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One problem with the “Shadow War” was that it did not look as if the NRK journalists had even tried to find out what the Russian vessels could have been doing when they made their allegedly suspicious tracks. I am still wondering what kind of qualification and knowledge about the matters of the sea the two journalists thought they had when, without doing any research, they claimed that the movements were suspicious only on the basis of the position information the vessels themselves transmitted.

Another problem was that the regional head of the Norwegian intelligence service in Finnmark claimed that it was scary having an HF radio on board a fishing vessel. He just said that. It’s scary with an HF radio on a fishing vessel. That was a very, very strange thing to say. It was even weirder that a policeman said it. And when the policeman was head of the intelligence service, the whole thing became almost absurd.

With a few lines of simple programming code, I was able to extract the tracks from the Russian vessels that NRK claimed were going in scary, unexplainable circles, and I found the name of the vessels that were anchored in the fjords. I then asked the parties responsible for the safety and security of our coast what the vessels had been doing. You will find the answers in the articles here. It was not as suspicious as the public broadcaster, NRK claimed. It was not suspicious at all.

And I uploaded the picture of what the head of the Norwegian intelligence service claimed to be a scary radio, capable of unmentionalble espionage acts, into a search engine and found that not even that did live up to expectations. For some strange reason, Roaldsnes trusted the information he received from a retired Briton, seemingly entering the series out of nowhere. There must have been a reason for that trust. It is only two reasons for an intelligence officer to trust a source. Either he knows the source himself, or someone he trusts has vouched for him. It would have been utterly sensational if that trusted party was the public broadcaster, so who then?

In a strange way, the series gives a unique glimpse into how we are influenced and how opinions are formed in Norway. And perhaps it also says something about how decisions are being influenced. And if so, who is in charge, who decides?

So, I was standing here with all this, I would say sensational information. And I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to publish. So, therefore, a small website.

Two articles in three parts, one article about the Norwegian public broadcaster, NRK, and one article about the Norwegian domestic intelligence service, PST. Two stories that appear beneath the tracks the broadcaster presented as suspicious. Regardless of whether you enjoyed the “Shadow War” or not, I think you will find the articles worth reading.