Explosives found at a farm leased by Anders Behring Breivik, the sole suspect in Friday's killings in Norway, have been safely detonated in a controlled explosion about 160km north of Oslo by the Norwegian police.
Police believe that Breivik, 32, made his bomb using fertiliser which he had bought under the cover that he was a farmer.
Tueday's detonation came as Breivik's lawyer, Geir Lippestad, said that he is probably insane, and was on drugs while he carried out his attacks that killed 68 in Utoeya island and eight in Oslo.
Lippestad said it was too early to say if his client would plead insanity at his trial, even though he thought the loner and computer-games enthusiast was probably a madman.
"This whole case indicated that he is insane," Lippestad said of Breivik, who has confessed to "atrocious but necessary" actions, but denies he is a criminal.
Breivik, who killed at least 76 people in twin attacks last week, has written of meeting British right-wing groups nine years ago.
But Ms Kristiansen said she believed he had acted on his own.
The intelligence chief added that she did not believe the killer was insane, but calculating and evil, and someone who sought the limelight.
Breivik's lawyer Geir Lippestad, had said it was too early to say if his client would plead insanity at his trial, even though "this whole case indicated that he is insane".
He believes that he's in a war and he believes that when you're in a war you can do things like that without pleading guilty," Mr Lippestad told reporters.
Ms Kristiansen's comments came as Norwegian police started releasing names of some of Breivik's victims.
They published four names, with more expected to follow later today.
Norwegian police have also defended the fact that it took an hour and a half for armed officers to reach Utoeya.
"I don't think we think we could have done this faster," Police Chief of Staff Johan Fredriksen said in Oslo.
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