Haakon Bingen (22 September 1918 – 16 March 2002) was a Norwegian economist and civil servant.
degree in 1946, studied briefly at Harvard University before being hired in the International Monetary Fund.
[4] From 1 June 1950 to 1 September 1988 he worked as the secretary for the Standing Committee on Finance and Economic Affairs in the Parliament of Norway.
He sued the academics Trond Bergh and Knut Einar Eriksen as well as the publishing house Cappelen Akademiske Forlag, because the second volume of the work Den hemmelige krigen (The secret war) contained information that portrayed Bingen as a close friend of communist Peder Furubotn.
In late 1999, the Supreme Court of Norway found that this was not true, and circulation of the book was forbidden, until the reference to Bingen had been amended; in addition Bingen was awarded 146,975 kr of costs.