ABSTRACT
A history of the Norwegian intelligence service (NIS) has to devote some attention to domestic security issues, even though they were not intelligence matters as such and also played a diminishing part in the daily life of Evang. The organisation of the security police, and the question of co-ordination between Norwegian agencies and the intelligence service, was the subjects of high-level discussions from April 1947. With an uninhabited border area towards the Soviet Union, intelligence activities would go in parallel and sometimes hand in hand with the work of frontier security and counter-espionage. It is seen that from the start the Intelligence Staff had responsibilities for security within the military. The security police and the security section of the intelligence staff should provide the relevant information about the candidate, leaving the conclusion about that person's suitability to the responsible military chief. The outbreak of the Korean War created concern about the nation's general preparedness, and not least about internal security.
