(Dagbladet): Having been on a circus performance on 9 January 1959, the 39-year-old Norwegian diplomat invited by two young Russians to an apartment in Moscow, where they drank liquor. When he had undressed and sat on the bed, stormed the Russian police into the apartment.
“Two men in dark coats and hats stood in the doorway, lightning blazed and photography apparatus clicked before someone got to sigh itself “, says the PST document.”
A colonel was summoned and should have given the Norwegian two choices. One choice was that the images would be handed the Foreign Ministry. The second choice was that he wrote this text in an interrogation document:
“I will in my ability at my side helping KGB with information that it needs.”
The diplomat even wrote this text and signed. The day after he told of the terrifying experience to his ambassador in Moscow. Shortly after he returned home to Oslo to give reports. He denied having given Russians information or documents that could harm Norway or allied countries.
Named as KGB agent
Dagbladet since summer written about Mitrokhin Archive. Archives naming a number of Norwegian toppdiplomater as KGB agents, among other things a Norwegian diplomat have been squeezed because of their homosexual orientation. He should have given at least a thousand Nato and UD documents 70s KGB, according to the archive. KGB gave diplomat deck name “Oscar”.
This is the same diplomat who was photographed in Moscow in 1959. Dagbladet has repeatedly talked diploma grenade family, they would not comment on this case.
Now Dagbladet gained access to nearly five hundred pages of investigative material from PST applicable diplomat, and a number of other diplomats who were monitoring the police spotlight.
In a number of interviews with monitoring police told the diplomat about how he was pressured by KGB . In 1971 he admitted having given UD documents to the KGB, but he claimed that there was talk of unclassified documents.
– Safety Risk
The then Chief of Police Intelligence Service (current PST) Asbjørn Bryhn reacted strongly to that one continued to use diplomat after the incident in Moscow. Already 31 January 1959 he sent his first warnings to the Foreign Ministry.
“On the basis of all the cases we now have faced it must be emphasized that people with such inclinations (…) represents a security risk” , writes Bryhn. In 1966 he warned again of Foreign Affairs.
“Only in recent years has occurred a significant number of cases where homosexuality, alcoholism, mess economy, extramarital adventures, illegal currency transactions and black is been exploited as a means of coercion “ wrote Bryhn.
Sex traps
Especially diplomats with homosexual orientation was vulnerable. Homosexuality was banned in Norway until 1972. In Russia, homosexuality first allowed in 1993. In a period just after World War II was ambassador, Counsellor and attackable heen at the Norwegian embassy in Moscow in love with the same Russian man, it stands in PST documents . Attachés is the same man who gave the KGB codename “Oscar”. He was 25 years old when he came to Moscow.
19. January 1959, he was interrogated by Oslo police.
“At that time I was – on the basis of the common people spoke – aware ambassador and Counsellor inclinations. Although I was unclear about that the same forces latent in me, but had always sought to counter them “, explains diplomat in interviews with PST.
The young Russian man was described as “slim, well-proportioned, wide face with a little coarse, regular features.” The man was a language teacher for the Norwegian diplomats.
The diplomat and the young Russian man met in the apartment of Counsellor when he was out. “This became known to the ambassador. He should have been angry and upset because he was jealous “, wrote attachés. He became aware that the KGB came with the relationship, and the Russian man chose to end contact.
Revolver under the pillow
Counsellor and attachés also had a relationship with a well thirty years old Russian . They were on many trips together. The Russian man was called in for questioning by the KGB.
“He had learned that they knew all about his relationship with Counsellor and me. They had shown him compromising photographs where also the ambassador and other Russians were involved “, said the diplomat to PST.
The Russian man ” now had the choice between exile or still dealings with me as contact man on condition that he could obtain information. He chose the latter, should he get the money and clothing », explained the diplomat. Also ambassador was subjected to strong pressure.
“The last time in Moscow went ambassador armed with a revolver. He had it under his pillow when he slept. “
The last days before the ambassador traveled was the phone until he constantly putting pressure on him. They wanted him to give information about Norway and other Western allies. The ambassador had lately worked to bring a young boy he had taken responsibility for Moscow. He wanted him to Norway. Authorities in Moscow accepted this application against the ambassador “stood at the disposal of certain facts.”
The last week before he left the Norwegian embassy, he should have been hysterical when Russians rang, it stands in PST file.
All three Norwegian diplomats returned home to Oslo, but attachés came back to Moscow in 1957 where he again was under pressure after Russian police took a picture of him and two young men.
Sauna images
Then the same diplomat later would serve as charge d’affaires at the Norwegian embassy in Athens, he came soon in contact with KGB men in the Greek capital. One of the new compounds his was the Russian Counsellor Vasily Andreevitsj Vorobiev, the same man who was guiding officer Douglas Britten, a boss technician at RAF who was sentenced to 21 years in prison for espionage for the Soviet Union.
The diplomat also continued their homosexual activities in Athens. That led to a Greek diplomat visited Undersecretary Thorvald Stoltenberg in Oslo on July 26, 1971. The Greek diplomat began the meeting by saying that he came in a very sad case. In a memo from the meeting states that the police had found the Norwegian diplomat while he had sexual relations with a young man in a bathroom in Athens. It was taken photographs.
In a memo from the meeting with Stoltenberg says:
“The action is contrary to the Greek legislation and the government had therefore declared the Norwegian who persona non grata “. The Norwegian diplomat had to travel immediately and packing was entrusted to the embassy. It was necessary: “in the interests of the two states” .
Last meeting
The Norwegian diplomat said afterwards that he felt he was cheated in a trap in Athens, and that it was all planned from the Greek police. As a diplomat, he had warned strongly against the Greek regime policy. He acknowledged that he had given up some documents to his Russian contacts in Athens, but argued that this was only documents that were not graded.
When the KGB for the last time met diplomat 80s he had enough, according to Mitrokhin Archive. In the archive says: “But he assured KGB that he had not told anything about the details of their relationship to the KGB, and that he would rather not do it, as long as they” let him be at peace. ‘”
Top diplomat was never charged, indicted or convicted of espionage by Norwegian authorities. All three diplomats continued to work in various positions in the Foreign Ministry and by numerous embassies.

