Erik Strand, 04.07.2026
Several people, myself included, have given witness reports on stalking, threaths and provocations in Norway. Kjetil Tveit has written a lot of articles and commentaries that are unpopular among the Norwegian elite of power. In this tweet, he makes the point that when elite of power groups want to weaken a movement, the most effective way is not arguing against it, but to push it into its most extreme and parodic version. In this context he shares an experience of his. Tveit writes:
“An agent provocateur infiltrates a political movement. Instead of slowing down the movement, the agent begins to exaggerate its goals and methods. They propose more extreme rhetoric, vandalism, or absurd demands (e.g., that men should be allowed to participate in women’s sports or occupy women’s locker rooms).
The result is that it scares away moderate supporters, ruins the movement’s public reputation, and makes it easy for the authorities to crush them.
I HAVE EXPERIENCED IT MYSELF
I have experienced this myself. When I was in Oslo for the anniversary of “Snakk med Silje” [Talk with Silje} this spring, I took the train from Oslo to Stavanger.
I was sitting in the cafeteria wagon when a woman came up and asked if I could help charge her phone. I could, and the conversation started.
She spoke English, said she was from Italy and her name was Maria.
We talked about politics, and agreed on most things. I was very impressed that an Italian woman was so on the ball with exactly the same issues that I write about.
She eventually became very enthusiastic and said that “we” must learn from the Italian temperament, go out into the streets, and she even said that “we” must get weapons.
I replied that I use peaceful methods and awareness-raising work, while she insisted that this has no effect whatsoever.
We chatted the entire train ride, but after a couple of hours a guy who knew her from school came by and revealed that she was Norwegian, so the rest of the trip was in our common mother tongue.
Due to a lot of red flags that I won’t go into here, I finally said as politely as I could that I suspected she was a PST infiltrator. She got a little flustered, took a break and finally whispered to me: “I need the money”.
I can’t be 100% sure even if she admitted it, but if so, this is completely common infiltration everywhere in the world.
It’s also possible that she represents someone other than PST, but since I had first suggested PST, she might as well let me believe it.
In any case, it was, via fictitious Italian temperament, an obvious attempt to make me extreme, or to test whether I was.”
Fampo 