This is a history of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) during the Cold War, based on its secret archives. The author describes a service that grew from a handful of specialists in 1946 to a multi-faceted organization with a personnel of about 1000 by the end of the 1960s.
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The Norwegian intelligence service (NIS) may be said to have had two or even three starting points: 1940, 1942 and 1946. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electronic intelligence service, acoustic station, intelligence staff, defence staff, cipher section, telemetry station, million kroner, sound surveillance system, radio section, unsigned memo, staff element, intelligence material Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, Prime Minister, Ministry of Defence, Barents Sea, Martens Meyer, Defence Ministry, Defence Chief, Co-ordination Committee, Novaya Zemlya, Kola Peninsula, Cabinet Committee, Defence High Command, Minister of Defence, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Roscher Lund, Cold War, Defence Council, Foreign Ministry, Vilhelm Evang, Norwegian Sea, Second World War, Norwegian Comint, Colonel Evang, Andreas Andersen New!
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The Norwegian intelligence service (NIS) may be said to have had two or even three starting points: 1940, 1942 and 1946. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electronic intelligence service, acoustic station, intelligence staff, defence staff, cipher section, telemetry station, million kroner, sound surveillance system, radio section, unsigned memo, staff element, intelligence material Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Soviet Union, Prime Minister, Ministry of Defence, Barents Sea, Martens Meyer, Defence Ministry, Defence Chief, Co-ordination Committee, Novaya Zemlya, Kola Peninsula, Cabinet Committee, Defence High Command, Minister of Defence, Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Roscher Lund, Cold War, Defence Council, Foreign Ministry, Vilhelm Evang, Norwegian Sea, Second World War, Norwegian Comint, Colonel Evang, Andreas Andersen New!
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- The United States and the Cold War in the High North by Rolf Tamnes on page 65, page 66, and Back Matter
- Intelligence Power in Peace and War by Michael Herman on page 233, page 234, and Back Matter
- Military Objectives in Soviet Foreign Policy by Michael K. McCgwire on page 188, and Back Matter
- Leaders and Intelligence (Studies in Intelligence) by Michael I. Handel in Front Matter
- Secret Service (Issues Series) by Duncan Campbell in Front Matter
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