Bjørn Hallstrøm
Bjørn Hallstrøm is a Norwegian marketing manager, TV producer, and self-proclaimed former CIA agent. In a 2025 documentary by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation called Agenten, Hallstrøm says that he worked for the agency in the 1980s and 1990s. He claims that the CIA tasked him with infiltrating networks in Afghanistan, Colombia, Cuba, Kuwait, and Libya – while using journalism as a cover. He also claims that the agency funded numerous documentaries and segments which he produced and sold to TV stations in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. An investigation by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation found around a dozen instances where Nordic channels aired Hallstrøm’s material between 1987 and 1993. In late 2024, the FBI released 11 pages about Hallstrøm in response to my records request earlier in the year. While the documents do not mention Hallstrøm’s work for the CIA, they confirm his story about being investigated by the FBI in 1996 for fraud against the U.S. government. The government declined to prosecute him, though Hallstrøm says the incident prompted the CIA to cut all ties with him. In Agenten, Hallstrøm says that he then worked for Mossad for a couple of years, before helping MI6 infiltrate networks in Iran and Iraq for over a decade. Hallstrøm shares a lot of material that he says shows he worked for the CIA – including email exchanges with his supposed handlers – but has little to show from Mossad and MI6. The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed a number of family members, journalists, and individuals that Hallstrøm featured in his own work, many of whom were unaware of his alleged spy connections. None of the agencies responded to requests for comment.