Treholt worked as secretary to the Norwegian Minister for the Law of the Sea in the early 1970s. In 1978, he received an important appointment: he became adviser to the UN Mission in Norway in New York. After working there for about four years, he entered the graduate school of the Norwegian Ministry of Defence.
His country is in NATO, the Americans are trying to completely impose their policy, their values on the closest neighbor of the Soviet Union. And their missiles, which must be installed at all costs in the northern part, where the Soviet-Norwegian border passes. The Cold War is in full swing. And one of his victims was, I don’t write “fallen”, the diplomat Arne Treholt.
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