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About Øistein Strømnæs
- Øistein Stømnæs (28 June 1914 – 21 July 1980) was the head of XU, the main Norwegian intelligence organization from 1943 to 1945.Strømnæs was born in Sarpsborg in Østfold county, Norway.
- He studied biology at the University of Oslo and was working of his master's degree student in botany when Norway was attacked in 1940.
- To support his studies he also had a part-time job as a police constable, this proved very valuable when he got involved in intelligence. Recruited by one of the founders of XU, Captain Eivind Hjelle, Strømnæs joined XU in August 1940.
- Strømnæs was said to be a "natural agent", and he had a very relaxed tone with his agents.
- Strømnæs assumed the leadship of XU when Arvid Storsveen was killed in April 1943.
- He worked undercover in Oslo until the end of World War II.
- Strømnæs focused on security to the point Defense Command in London, did not know the real identity of the chairman of the intelligence service.After the liberation of Norway Strømnæs received a scholarship and earned his doctor's degree at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Anne-Sofie Østvedt (1920–2009), former vice chairman of the XU also attended college at Berkeley.
- The couple was married in 1946.
- Anne-Sofie Strømnæs received her master's degree in food chemistry at Berkeley.
- They moved home to Norway after completing studies in 1951.
- For many years, Strømnæs was assistant professor and later associate professor of genetics at the University of Oslo.
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