Christian "C. C." Christensen (15 March 1922 – 5 November 1994) was a Norwegian military intelligence officer and newspaper editor. He was born in

Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...

, grew up in

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, took his

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in 1942 and commerce school in 1943. The same year he had to flee to Sweden because of resistance work during the ongoing

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. He worked at the

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. From 1945 to 1955 he worked in the

Norwegian Intelligence Service The Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) or Etterretningstjenesten (E-tjenesten) is a Norwegian military intelligence agency under the Chief of Defence and the Ministry of Defence. History Olav Njølstad says that the "stay-behind cooperation ...

. He advanced from second lieutenant to major during this time. In 1948 he married Tulla Traheim (1922–1989). From 1956 Christensen was organizational manager of the libertarian organization

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. In 1963 he left to become editor-in-chief of ''

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'', which he left in 1982. He was never uncontroversial as an editor. He was hired due to connections between ''Morgenbladet'' and Libertas, and in 1983 Libertas bought the newspaper. In 1993, however, ''Morgenbladet'' was completely reshaped. Christensen also chaired the local branch of the

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. He issued several books, mostly relating to his old job as an intelligence officer. He died in November 1994 in Oslo.

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1922 births 1994 deaths Writers from Bærum Norwegian military personnel Norwegian resistance members Norwegian expatriates in Sweden Norwegian newspaper editors 20th-century Norwegian writers Morgenbladet people {{Norway-writer-stub