In the book “Spy base,” which launched on Wednesday, seven former intelligence people forward and talking about close cooperation with the American CIA and NSA.
The book is written by NRK journalist Bård Wormdal. In addition to the interviews, he has sought and found new sources via the Internet. Sources stating how little Finnmark fell to great politics in the city without it has been known until now – 27 years later.
– This is an example of an international conflict related to Finnmark that have not been known publicly. It is conceivable that there are other episodes the public have not been informed, says Wormdal.
Norway was afraid to provoke
Bård Wormdal comes with More new information about intelligence service in his new book, among them about how Globus 1 in Vardo landed in the center of a conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. Photo: Knut-Sverre Horn
In 1988, the now old radar Globus stood 30 years in Vardo. It is ready to be replaced.
Vardo is strategically toward Russia with a horizon out at sea, toward the neighbor, a horizon so far that one can sense the curvature of the globe. Out there practicing the mighty Russian Northern Fleet,
Even further away extends courts for intercontinental test rockets and satellites. Vardo, located far away from most, is a perfect place to monitor neighbor to the east.
Globus is a radar Nato on occasions have wanted to get attached to its notification chain, NADGE. But Norway was afraid to provoke neighbor to the east, Russia. Therefore it has never been connected.
Helge Stormo is among people who are the source of WORMDAL book. He was chief of the radar facility in Vardo.
In 1982, he heads with his wife and children and moving to USA. The intelligence service wanted a new radar in place in Vardo, and Stormo should help to sketch and liaison between the US Air Force and the Norwegian intelligence service.
– I helped with information on weather and other conditions in Vardo. It was important for the process that it was a local representative there, he told NRK.
Stormo traveling home to Vardo after a few years. In 1988 arrives a new radar Finnmark city, Globus 1.
When innovation came into place got it no attention locally or nationally, but it made it internationally.
Suspected Soviet Union
But first: the same year that Globus 1 arriving Vardo, get the United States with a dramatic threat: They threaten to cancel further cooperation with the Soviet Union about further reduction of nuclear weapons.
This happens after the United States and the Soviet Union have met for talks in Geneva. In the meetings that are taking place in six days express US displeasure with how the Soviet Union complies with the ABM Treaty.
This Agreement shall prevent any of the countries can carry out a nuclear attack against the other, without getting taste of their own Medicine: A counter with nuclear weapons.
USA like therefore that the Soviet Union is working on a new advanced radar at the border with Mongolia.
Such radar systems may result missiles, and is therefore extremely necessary to know where to shoot. For it is good to know where to shoot, when it comes to an exercise that can be compared to shoot down a bullet with another.
The radar Soviet Union set up by Mongolia thus be central if the Soviet Union tries to develop a missile shield.
With such a missile shield can USSR hypothetical conduct a nuclear attack against the US, but when the United States will respond to this attack with nuclear weapons, this would have been stopped – by the missile shield.
Therefore missile shield disputed, and not allowed under the ABM Treaty.
Russian dissatisfaction
But even if the United States suspect the Soviet Union to use its radar systems as the foundation for developing a nationwide missile shield, then the suspicion mutual. Very mutually.
For the case has in fact also has another side: 3012 kilometers away meeting delegates in Geneva, but considerably closer to the Soviet Union, in Vardo, it was also just been placed technologically, advanced radar – a radar Russians not had the sense at all.
In the autumn of 1988 continued during the Cold War, radar completed and operational. But most importantly, it was American.
In WORMDAL book comes it now emerges that this radar was the key issue when the United States and the Soviet Union met for talks in Geneva.
And yes , we’re talking of course about Globus 1
Globus 1 is thus a far more advanced radar than its predecessor. It says Helge Stormo, which explains the difference in brief:
– The old radar, Globus, was no more than a basic radar on a fishing boat. Globus 1 could see several targets simultaneously. Beyond that I will not go into details, he said.
Being able to see more targets simultaneously, the same characteristics as the Soviets’ search radar close the Mongolian border – the Americans are skeptical.
Author Wormdal is clear on what was intended to Globus 1:
– The radar was affiliated with the Norwegian intelligence service to obtain the greatest possible view of Russian military activity, he explains.
A source in the Defence Intelligence says in the book that Globus 1 had as only task to oversee the launch of Russian intercontinental missiles from land and sea.
Vardo is strategically toward Russia. Photo: Atle Markeng / NRK
Problematic
In a publicly known note after the Geneva meetings promotes United States their views on the matter, but the Russians’ dissatisfaction with Globus 1 in Vardo mentioned not a word.
USSR is otherwise dissatisfied with several American radars, including in Britain and Greenland. Globus 1s geographical position provoked to anger the Russians, however, points out Wormdal:
– Everything that is on the border with Russia is problematic on the Russian side. It is 40 kilometers from the Russian border to Vardo. In comparison, Norway had many self-imposed restrictions on how military operations should be in Finnmark not to provoke the Russians.
You mean it is a spy radar
The Americans withdrew not from ABM Treaty by Geneva meetings, and the threat to withdraw remained, precisely, only a threat.
13 years later alerted However, then-President George W. Bush that he would withdraw from the agreement to guard against so-called “rogue states “.
Today there is another radar in Vardo, Globus 2. Vardo radar, as it is also called, still creates irritation in the Russians, who believe that it is a spy radar.
– This is a constant irritation from the Russian side. The radar is owned by the US Air Force and modernized almost a billion kroner. It says something about the priorities of Americans, says Wormdal.
It may seem as though the Americans have made good estimates on the strategic location Vardo radar would stand, but the meteorological conditions have created challenges.
On two occasions the fabric of the dome blown off. The first time, in 1999, found NRK reason to take action and called simply the American spy office National Security Agency (NSA) and told that “the canvas was gone.”
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