Hans Olav Østgaard (born 13 October 1944) is a Norwegian jurist. He was born in

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, and graduated with the

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degree in 1969. He was hired in the

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in 1970, and was promoted to deputy under-secretary of state in 1982. In 1993 he was appointed as director of the Norwegian Police Surveillance Agency. He was pressured to resign in 1996, as the

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found it unacceptable that

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had been surveilled while sitting on the

Lund Commission The Lund Report (Official title: "Dokument nr. 15 (1995-96) - Rapport til Stortinget fra kommisjonen som ble nedsatt av Stortinget for å granske påstander om ulovlig overvåking av norske borgere", in English: "Document no. 15 (1995-96) - Repor ...

. Østgaard instead became assistant to the permanent under-secretary of state in the Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1997.

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