page_title: Arne Treholt
section_title: Incarceration and release
hierarchical_section_title: Arne Treholt / Incarceration and release
caption_attribution_description: Norsk bokmål: Ila Jail in Baerum in Norway Ila fengsel, forvaring- og sikringsanatalt
context_page_description: Arne Treholt is a Norwegian former KGB agent who was convicted of treason and espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union against Norway during the Cold War. Before his arrest in 1984 he was successively a journalist, a junior Norwegian Labour Party politician and a medium-level official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Norway. Treholt's espionage is generally seen as the most serious spy case in the modern history of Norway. He was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to 20 years in prison the following year, of which he served nine in a maximum security prison. After his release from prison in 1992, Treholt moved to Russia where he started a company together with a former KGB general. Following his arrest Treholt was described as "the greatest traitor to Norway since Quisling." After his release from prison Treholt has occasionally been active in public debate, and he has been accused by Norwegian media of promoting Russian propaganda."
context_section_description: Treholt was incarcerated in Drammen Prison from 1984 to 1985. He was transferred to Ila Prison, a maximum security prison for dangerous criminals, in 1985. In 1986, prison officials discovered that he planned to break out, and he was swiftly transferred to another maximum security prison for long term inmates, Ullersmo Prison.
  On 3 July 1992 he was reprieved by the Labour government of Gro Harlem Brundtland. His pardon by Gro Harlem Brundtland's Labour government in 1992, was controversial.
  He was imprisoned for more than 8 years.
caption: Ila Prison
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