ABSTRACT
The air force leadership had as early as 1951 taken up the question of obtaining from the United States equipment for a tactical electronic intelligence section, as well as assistance with training of personnel. This had been done through the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) in Oslo, an American body which had been founded to administer American weapons aid. The cover name for the whole electronic intelligence service in the air force was to be The Air Force Radio Squadron. Evangs May 1957 proposals had as their first point that the electronic intelligence service in Finnmark, with the stations HEKLA and NABBEN, ought to be organised as one unit and placed at the disposition of the Chief of Defence Staff. Very often the term electronic intelligence was used in a kind of short-hand to include both Comint and Elint, when in fact Sigint or signals intelligence would have been the correct term.
