Frank Søholm Grevil (born 1960) is a Danish

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and former intelligence agent. He held the rank of

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, the Danish military intelligence agency. On 22 February 2004 he acted as a

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leaking classified information about the FE's assessment of the possibility of

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. The analysis of FE concluded that there was no certain information about operational weapons of mass destruction. This was not aligned with the statement of Danish prime minister

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to the Danish parliament that there was evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

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For leaking the documents Frank Grevil was sentenced to four months in prison, which he served in Horserød State Prison. In 2009, he received the

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for integrity in intelligence which had earlier been given to

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and

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. In December 2010 Grevil signed a declaration of support for

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. Among others on the list were

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and

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