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 Sam Adams Award 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 Colleen Rowley.

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