NO SMILES FOR A TOP SPY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606750004-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 1, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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1 July 1985
World Notes
No Smiles for a Top Spy
Former Diplomat, Politician and Journalist Arne Treholt,
42, was grinning last week as he entered Room 23 of the Oslo
courthouse. But by the time Judge Astri Rynning finished speak-
ing, the smile had vanished. After ?a 17-week trial, a panel of
judges found Treholt guilty of spying for the Soviet Union and
Iraq. Among the vital secrets he is believed to have passed along
in ten years as an undercover agent for the KGB: details of NATO
strategy and military contingency plans, alliance intelligence
documents on troubled areas and Norwegian government confi-
dential memos on meetings with world leaders. "Treholt has
caused irreparable damage to the Norwegian defense," said Fre-
drik Bull-Hansen, Norway's Chief of Defense.
Treholt, then head of the For-
eign Ministry's press office, was ar-
rested in 1984 in Oslo just before
boarding a plane for Vienna and
an alleged meeting with a KGB
general. He was carrying a brief-
case crammed with 65 classified
documents. "I wanted to arrange
better relations betweeen East and
West," he said, "but that does not
make me a spy." The Norwegian
court disagreed and sentenced him
to a maximum 20 years in prison.
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