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==Secret archive over Norwegian leaders== | ==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 [[Storting|the parliament]]'s control body for the Secret Service, the EOS Committee.<ref>https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/kilder-om-e-tjenesten---bak-denne-dora-har-de-skjult-hemmelig-arkiv-med-400-samfunnstopper/62757150</ref> | 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 [[Storting|the parliament]]'s control body for the Secret Service, the EOS Committee.<ref>https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/kilder-om-e-tjenesten---bak-denne-dora-har-de-skjult-hemmelig-arkiv-med-400-samfunnstopper/62757150</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Trond Johansen== | ||
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| + | [[Trond Johansen]], while formally never a leader of NIS, had a dominate position over the agency for five decades. | ||
==Deep state control== | ==Deep state control== | ||
In an interview, [[Egil Eikanger]] stated that he himself 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]]. <ref>[[Bård Wormdal]], ''Spionkrigen'', page 208-209</ref> | In an interview, [[Egil Eikanger]] stated that he himself 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]]. <ref>[[Bård Wormdal]], ''Spionkrigen'', page 208-209</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Surveillance of the Borten government== | ||
| + | [[Per Borten]] stated on TV in 1991 with reference to his time as prime minister: | ||
| + | {{QB|There is no doubt that the phone was tapped, but I have no idea about who would have done it.<ref name=arbeiderbladet/>}} | ||
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| + | According to Attorney General [[L. J. Dorenfeldt]], the case was investigated for 5 years without anything being able to be proved or disproved.<ref name=arbeiderbladet>Arbeiderbladet 5. June 1994, via [[Gro-gate]], page 359</ref> | ||
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| + | Borten told in 1999 how: | ||
| + | {{QB|The prime minister was visited by two US intelligence officers, who asked Borten to leave his office while they worked, allegedly to uncover secret microphones... I know today that these were intelligence people, and I am convinced that they had close contact with the [[Norwegian Intelligence Service|Norwegian intelligence service]]. ... The most important purpose, by all accounts, was to install the most advanced eavesdropping equipment in my office."<ref>Dagbladet, Dec 2, 1999; via [[Gro-gate]], page 359</ref>}} | ||
==Surveillance of the Willoch government== | ==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.<ref>''[[Klassekampen]]'' November 19, 1992; via [[Gro-gate]], page 521</ref> | 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.<ref>''[[Klassekampen]]'' November 19, 1992; via [[Gro-gate]], page 521</ref> | ||
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| + | ==US collaboration== | ||
| + | Norway's chief of defence from 1989 to 1994, [[Toralf Rein]], has said that Norway was the [[United States]]' most important intelligence partner during his period as leader. Several former Norwegian intelligence chiefs have said that Norway was one of America's most important partners in their periods.<ref name=wormdal>https://steigan.no/2024/08/spionasje-er-grunnfjellet-mellom-usa-og-norge/</ref> | ||
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| + | [[NTOC]], a cyber division of the [[NSA]], has ranked the NIS as one of its two closest foreign partners. The intelligence community and NSA collect and share cyber data on the [[Russian]] political leadership.<ref name=wormdal/> | ||
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| + | ==Funding by the United Staets== | ||
| + | The agency has long been majority funded by the United States. | ||
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| + | [[Fredrik Sejersted]], then a lawyer with the attorney general, wrote in 2005 that the US and [[NATO]] financed more than 90 percent of the NIS's budget in the early 1990s. Historian [[Rolf Tamnes]] wrote that aprroximately 70% of the intelligence workers were paid by the U.S. government in the late [[1960s]]. As recently as [[1992]], half of the employees worked in projects paid by the United States.ref name=sparta/> | ||
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| + | 50 percent of the agency's activities in [[1991]] was funded by the United States. Officer [[Tormod Heier]] wrote that American intelligence paid more than 90 percent of the budget to the NIS in the mid-1990s. A key source in the NIS has also said that the Americans for a period allocated so large sums to the intelligence service that the Norwegians were unable to use up all of it. What then happened was that money was returned to an account in the United States, money that could later be used for Norwegian intelligence. At the turn of the millennium, there was allegedly NOK 100 million in this account.<ref name=sparta>https://spartakus.no/2023/06/26/hvem-arbeider-etterretningstjenesten-for/</ref> | ||
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| + | In [[2005]], the government allocated NOK 691 million to the agency. In [[2020]], a budget of NOK 2.3 billion was proposed.<ref>https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/etterretningstjenesten-styrkes-igjen-_-budsjetter-mer-enn-tredoblet-de-siste-15-arene-1.15192192</ref> How much the additional US funding is, is not known.<ref>https://spartakus.no/2023/06/26/hvem-arbeider-etterretningstjenesten-for/</ref> | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
Revision as of 00:01, 31 October 2024
 Norwegian Intelligence Service  (Intelligence service, Norway/Military)   | |
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| Formation | 1915 |
| Headquarters | Oslo |
| Exposed by | Mike Frost |
| The most powerful deep state entity in Norway | |
The Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) (Norwegian: Etterretningstjenesten. E-tjenesten) is a Norwegian military intelligence agency.
Contents
- 1 Secret archive over Norwegian leaders
- 2 Trond Johansen
- 3 Deep state control
- 4 Surveillance of the Borten government
- 5 Surveillance of the Willoch government
- 6 US collaboration
- 7 Funding by the United Staets
- 8 A Norwegian Intelligence Service victim on Wikispooks
- 9 Employees on Wikispooks
- 10 References
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]
Trond Johansen
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Trond Johansen
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Trond Johansen, while formally never a leader of NIS, had a dominate position over the agency for five decades.
Deep state control
In an interview, Egil Eikanger stated that he himself 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 Borten government
Per Borten stated on TV in 1991 with reference to his time as prime minister:
There is no doubt that the phone was tapped, but I have no idea about who would have done it.[3]
According to Attorney General L. J. Dorenfeldt, the case was investigated for 5 years without anything being able to be proved or disproved.[3]
Borten told in 1999 how:
The prime minister was visited by two US intelligence officers, who asked Borten to leave his office while they worked, allegedly to uncover secret microphones... I know today that these were intelligence people, and I am convinced that they had close contact with the Norwegian intelligence service. ... The most important purpose, by all accounts, was to install the most advanced eavesdropping equipment in my office."[4]
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.[5]
US collaboration
Norway's chief of defence from 1989 to 1994, Toralf Rein, has said that Norway was the United States' most important intelligence partner during his period as leader. Several former Norwegian intelligence chiefs have said that Norway was one of America's most important partners in their periods.[6]
NTOC, a cyber division of the NSA, has ranked the NIS as one of its two closest foreign partners. The intelligence community and NSA collect and share cyber data on the Russian political leadership.[6]
Funding by the United Staets
The agency has long been majority funded by the United States.
Fredrik Sejersted, then a lawyer with the attorney general, wrote in 2005 that the US and NATO financed more than 90 percent of the NIS's budget in the early 1990s. Historian Rolf Tamnes wrote that aprroximately 70% of the intelligence workers were paid by the U.S. government in the late 1960s. As recently as 1992, half of the employees worked in projects paid by the United States.ref name=sparta/>
50 percent of the agency's activities in 1991 was funded by the United States. Officer Tormod Heier wrote that American intelligence paid more than 90 percent of the budget to the NIS in the mid-1990s. A key source in the NIS has also said that the Americans for a period allocated so large sums to the intelligence service that the Norwegians were unable to use up all of it. What then happened was that money was returned to an account in the United States, money that could later be used for Norwegian intelligence. At the turn of the millennium, there was allegedly NOK 100 million in this account.[7]
In 2005, the government allocated NOK 691 million to the agency. In 2020, a budget of NOK 2.3 billion was proposed.[8] How much the additional US funding is, is not known.[9]
A Norwegian Intelligence Service victim on Wikispooks
| Title | Description |
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| Per Borten | Norwegian prime minister spied upon by the US and "his own" spooks. |
Employees on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | End |
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| Trond Johansen | Spook |
References
- ↑ https://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/kilder-om-e-tjenesten---bak-denne-dora-har-de-skjult-hemmelig-arkiv-med-400-samfunnstopper/62757150
- ↑ Bård Wormdal, Spionkrigen, page 208-209
- ↑ a b Arbeiderbladet 5. June 1994, via Gro-gate, page 359
- ↑ Dagbladet, Dec 2, 1999; via Gro-gate, page 359
- ↑ Klassekampen November 19, 1992; via Gro-gate, page 521
- ↑ a b https://steigan.no/2024/08/spionasje-er-grunnfjellet-mellom-usa-og-norge/
- ↑ https://spartakus.no/2023/06/26/hvem-arbeider-etterretningstjenesten-for/
- ↑ https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/etterretningstjenesten-styrkes-igjen-_-budsjetter-mer-enn-tredoblet-de-siste-15-arene-1.15192192
- ↑ https://spartakus.no/2023/06/26/hvem-arbeider-etterretningstjenesten-for/
