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Group.png Norwegian Intelligence Service  
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Formation1915
HeadquartersOslo
Exposed byMike Frost
The most powerful deep state entity in Norway

The Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) (Norwegian: Etterretningstjenesten. E-tjenesten) is a Norwegian military intelligence agency.

Secret archive over Norwegian leaders

In 2016, it was exposed that the Service stores large amounts of personal information about more than 400 Norwegians who the Intelligence Service wanted to recruit or keep as confidential informants. The archive also contains sensitive information about the persons' immediate family members. The entries in the archive, which have existed "for a number of years", are psychological profiles of leaders in Norwegian society who travel a lot abroad - among other business people, bureaucrats and academics. The archive has for years been kept away from the the parliament's control body for the Secret Service, the EOS Committee.[1]

Deep state control

In an interview, Egil Eikanger stated that he himslef had been bugged when he was leader of the Service. The bugging happened through his phone, which also allowed for bugging his home (room surveillance), including highly confidential conversations. Eikanger hinted strongly that Trond Johansen, formally his subordinate, was the person responsible for the surveillance, possibly on a mission from the CIA or NSA. [2]

Surveillance of the Willoch government

In the spring of 1982, Erling Norvik, then state secretary in the Kåre Willoch government, received a number of inquiries from several officers, two of whom in particular warned that wiretapping of the government occurred as part of illegal wiretapping by parts of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, that there was confusion between party politics and professional intelligence and that there was the need to look more closely at the control of foreign services' activities in Norway. Norvik alerted Willoch, who left the case to defense minister Anders Sjaastad. Sjaastad then asked people in the agency, who answered that the accusation was nonsense, and the case did not go further.[3]


 

A Norwegian Intelligence Service victim on Wikispooks

TitleDescription
Per BortenNorwegian prime minister spied upon by the US and "his own" spooks.

 

Employees on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEnd
Trond JohansenSpook
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