US/Ambassador/Norway

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(Ambassador to Norway)
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Ambassador Philip Crowe was a spook. During World War II, he worked in the Office of Strategic Services. He was a part of the The 1001 Club.

Start8 March 1905
InterestsNorway
The United States ambassador to Norway.

The United States Ambassador to Norway is the United States' highest diplomatic representative to Norway.

Overview

Norway joined NATO in 1949, and was part of the Marshall Plan.[1]

Embassy building

From June 1959 to May 2017, the embassy was located in central Oslo, in Henrik Ibsen Street 48. In 2010, several pensioned high-ranking Norwegian intelligence leaders were exposed as being hired by the embassy to commit "private" surveillance of Norwegian persons of interest.

Since 2017, the embassy is located at Huseby in Western Oslo, just a few meters from the Norwegian Huseby military base, in the process removing a 40 acre green space, to local protests.[2]

In 2019, work started on a "water treatment plant " at Huseby, an underground space officially the size of a football arena. The plant will require 100,000 truckloads of rubble to be removed, which will mostly be done through a three-kilometre cross-impact tunnel from Huseby down to the sea.[3]

Office in Tromsø

On June 1, 2023, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced during his visit to Oslo that the United States will establish a diplomatic office (American Presence Post) in Tromsø, in Northern Norway.[4] This came at the same time as the US massively increased its military presence in the region.



 

Office Holders on Wikispooks

NameFromTo
Philip Crowe19691973
Clifton Wharton2 March 19614 September 1964
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