Arne Johannes Myrdal (2 November 1935 – 8 August 2007) was a Norwegian local politician and later a convicted anti-immigration activist.
The book was published in 1981 and became a best-seller, but received widespread criticism because Myrdal had filled it with possibly libelous private content.
[2][13][14] When he held a meeting in Tønsberg in June of the same year, he and other FMI members were chased away by Blitz movement and SOS Rasisme activists.
[2] As Myrdal wanted "more action and less talk", he went on to form his own group Norge Mot Innvandring (Norway Against Immigration, NMI).
[20] In June 1992, Myrdal stated in the newspaper Verdens Gang that he had been in contacts with representatives for the Swedish White Aryan Resistance.
Myrdal was later convicted to one year imprisonment for planning to bomb the Hove asylum centre, which was still unfinished and in the building process.
[2][25] The contacts with the police had been initiated by Klassekampen journalist Finn Sjue, and Krømcke later confirmed in an interview with the same newspaper that he had joined the FMI with the single purpose of working against the organisation.
Myrdal later claimed that it was Krømcke who had brought up the idea of taking action against the asylum centre, that the whole incident thus was a set-up, and that he himself in addition had been under the influence of alcohol the night they met.