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...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 confidential memos on meetings with world leaders. "Treholt has caused irreparable damage to the Norwegian defense," said Fredrik Bull-Hansen, Norway's Chief of Defense...
...Oslo just before boarding a plane for Vienna and an alleged meeting with a KGB general. He was carrying a briefcase 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...
...Most of the folks around here are Norwegian, Swedish, Danish or Finnish and are very conservative," season-ticket holder Peter Jacobson explains. "They are all Lutherans, and Lutherans don't display their emotions...
According to court papers made public last week, Treholt stands accused of handing over a wide array of secrets, including details of Norwegian and NATO air-defense systems, as well as reports describing the defense of Norway's strategic border with the Soviet Union. Some Western intelligence officials fear that his activities have been highly damaging to NATO...
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...