Kjeld Olesen

Kjeld Olesen (8 July 1932 – 25 July 2024) was a Danish Social Democratic politician who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs of Denmark from 1979 to 1982.

Career In 1955, Olesen was part of the CIA team that secretly listened in on the leftist politicians Ragnhild Andersen and Alfred Jensen. He also worked in a private intelligence organisation called Arbejdernes Informations Central (Danish: Information Centre of the Labour Movement), financed by the labour movement. Its employers were members of the Social Democratic Party. His father, Anker, was among the resistance members against Nazi Germany during World War II.