Vagn Bennike

During the occupation of Denmark during World War II he worked in the Danish resistance movement in Jutland, where he was attached to the army's illegal tasks unit.

He was subsequently appointed in 1953 to succeed William E.Riley as the UN overseer in charge of monitoring the truce lines between Israel and her Arab neighbours, becoming Chief of Staff of UNTSO, the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization,[1] a post in which he served for the period between June 1953 and August 1954.

One of his first decisions, in September 1953, was to overrule his predecessor Riley's go-ahead to Israel for work on the proposed hydro-electric project from B'not Yaakov Bridge to Lake Kinneret, which ran through part of the demilitarized zone.

After the Qibya massacre, he was called to testify before the United Nations Security Council in October 1953[2] He also wrote a foreword to his colleague Commander E.H. Hutchison's book Violent Truce: The Arab-Israeli conflict 1951-1955.

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