Rød-Larsen-dokumenter hentet – «Arkivsaken» fortsetter

Norwegian authorities have recovered documents from the basement of Terje Rød-Larsen, a key figure in the Oslo Accords, as part of an investigation into missing archival material related to the historic peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The recovery of these documents, some of which are classified, marks a significant development in a decades-long search for records that vanished from government archives over 30 years ago.

The National Archives and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs retrieved the documents on Saturday, March 15, 2026, in coordination with all parties involved, according to Kjetil Korslien of the National Archives. The documents are now at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for review.

Korslien declined to disclose the quantity of documents recovered or their specific contents, or to comment on their condition. “We are experiencing smooth cooperation with the parties, and everyone shares the same intentions,” he said.

The search for the missing documents began after Økokrim, Norway’s economic crime unit, seized documents from Rød-Larsen’s home in February as part of a corruption investigation. Økokrim had previously recovered classified documents from the property.

Authorities had not ruled out the possibility of finding additional documents related to the Oslo process at Rød-Larsen and Juul’s Frogner apartment.

The National Archives is also in contact with the Israeli State Archives, which will produce declassified documents available.

Missing for 33 Years

Terje Rød-Larsen and his wife, Mona Juul, are widely regarded as the architects of the Oslo Accords, the first political agreement between the Palestinian PLO and Israel, reached in the 1990s. The initial discovery that documents were missing from the Foreign Ministry’s archives was made by researcher Hilde Henriksen Waage, who was commissioned by the ministry to write about the Oslo process.

“It feels good today to have been right all along, and it feels good that all of Norway has now seen that what I said back then was absolutely correct,” Waage said.

“I have known that what I have said has been absolutely correct, and true. But I have been thoroughly suspected and attacked for my findings and interpretations of the reasons for both what Norway had done and why the documents were missing. All of What we have is now discredited,” Waage said.

In 2006, the National Archives and the Foreign Ministry began efforts to locate the missing documents. Juul told the ministry at the time that she had no “official records.”

Terje Rød-Larsen was contacted by the National Archivist, because he was not employed by the UD at the time the Oslo process took place. Rød-Larsen was, yet, paid by the UD through Fafo, according to Klassekampen.

He responded at the time that he had an extensive private archive, which he did not want to share with what is now the National Archives. This applied to later inquiries from the National Archives as well.

Rød-Larsen’s lawyer, John Christian Elden, told NRK that it was not novel that his client had his own documents in the case.

“For the past 20 years, Rød-Larsen has said that he has his own documents in the case, as he participated as a Fafo leader and not a public employee. This should therefore not come as a surprise,” he said, adding: “Waage should not expect to find support for her predetermined conclusion that Norway was on Israel’s side in the discussions. The Foreign Minister determined as early as 2006 that they did not need Rød-Larsen’s documents, and that the UD had its own. This may also be because the entire Oslo channel was not an official Norwegian project.”

Waage: Will Request Access

Waage has announced that she will seek access to the documents.

“I will seek access when this has calmed down, in order to complete the assignment I was given by the UD at the time,” she said.

She also has a message for the ministry:

“Welcome to it. I proved 20 years ago that the documents that were missing were probably with the couple,” she said.

The National Archives wrote in a recent assessment that You’ll see probably documents in Rød-Larsen’s “private archive” that should have been with the UD. They cannot say this with certainty before the documents are reviewed.

Juul and Rød-Larsen were charged in February with gross corruption and complicity in this, based on their contact with Jeffrey Epstein. Both deny criminal guilt.

NSM is in contact with the UD regarding the documents, while PST is considering launching an investigation for violations of security legislation.

Published March 16, 2026, at 1:02 PM Updated March 16, 2026, at 5:09 PM