Aftenposten

Aftenposten   (Newspaper)
Formation	14. May 1860
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Type	newspaper
Owners	Schibsted
Subpage	•Aftenposten/Editor in chief
Norwegian newspaper with high Bilderberg attendance.

Aftenposten is one of Norway's largest print and online newspapers. It has a heavily Bilderberg habit.

The media corporation Schibsted is the main owner.

History

Historically, Aftenposten labelled itself as "independent, conservative", most closely aligning their editorial platform with the Norwegian Conservative Party. This manifested itself in blunt anti-communism during the interwar era.

After the German occupation of Norway in 1940, Aftenposten was one of very few Norwegian newspapers that was allowed to continue to be published. At the reorganization of 12 September 1941, the newspaper's editorial positions were forcibly filled by people from the pro-Nazi party Nasjonal Samling. Many of the employees in the new NS-loyal management could be picked from the editorial staff's already existing people.

During the newspaper legal settlement after the war, Aftenposten, which had had a total turnover of NOK 60.9 million during the war, and an estimated profit of NOK 3.5 million, in the autumn of 1949 entered into a confidential agreement to pay NOK. 100,000 to the Treasury. In comparison, Bergens Tidende and Adresseavisen, both of which had significantly less income than Aftenposten, paid NOK 194,000 and NOK 600,000. This was due to the fact that the agreements were confidential, and that the newspapers therefore did not know how much the others had to pay. The content of these agreements first became known in 1990.

As many other newspapers had to stop operating, Aftenposten established an almost advertising monopoly during the war, which laid the foundation for the newspaper's dominant position even in the post-war period.

During the Cold War, Aftenposten was strongly anti-communist and pro-American. The newspaper was one of the strongest critics in Norway of the Soviet Union and the Norwegian Communist Party, NKP. From the beginning, the newspaper wholeheartedly supported NATO. The newspaper also marked itself early on as a supporter of European integration, and has always supported Norwegian membership of the EU.

As a bourgeois newspaper, Aftenposten has always supported the monarchy, and gives ample coverage of the royal family.

In line with the depoliticisation of the country's newspapers, the Conservative Party stamp on Aftenposten also gradually disappeared throughout the 1980s, the paper becoming more social liberal.

NATO psychological warfare

For almost seven years, Henrik Jørgen Huitfeldt, the major shareowner of Schibsted, Aftenposten's mother company, was Norway's representative in NATO's supreme body for psychological warfare, PCC or "Psyops Coordination Committee". Huitfeldt was a member of the Advisory Assembly for Psychological Operations in SHAPE from 1989 to 1996. This happened while he was still a not insignificant shareholder in the media group Schibsted. When his father died in 1979, he inherited 5.6 percent of the group. He and his two siblings owned the majority of the shares. Their father was Henrik Schibsted Huitfeldt , who from the end of the German occupation in May 1945 and for a generation to come was one of the newspaper's editors-in-chief.

The shares were sold by Henrik Jørgen Huitfeldt in 1992. This happened in the wake of sharp conflicts within Schibsted towards the end of the 1980s. This battle was won by Tinius Nagell-Erichsen. In 1989, Schibsted came to an end as a conglomerate of family-owned, individual companies.

Almost no one knew that Norway had a representative in NATO's Psyops body, nor that there was a major shareholder in Schibsted sitting there, appointed by the [high command of the Armed Forces.

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Kjetil Alstadheim	Editor	2019
Per Egil Hegge	Washington correspondent	1962	1992
Per Egil Hegge	Editor	1984	1988
Per Egil Hegge	Moscow Correspondent	1962	1992	Evicted in 1971.
Per Egil Hegge	Washington correspondent	1977	1981
Per Egil Hegge	Editor	1992	1998
Tinius Nagell-Erichsen	CEO	1970	1983	Attended Bilderberg/1982
Nils Udgaard	Editor	1995	2007

 

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