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May have leaked Norwegian

military secrets

Herman Simm

It is feared that Norwegian top secret military information may have been passed on to the Russians by a senior Estonian security officer who was arrested in September on the suspicion of spying for a foreign power.

According to the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, the Estonian security chief for several yeaars had close contact with Norway, and had access to sensitive top secret NATO documents.

The Norwegian National Security Authority (NSM) has now started an investigation into which information the Estonian top security official may have had accss to, the newspaper writes. 

The man, Herman Simm, 61, was arrested together with his wife on September 21st. The officer headed the security department at the Estonian Defence Ministry between 2000 and 2006.

He is suspected of collecting classified information and passing it on to Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki (SVR).

Estonian authorities have not named the country involved, but the Baltic News Service (BNS) said it was Russia, BBC reports.

Source: (NRK/Aftenposten/BBC)