ABSTRACT
The final agreement the first official, formal NORUSA agreement bore the title Communications Intelligence Agreement, and was dated 10 December 1954. For the NIS the agreement became the vehicle for a strong expansion of its Comint work, regarding collection as well as analysis and assessment of the intelligence material. One of the veterans of the NIS, Knut Willy Kval, who rose to become its deputy director before retiring in 1996, has offered this merciless comment: The NORUSA agreement was the foundation for a strong expansion of the NISs Comint activity. An initial comment on the US expansion requests, from Jon K. Brynildsen as head of the Comint section, showed clear reservations against such a sharp increase, for several reasons. It was therefore natural that it should also wish to control or at least co-ordinate both Comint and Elint work in relation to the Americans, with the link between the NIS and the CIA Oslo station as the main conduit.
