Rød-Larsen’s Secret Briefings
Norway’s newly opened peace archive reveals the calculations behind a diplomatic breakthrough, with one memorandum exposing a striking difference in who was informed.
A telephone at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo connected American officials to one of the world’s most closely guarded peace initiatives. Norwegian negotiators used it to brief Washington while talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) remained secret.
That arrangement appears in a memorandum written by Norwegian peace facilitator Ter…
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