Word: arbeiderbladet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Treholt, a former reporter for the Norwegian Labor Party daily newspaper Arbeiderbladet, went into government service in 1973 as political secretary to the Minister for Commerce and Shipping. The next year he allegedly handed over his first secrets about NATO defenses. According to the prosecution, Treholt claimed after his arrest that he had been secretly photographed in 1975 while at an orgy in Moscow. From then on, say Norwegian officials, he was a Soviet spy. He was posted in 1979 to the Norwegian delegation to the United Nations in New York, where he regularly handed over information to a Soviet...
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