Baard Wormdal is an investigative journalist and non-fiction author. He has worked on intelligence for more than 25 years. His main subject is Norwegian–American intelligence activity concerning Russian nuclear submarines in the Arctic, which he describes as the greatest Russian threat to the United States. He trained at the Norwegian School of Journalism, worked at the newspapers Dagbladet and VG, and was a journalist at NRK from 1988 to 2023, most of that time in Finnmark. He lived in Vadsø, on the border with Russia, for more than 30 years, and now lives in Trondheim.
About Baard Wormdal
In 2005 he made the Brennpunkt documentary «Pentagon's Eye?» for NRK. Since then he has written three books on the secret intelligence cooperation between Norway and the United States: The Satellite War (2011), Stalking the Bear (2015) and The Spy War (2023). The Spy War has been raised in the Norwegian Parliament several times. In 2024 he received the Norwegian Press Association's Transparency Award for the three books.
Timeline
- 1988Joins NRK
- 2005The Brennpunkt documentary «Pentagon's Eye?»
- 2008First recipient of the Tore Sandberg SKUP grant
- 2011Satellittkrigen / The Satellite War (Pax)
- 2015Spionbasen / Stalking the Bear (Pax)
- 2017Assists The New York Times with research for a report from Vardø
- 2023Spionkrigen / The Spy War (Aschehoug). Leaves NRK after 35 years
- 2024The Norwegian Press Association's Transparency Award
Watch a shortened English version of his documentary on the Globus radar in Vardø