditions were

difficult during the Cold War.

But I also think that politicians

mainly did it for convenience.

As a Danish top official said recently:

When you have once told a lie,

one needs to hold onto it.

Poul Brink succumbed to a heart attack during a run in 2002.

He was 49 years old.

Denmark's official policy is to deploy Nuclear Weapons

on Danish soil even in peace time.

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