This is a history of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) during the Cold War, based on its secret archives. The author describes a service that grew from a handful of specialists in 1946 to a multi-faceted organization with a personnel of about 1000 by the end of the 1960s.
This work is the first history of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) in the Cold War written by independent historians with full access to the archives of the service.
