KGB IN NORWAY'S FOREIGN OFFICE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00806R000100130001-5
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• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 24, 2011
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• Publication Date: February 21, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
21 February 1984
JAN BROGGER
The'freholt case is, for a number ,
of reasons, particularly shocking to
the left-wing establishment in Nor-
way, which tends to -regard the in-
fluence agent asa phantom created
by paranoic right-wingers. The left
wing, having gained ascendance in
the Labor Party during the 1980s,
was about to establish , an anti- ;
NATO posture, -signaled by its op-
position to the deployment of Per-
shing and Cruise ,missiles-. . in
Europe.
Although the Labor Party is.fer_
vently trying to belittle Mr,
Treholt's role in this opposition, it
was too prominent to be'denied en.
tirely. As personal secretaryto Jens
Evensen, member of the Cabinet of
former Prime Minister :'Odvar
Nordli, Mr. Treholt is known to be
the brain behind Mr. Evensen's pro-
posal for the so-called Atomic Free
Zones in Scandinavia. That pro-
posal soon became. the:. official
policy of the Labor Patty, :paving'
the way for its opposition to the Per-
shing and Cruise missiles:- , -
Aftenposten, Norway''-Ieading
daily newspaper; states that :Mr.
Evensen's speech was' actually
written by Mr. Treholt. He also en
listed Mr. Evensen for a peace rally
KGB in
Norway's
forei
Office?.
ate in January, Arne
lreholt, a prominent offi-
cial from the Norwegian
Foreign Office, was ar-
rested at an airport outside Oslo
while on his way to Vienna, Austria,
to meet KGB Gen. Gennedij Tito%
who had been expelled from Nor- a few years earlier. Mr. Treholt,
who as acting leader of the press
division of the foreign office had
managed the visit of Vice President
George Bush a few days earlier, was
caught with secret documents ' in
his briefcase.
Realizing the game was up, Mr.
Treholt chose to cooperate with
Norwegian intelligence. His arrest
sent shock waves throughout the
Labor Party, where he had been ac-
five for a number of years. The vice
chairman of the party, Einar Forde,
deeply troubled, admitted that he
was a close friend of Mr. heholt.
He was not the only one. A
charming extrovert, Mr. Treholt
had a wide circle of friends not only
in the Labor Party, but also among -
journalists and intellectuals, all of
whom he betrayed with the cool-
ness of a Kim Philby.
Mr. Treholt was not only a con-
ventional spy, one who transmitted
top secrets to the Soviet intelli-
gence, but also a prominent exan-
ple of the influence agent, who ac-
tively manipulates opinions and
decisions.
organized by the Soviet-front orga-
nization World Peace . Council
Even more - shocking is'Mr.'-
Treholt's role in the 1976 negoti-
ations in Moscow on the division of-
the Barents Sea. The provisional
agreement negotiated by Mr. Even-
sen weakens the Norwegian claim
to a vast area with possibly-
enor-mous deposits of oil and gas: 'In
spite of strong opposition from the
conservative and center. parties,.
the agreement was signed-by the
Labor premier. Mr. Treholt was not
only providing the KGB with infor-
mation on the Norwegian strategy,
he also worked hard to influence the
Norwegian press. A number, of
journalists present in Moscow were
literally taken- for a ride by Mr.
Treholt, who organized an excur-
sion to Murmansk to keep them
away from the action.
From 1979 until 1981 Mr. Treholt
was a senior member of the Norwe-
gian delegation to the United Na-
tions in New York. But Norwegian
intelligence, assisted by the FBI, by ?
that time had begun an investiga-
tion. Mr. Trebolt, a passionate jog-
ger, met his KGB contacts while
running in -Central Park. FBI
agents made several photographs
'of his -encounters with Soviet con-
tacts, probably :, getting , a fair
amount of exercise in the process.
- A question, raised by many Nor-
wegians these days is whether Mr.
Treholt has unknown colleagues in
the ' 'Norwegian administration.
Norwegian intelligence believes he '
has. .
"- ' Charges of Soviet manipulations
-
within' the peace - movement and
other, left-leaning circles are usu-
.ally dismissed as McCarthyism-by
Europe's intellectuals. Those who,
in spite of vilification and abuse,
have persisted'in their-belief in So-viet subversion have received unso-.
licitedassistancefroatMr.lreholt. -.1
Maybe our generation will never
know the extent of Soviet infiltra-
tion of Western elites, but ideas be-'
come not only a legitimate but in-
deed an urgentconcern. -___
Jan Brogger is A professor of so-
anthropology at the University
cial
of 7tondheim.
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