Rolf Andvord

rightRolf Otto Andvord (31 October 1890 – 8 March 1976) was a Norwegian jurist and diplomat.

Biography He was born in Sør-Aurdal Municipality, Norway, as a son of Kristian Andvord (1855–1934), a chief physician, and Ebba Blomstedt (1860–1953). He was a nephew of ship-owner Rolf Andvord. He was married to the banker's daughter Ingrid Anna Kristina Sten from 1930 to 1936. His second daughter Anita married Ulf Ander.

Upon finishing his secondary education in 1909, he enrolled in law studies in 1910 and graduated with a cand.jur. degree in 1915. He thereupon started working for the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1921 he became chargé d'affaires at the Norwegian legation in Copenhagen, and soon after secretary at the Norwegian legation in Paris, and he was also assisting secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and worked at the Norwegian legation in London. From 1935 he served as ambassador to Argentina, He died in March 1976 in Málaga.

As a spy, according to author Alf R. Jacobsen, he would have contributed little additional beyond what KGB knew from other sources. The same writer points argued that Andvord praised Soviet society, and did, not even in retrospect, reflect on the extent of suffering and terror endured by the Russian and Ukrainian peoples under Stalin and his regime, which he served in secrecy. He mentioned in his memoirs how the authorities managed to convey to him a large shipment of Bordeaux wine, via Argentina and Siberia, in a heated wagon so as not to damage it. His most valuable contribution to Soviet intelligence would have been in the post-war years, when he served as under-secretary in the ministry of foreign affairs.