Published 29.06.09 10:55
Radicals in Denmark co-operated with a notorious West German terror organisation in the 1980s Confidential documents released by intelligence agency PET indicate that left-wing radicals directly co-operated with former West German communist terrorist group Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) in the...
Confidential documents released by intelligence agency PET indicate that left-wing radicals directly co-operated with former West German communist terrorist group Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) in the 1980s.
The information was released in connection with a commission report on the intelligence agency’s activities since the 1940s.
One of post-war Germany’s most infamous terror groups RAF was responsible for the deaths of over 30 people, with many more injured in various shootings and bomb attacks from 1971-1993.
In 1968 PET received information, purportedly from West German intelligence, that Danish anarchists commonly known as BZ were sending money to RAF via contacts that moved in and out of Denmark.
Financial support was also traced to a house at Ryesgade 58, Copenhagen, a former BZ squat, through an issue of underground publication ‘Radical’, founded by German left-wing militant group the Revolutionary Cells.
Readers of the publication were urged to send money to an organisation called the ‘International Green’, whose address was at Ryesgade 58. The advertisement claimed the money would be sent on to West Germany to support the RAF.
But once PET began investigating BZ’s West German connections, the agency found that the co-operation went beyond just financial support to RAF. A 1986 letter addressed to the International Green contained information regarding an assassination attempt that took place in western Germany on 26 August 1986.
At that point PET indicated there was ‘direct co-operation’ between BZ and RAF. Subsequent information also pointed to BZ having worked with other militant radical groups, including a Dutch group that had been behind bomb attacks in The Netherlands in 1986. That same year PET found that BZ had made their own bombs for ‘potential targets’ in Denmark.
Ryesgade 58 was eventually raided in September 1986, which resulted in violent street fighting between police and BZ.
The Copenhagen Post
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