As of 2025, at the age of 101, he still reads five paper newspapers every day.[4]
Career
Intelligence
During the German occupation of Norway Johansen engaged in resistance against the occupants, first by distributing illegal newspapers. In 1943 he was prescribed to forced labour at a Wehrmacht office. Having access to various documents, he smuggled out copies which he delivered to the intelligence organisation XU. From 1944 these included reports on shipments of German troops from harbors in the Oslofjord, until he had to flee to Sveden in 1945.[1]
From 1977 he headed the Norwegian Intelligence Service section D, responsible for special information collecting and analysis. He assumed the position of assisting director in 1992, and retired from the Norwegian Intelligence Service in 1994.[1]
A politician, Johansen was a member of the Labour Party commission for security and foreign policy, and was advisor to central Labour politicians.[6]:243[7]:164