Abstract This article explores how 13 mainstream newspapers in five countries (Norway, Sweden, BRD, DDR and UK) covered the first week of three high-profile spy affairs in the late Cold War: Arne Treholt (Norway), Geoffrey Prime (UK) and Günter Guillaume (BRD). The Eastern European newspapers followed in their governments’ footsteps and prolonged the politics of silence. In the West, newspapers framed the espionage using an issue-specific cultural frame, the traitor. Stories are spiced up by irrelevant and false facts, inspired by the spy stories in the fiction media. The traitor frame is constructed in two variations: the single spy betraying his country and the government forsaking its people by being “soft on the Soviets” or “careless about security”. The study indicates no significant differences in coverage between the four Western countries or between the three espionage affairs.

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中介间谍

摘要本文探讨了五个国家（挪威，瑞典，BRD，DDR和英国）的13家主流报纸如何报道冷战后期三场备受瞩目的间谍事务的第一周：阿恩·特雷霍特（挪威），杰弗里·普里姆（英国）和GünterGuillaume（BRD）。东欧报纸追随各国政府的脚步，并延长了沉默政治。在西方，报纸使用针对特定问题的文化框架叛徒来构筑间谍活动。小说中虚构的间谍故事激发了无关紧要的虚假事实，使故事更加生动。叛徒框架有两种变体：单身间谍背叛了他的国家和政府通过“对苏维埃软弱”或“对安全漠不关心”而放弃了人民。