ABSTRACT
Co-operation with the United States, being by far the most important aspect of Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) foreign relations, is reflected throughout this chapter. The exchange of information between Norway and its two main co-operating partners, the United States and UK, was of mutual benefit. British and American willingness to provide information can hardly be interpreted otherwise than that they in terms of such professional bargains also received important information. The chapter shows how the NIS already in 1946 established fruitful contact with the Swedes in FRA (Frsvarets Radioanstalt). This became very useful when the NIS in 1946 began developing its own radio control section, with TORKEL as the first out-station in Finnmark. Concrete co-operation with the United States took off as we have seen in 1952, specially in the Comint sector, and from 1954 the United States was firmly ensconced as Norway's main intelligence partner, with Comint as the groundwork.
