For residents of Kirkenes, on the border of Norway and Russia, espionage is an everyday fact of life
rode Berg was a border inspector on the brink of retirement when, in 2014, he was first recruited by the Norwegian Intelligence Service . Berg was based in Kirkenes, a town of 3,500 nestled amid the pine forests and rocky fjords in the north of Norway, five miles from the Russian border. Kirkenes is known for two things: its king crab and its spies. Accordingly, Berg was no stranger to theNIS
On his last run, just before Christmas of 2017, Berg’s worst fears were realised: he was rolled up outside his Moscow hotel by the FSB, Russia’s domestic security service Almost everybody in Kirkenes knows who the spooks are. “When people say, ‘I work in the military,’” Torbjørn Brox Webber, a Lutheran priest who lives in Kirkenes, told me, “and you follow up with, ‘Oh, what do you do?’ If they start talking about the weather instead of answering your question, you understand you shouldn’t ask them more about it.”
officials. To Berg’s surprise, they even knew about alcoholism issues in the family of one of his handlers, a detail the man had guarded carefully. Other Norwegians interrogated by thehave reported similar revelations. In one case, Russian intelligence officers showed a Norwegian in their custody a photograph of the living room in the third-storey flat he maintained in Kirkenes, which he concluded must have been taken by a drone.
In one case, Russian intelligence officers showed a Norwegian in their custody a photograph of the living room in the third-storey flat he maintained in Kirkenes, which he concluded must have been taken by a drone
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