[1] On 3 September 1995, the newspaper Dagbladet published photos of Hedstrøm holding a speech about immigration at an allegedly[2][3] secret meeting at the movie theatre Godlia kino in Oslo.
The journalists who had investigated the meeting were Arne O. Holm, Cato Vogt-Kielland and Thor Gjermund Eriksen.
It also reached surface that other politicians from the Progress Party, such as Deputy Chairman Vidar Kleppe, and Member of Parliament Fridtjof Frank Gundersen had also attended meetings hosted by the Norwegian Association.
[4] It also became known that the leader of the Norwegian Association, Torfinn Hellandsvik, had been the premise supplier for a parliamentary document about immigration that Hedstrøm had prepared.
[6] The attention around this case, together with focus on immigration, resulted in a markedly increased support for the Progress Party in the 1995 local elections.