Background
Fougner was born in Halden to Bjørn Fougner and Ragnhild Klaveness.
Fougner was born in Halden to Bjørn Fougner and Ragnhild Klaveness.
He graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1946.
While a student in Trondheim during the German occupation of Norway, Fougner took part in resistance activities for the intelligence organization XU, and for the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS). He operated the SIS wireless station Leporis from 1942 to 1943.