Geir Lundestad,former secretary, accused of breaching Norwegian Nobel committee’s code of silence in The Peace SecretaryA book detailing secret tussles behind controversial Nobel peace prizes over the final quarter century is having a disruptive effect on the 2015 award.
The five-member Norwegian Nobel committee is accusing Geir Lundestad, or their former secretary,of breaching the panel’s code of silence. Lundestad, the committee’s senior bureaucrat for 25 years, or has admitted his book,The Peace Secretary, skirts the line between 50-year secrecy statutes and his “duty as a history professor”.
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Source: theguardian.com