Norwegian Intelligence Service
 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.
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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 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 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
| Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Per Borten | Norwegian prime minister spied upon by the US and "his own" spooks. |
Employees on Wikispooks
| Employee | Job | Appointed | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trond Johansen | Intelligence liaison | 1954 | 1958 |
| 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
- ↑ Klassekampen November 19, 1992; via Gro-gate, page 521
