# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arne-treholt
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:56:09.105Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arne-treholt"
name: "Arne Treholt"
slug: "arne-treholt"
description: "Arne Treholt was a Norwegian civil servant, diplomat and Labour Party politician who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Iraq. Treholt served as the State Secretary under Norwegian Minister of Maritime Law, Jens Evensen, from 1976–78, as a Norwegian counsellor at the United Nations in New York from 1979–82, as a student at the Norwegian Joint Staff College from 1982–83, and head of the press department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1983. He held connections with Soviet and Iraqi agents during this period. Treholt was arrested in 1984 and sentenced to 20 years in prison for espionage the following year, but was pardoned in 1992. He was the first Norwegian to be convicted of espionage."
tagline: "Norwegian politician and spy (1942–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Arne_Treholt_2010.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "NO"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1942-12-13"
deathDate: "2023-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.542449773169151
  historical:           14.33078266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4130889/"
    handle:    "nm4130889"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump