OSLO, Norway — A security guard working at the U.S. embassy in Norway has been arrested on suspicion of espionage on behalf of Russia and Iran, a Norwegian security police official said on Thursday.
The man, a Norwegian citizen in his 20s, was arrested at his home on Wednesday, police said.
“The accused man was an employee, a security guard, at the U.S. embassy in Oslo,” Thomas Blom, a lawyer for the security police service PST, told reporters.
The man was cooperating and talking to officers, Blom said, adding that a “large” amount of digital material had been confiscated.
The man’s lawyer, John Christian Elden, said his client had been in contact with Russian and Iranian intelligence officers.
Persons:
” Thomas Blom, Blom, ”, John Christian Elden, ” Elden
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