(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.
KGB colonel Nikolaj Krymovs team, three men besides himself – had rigged up outside. Entice Duen gave them a signal and KGB team stormed into the room where they found the Norwegian diplomat naked.
“Two men in dark coats and hats stood in the doorway, lightning blazed and photography device click before someone got to sigh, “ explained later Norwegian diplomat in an interrogation with PST.
Got KGB ultimatum
The Norwegian diplomat got 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. Krymov he gave respite to the day after accepting the offer. They watched him throughout the night and saw the despairing “Oscar” go sleepless around in his apartment. KGB had given him the code name “Oscar”.
Code Name “Oscar”
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.
«Oscar» is the same diplomat who was photographed in Moscow in 1959. Dagbladet has repeatedly talked diploma grenade family, they do not want to comment this case.
Last week Dagbladet got 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 several interviews with monitoring police told the diplomat about how he was pressured by the KGB. In 1971 he admitted having given UD documents to the KGB, but he claimed that there was talk of unclassified documents.
In an interview with documentary director and writer Ola Flyum in May 1993, told the now deceased Nikolaj Krymov about his role in the “Oscar” -saken. Krymov was chief of Scandinavian department in other main directorate. Before he became leader, he had sole responsibility for monitoring the Norwegian Embassy.
Haavik heir
Krymov had long good control of the embassy as their Norwegian great spy Gunvor Galtung Haavik reported regularly on what was happening. When she went from Moscow in 1956, he wanted a new source in the Norwegian embassy.
Two people pointed out: The new embassy secretary Ingeborg Lygren – who took over after Powys – and the new Counsellor “Oscar.” They arrived Moscow respectively in 1956 and 1957.
In 1957 woke KGB interest in the Norwegian Embassy in earnest. Since all US citizens were under heavy surveillance, needed help from the CIA collaborative services. The Norwegian intelligence chief Vilhelm Evang said yes to such cooperation. “Oscar” was not part of this, but two of his colleagues were CIA couriers – including embassy secretary Ingeborg Lygren.
mapped diplomat
Krymov initiated an extensive survey of the “Oscar”. He was suave and gregarious, played piano and was very powerful language. He spoke several European languages - including Russian. However, what he did interesting for the KGB, his interest for Russian men. 50s there were special clubs in Moscow where these frequented. “Oscar” was careless and got a close relationship with a gay Russian.
Nikolai Krymov got picked Russian for questioning and forced him to be decoy for the KGB. The day after the heavily-pressed diplomat to the Embassy.
According Krymov let diplomat all the cards on the table to the ambassador and was immediately sent back to Norway. Nikolaj Krymov la «Oscar» on ice.
In 1967 joined Krymov as head of the KGB’s Scandinavian department in contra espionage. He never got to know about “the Oscar-case” was reactivated:
– Are the pictures of the “Oscar” is still in the KGB archives ?, asked Flyum in 1993.
– They we never be destroyed. No one will see them. Only when someone high up will see them, they can be taken forward, said Nikolai Krymov and smiled.
– Should have given a thousand documents
KGB residenturaen in Oslo continued to study diplomat in Norway. He worked for a period as 2nd Secretary of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Later he got a job as charge d’affaires in Athens. In 1967 socket restored to what is called “noncommittal” basis, ie in informal forms. The Norwegian diplomat was extremely critical of the military dictatorship in Greece and this was used by the KGB to establish a confidential contact with him.
In Mitrokhin Archive says: “NN (diplomat) agreed Having confidential contact and as a result of this he handed over a number of secret documents that concerned Greek conditions. In return he received valuable gifts, especially two icons. “
In 1971, the diplomat included in KGB web as ” document agent “ , says the PST document. He often had meetings with the Russian Counsellor Vasily Andreevitsj Vorobiev, the same man who was guiding officer Douglas Britten, a boss technician at RAF (British Air Force) who was sentenced to 21 years in prison for espionage for the Soviet in 1968.
In Mitrokhin documents reads: “More than 1,000 pages of documents related to NATO and Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was received from him in exchange for material things. He gave material that was related to the NATO countries’ participation in the NATO Council manner in Brussels in December 1970 and in Lisbon in June 1971, as well as conditions that concerned the relationship between the United States and Greece. “
In PST assessment stated that “Oscar” handed over documents under great pressure and after much hesitation and reluctance. He resisted being transferred as a secret contact and tried to legalize meetings as regular diplomatic contacts.
acknowledged KGB contact
In an interrogation document dated 23 August 1971 recognizing the diplomat that he met the Russian Counsellor Vasily Andreevitsj Vorobiev from time to time. It could be about two to three months and down to a few weeks between each time they met. Most often went hand in that they were out to lunch together.
In questioning the document reads: “The conversation with the Russians revolved essentially on the Greek regime, the situation in Cyprus (…) and if economic developments in Greece. In connection with these discussions showed testified Vorobiev quarterly reports that the economic department of the US Embassy compiled over the status of balance of payments (…) The reports were unclassified. In two to three cases got Vorobiev keep these reports. “
In 1971, the diplomat surprised by Greek police when he was on a visit to a bathroom with a young man 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. I note from the meeting with Stoltenberg says: “The action violates the Greek legislation and the government had therefore declared the Norwegian who persona non grata.”.
The diplomat had to return to Oslo where he was functioning NK (second in command) at the Administration Department of the Foreign Ministry. In 1972 had KGB resident clock in Oslo a secret meeting with him in the city, but several attempts to get him at such meetings did not succeed. He refused to engage in secret collaboration in Norway. That led to the KGB decided to wait until another opportunity arose.
The last meeting
In April 1977 he was appointed ambassador to India. Attempts by the KGB to re-establish contact agent failed. In 1980, the KGB officer, who had been in contact with the Norwegian diplomat in Oslo, posted in India.
In Mitrokhin documents reads: “They met twice during March in diplomatmottakelser but NN (diplomat) yielded not on attempts to get to a meeting in the city from the KGB officer. NN (diplomat) had expressed that if such a meeting took place, he was obliged to report it to their superiors and that he had plans to incur some risk, especially since the retirement age approached. He assured KGB officer that he had not told anyone about the special relationship he had with the Soviet Union and that he intended to report on the recent inquiry if they let him alone. Since NN (diplomat) had given such clear signals, decided the leaders of the KGB’s first main directorate that it should not be made several attempts to re-establish contact. “
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