CIA paid Norwegian journalist to make guerilla documentaries
The Norwegian producer Bjørn Hallstrøm claims he worked for the CIA in the 80s and 90s; posing as a journalist in Afghanistan, Colombia, Libya; while producing documentaries for Norwegian state television.
Documentaries and reports that were broadcast on Norwegian State Television and other Nordic channels were financed by American intelligence, Norwegian Bjørn Hallstrøm tells for the first time.
Bjørn Hallstrøm says that the job for the CIA was threefold:
- He was going to film and pretend to just be a documentarian.
- He was supposed to infiltrate , enter networks and find out, among other things, who was in a position of leadership and decision-making.
- In addition, the intelligence service is said to have asked if he could have the reports and documentaries broadcast on TV .
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Bjørn Hallstrøm was known as an eccentric advertising man, and also as a passionate TV producer who gained access to closed environments and some of the world's most dangerous areas.
Norwegian State Television has been investigating his hitherto secret history and the documents he has hoarded for a long time. He is speaking publicly and in detail for the first time about having worked for the CIA.
Under the guise of simply being a journalist and TV producer, the Norwegian traveled with his own unsuspecting TV team to war-torn and dangerous countries, among other places. Afghanistan, Colombia, Cuba, Kuwait and Libya, to name a few.
Under the guise of simply being a journalist and TV producer, the Norwegian traveled with his own unsuspecting TV team to war-torn and dangerous countries, among other places.
Read Google translate of article from the Norwegian state television.
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