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...secretary, A.K. Printsipalov, the KGB operative who was caught passing documents to Haavik. Last week still another Russian departed on a one-way trip to Moscow. He was G.F. Titov, officially a counselor in the Soviet embassy in Oslo but in fact the KGB spy master for the entire Norwegian operation...
...late last month Gunvor Galtung Haavik, a 64-year-old clerk in Norway's Foreign Ministry, went for a stroll along a snowy path in suburban Oslo. As if by chance, she stopped to talk to a man. Suddenly the night air was filled with shouts. As some Norwegian counterespionage agents charged from behind trees and snowbanks, others jumped from cruising taxicabs. They swiftly wrestled the man to the ground, grabbed a packet that he had given Haavik and hustled the woman off to jail. The trusted, spinsterly Miss Haavik, who routinely handled secret documents, had been a Soviet...
...Haavik as a Soviet agent evidently stemmed from her lifelong infatuation with everything Russian-especially men. Her first affair, in the 1930s, was innocent enough: it involved a refugee Soviet artist who left her with fluent Russian. Then, at the end of World War II, Haavik was recruited by Norwegian forces to work as a nurse and interpreter with Soviet prisoners who had been held by the Nazis in local P.O.W. camps. There she fell in love again...
During a freewheeling session with the NATO Council in Brussels, he reminded a representative of Norway that "as a Senator from Minnesota, I probably have more Norwegian constituents than you." The chamber erupted in laughter. In a smoke-filled room full of Common Market leaders, he apologized for his love of Cuban cigars, which are banned in the U.S., and promised to do penance by "donating a few to my favorite charity." During a visit to 10 Downing Street, Mondale helped strengthen the Atlantic alliance by joining British Prime Minister James Callaghan and other British officials in a spontaneous rendition...
Aching eardrums are the least of the problems caused by the Soviet signal. Norwegian ship-to-shore radio has been blocked on occasion; telecommunications between Western nations and their embassies in Asia and the Middle East have been impeded. Radio operators as far away as Australia have been bothered by the transmissions...