Treholt Olympic guest of honor
 Former Greek foreign minister Georg Papandreu has invited Arne Treholt (photo) to the Athens Olympic Games as a guest of honor, newspaper VG reports. Treholt, a senior foreign ministry official and politician who was convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union and Iraq in 1985, was pardoned in 1992.
Treholt told VG that he would be present at the games as a foreign guest of import for the staging of the Olympics in Greece.
The controversy and coverage surrounding Treholt's trial for espionage is still widely considered the most traumatic post-war case in Norway and his sentence of 20 years was the harshest sentence of its kind in peacetime.
He was pardoned in 1992 and is now a businessman based in Cyprus.
Via Aftenposten News in English.
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