Talk:Arne Treholt
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What did the Iraqis want to know about? One can see that Russia was in a position to take an active hand in Norway's internal administration should it choose to take on NATO, but Iraq? Was this information on how to make or extract heavy water? Midgley 21:20, 28 March 2006 (UTC) http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/5735/5735.ch01.html mentions collating information on resident Kurds in various countries - somehow that seems unlikely. Midgley 21:27, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
- Midgley, by all means, go around this wikipedia deleting things that you find "unlikely" and insert opinions you agree with as facts, but he was convicted of espionage in favor of Iraq [1] [2] [3] and many many others. The sources don't specify what types of secrets he disclosed, beyond saying they were NATO secrets; my best recollection was that it was about military technology; since 1944, there have emerged other military secrets than the production of heavy water. --Leifern 22:25, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
- Thank you for that helpful contribution, though not the tone in which it is made which is not WP:CIVIL. I see we agree that it probably wasn't information on the Kurdish residents of Norway and have both read the article. At that time Iraq as well as having an interest in nuclear proliferation had an interest in artillery and I suppose all the panoply of war, but mostly they satisifed it by buying it from states. In the UK there was the Matrix Churchill affair, which was suggested in some quarters had connections to national policy. Midgley 23:02, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
- Talking of revisionist and POV, the history of this article is instructive. Midgley 23:06, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
