Video - CIA & Swedish Military - Conspire to Bring Down Elected Swedish Prime Minister

CIA & Swedish Military Conspire to Bring Down Elected Swedish Prime Minister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Vc8CcH8ZY&feature=youtu.be CIA & Swedish Military Conspire to Bring Down Elected Swedish Prime Minister TRANSCRIPT [confirm video for quotations] Narrator: In 1989 the Soviet empire started to collapse. A historic victory. It could be that the Secret Committee of US President Ronald Reagan contributed to it. Herb Mayer, CIA vice-chief of intelligence: They stopped playing defence and began playing offence. That was the great shift that changed the course of world history. Thomas Reed Special Question Advisor: We could have brought them to their knees if we wanted. Narrator: Did the Committee in fact exist? What methods did Reagan's soldiers use? John Lehman, the Minister of the US Navy: The use of deception could make it appear to the soviets to be 20 feet tall. Admiral James 'Ace' Lyons: You have to go out and physically demonstrate. Narrator: For the first time, witnesses tell of those events. Mathias Mossberg, the Secretary General for the 34d Submarine Investigation Board: They made fools of the Swedish parliament and government as well as Swedish media. What world do we actually live in? Screen display: Deception: Reagan's Method: A film by Dirk Polmann Submarines against Olof Palme Narrator: The next target is supposed neutral state of the North of Europe, Sweden. Only the Baltic Sea separates it from the Soviet Union. Ula Tuander Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik / Research professor of security policy: Sweden actually was extremely important in case of a future world war. Sweden was located northward of Germany and was kind of an unsinkable aircraft-carrier that the US could operate from. Narrator: Since 1960 Sweden had been integrated into the plans of NATO militarisation. In the 1960s, Swedish Air Forces ranked 4th strongest in the world. The US Army counted on Sweden's secret loyalty to NATO. Ula Tuander Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik / Research professor of security policy: Since 1960, Sweden was preparing to receive US aircraft on its territory. There was a direct phone line with the headquarters of the US Navy in Wiesbaden. Ingemar Engman: We prepared airfields, on which the American jet planes could have landed on their way eastwards. Narrator: The USA needed Sweden as an 'aircraft-carrier.' And besides, the Soviet Union would be forced to fight on two fronts. There's an extremely conservative elite in the Swedish Army, an economy and aristocracy completely aligned with the USA that treats Social Democrats with deep mistrust. Ola Frithiofson Jungsozialisten: In Social Democratic Sweden it was perhaps the most powerful Social Democratic party in the world. Narrator: A charismatic leader, Olof Palme, a man of indisputable international renown. A man who had enemies. Ula Tuander Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik / Research professor of security policy: It was the Social Democratic government of the country. But there were also ruling elites who shared quite different views. They were closely related to the USA and Great Britain. And this meant that you have a divided Sweden. Once I was invited to dinner with James Schlesinger (economist / public servant), the former US Secretary of Defence (1973-1975 Nixon & Ford), and the Director of the CIA. I asked him what he thought of Sweden, at the time he had occupied his position. And he asked me: "What Sweden, the political Sweden or the military Sweden?" Narrator: At the end of the 1960s, beginning of 1970s, the Vietnam War shook up the Western states and deeply divided society. Outraged youth organised demonstrations all over the world. Olof Palme, together with North Vietnamese Ambassador, led demonstrations criticising US policy. The case is exactly one for the Committee. In 1981 Palme is still the opposition leader. But a year later he wins the elections and has brilliant ratings. Palme's and Reagan's plans are as much like fire and water. However, the Committee can use the preliminary work for the CIA. Since the 1970s, the US secret service had been scheming against Palme on Swedish territory. Reagan and Casey knew: Palme is considered to be a traitor among Swedish security agencies. Besides, important Swedish admirals are on their side. John F. Lehman Jr American investment banker & writer Served as Secretary of US Navy in Reagan Administration 1981 - 1987 Member of 9/11 Commission 2003 - 2004: Certainly, there were efforts to see that that Swedish military addressed the demands of NATO strategies and ideas, and that Sweden had access to technologies needed to defend their neutrality. Narrator: On the morning of October 28th, 1981, the Chief of Swedish Naval Staff in Karlskrona receives an unexpected report: fisherman found a submarine washed ashore. Commander Karl Andersson immediately heads there. Karl Andersson: As soon as we called in at the Gåsefjärden I slowed down and, suddenly, I saw a black and green Whiskey-class submarine 100 metres in front of me. It was obviously a Russian submarine. Narrator: The highest rank aboard was the Chief of Brigade Staff from the City of Baltiysk, Joseph Avrukevich. He had navigated the submarine along quite a narrow fjord. The commander, Peter Gushchin, was forced to follow Avrukevich's instructions. Karl Andersson: I could never understand what kind of commander he was or what the operation was meant to be. I actually didn't even think of that because it was incredibly stupid to call in at the Gåsefjärden since a submarine could run aground. Narrator: The submarien had been drifting for a long time until Avrukevich, guided by a beacon, steered the submarine into the fairway of the just 100-metre wide Gåsefjärden. Karl Andersson: They could hire a fishing boat under the guise of a Swedish flag for that purpose. But it was a very stupid decision to call in there with a submarine. The public will discover: the submarine was sent to spy in a fjord that it couldn't submerge into since there was 1.5 metres of water under the keel. Anderson notes that the person who was responsible for making decisions was the mysterious chief of Staff Arukevich. He then received an order not to interrogate him. Karl Andersson: Yes, I received this exact order. I received orders to interrogate Gushchin only, the watch officer, the signaller and the navigator. I was prohibited from interrogating anyone else. Narrator: The Swedish Naval Forces sent a diver under water. Their footage is being officially shown here for the first time ever. They make a startling discovery. A big sand dune formed behind the marine propeller. Ula Tuander Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik / Research professor of security policy: In front of the propeller there was no sand dune. That meant someone wanted the submarine to run further against the rocks, to stay there. And then it was turned around more than 50 degrees so the submarine would really get stuck in the rocks, so it wouldn't slide off. Narrator: To sum up: a supposed spy submarine put into the extremely narrow fjord where there's almost no water under the keen and will sooner or later run aground. When it happened, the engines continued to work at full capacity. But one mustn't interrogate the officer responsible for this insane operation. "Whiskey on the Rocks" hit the headlines. Sweden is shocked and indignant. Olof Palme wins the elections in 1982. He wants to achieve neutrality, disarmament and non-alignment to the military blocs for Sweden. Confrontation mitigation; but Reagan just wanted the opposite. Therefore the 'Deception Committee' begins a project launching an operation of psychological warfare: a pretence of reality that should return Sweden back on the course that corresponds to the Reagan strategy. Two weeks after Palme took office, a submarine's periscope was detected at a Swedish naval base: Musko. It could be -- and everyone claimed they were only Soviet submarines after 'Whiskey on the Rocks'. Ula Tuander Forschungsprofessor für Sicherheitspolitik / Research professor of security policy: They showed their periscopes and cone towers to the public. A submarine's captain shouldn't do that. Mathias Mossberg: Why did they want to be seen? To turn the trick. And they did that very well. Narrator: A few hours after the submarines had been detected, more than 750 journalists from all over the world report on the Swedish Naval Forces with arms ready in manhunt for the soviet submarines, without success. Is it just pretence for the media? In the following years, the hunt for submarines repeats hundreds of times. Foreign submarines are seen in front of the Royal Palace and in front of summerhouses and naval bases. While Palme negotiates with the Soviets on disarmament and proposals of peace, Soviet military forces apparently pretend to want it. Moscow is confused. No one has given such orders to their military. Or are there self-ruling captains? Palme protests to the Soviet Ambassador again and again. In the end, the latter passes a proposal from the Kremlin. Boris Pankin, the Soviet Ambassador to Sweden: If you think our submarines are there, you can bomb them. But we know there are none, that's why we are not afraid of any bombing. Narrator: Endless, unsuccessful war against the ghost submarines has its consequences. Ulf Svenson Director of Security Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs: It was impossible for Palme to do anything else than to decisively blame the Russians. It was difficult to ensure the policy of 'common security' in relation to the communist states. The leaders of the Swedish naval forces sunk not a single enemy submarine, but it successfully torpedoed Palme's 'common security' policy. Without the Swedish media, this operation would fail. Mathias Mossberg: The media were very much taking a lead in blowing up this issue according to the information they got from our militaries. Narrator: From 1981 to 1983 the number of Swedes who felt there was a Soviet threat increased from 27% to 83%. Boris Pankin, the Soviet Ambassador to Sweden: I would like to mention why it bothers me now. It turned out that even in such an educated, Western European state, in such a bulwark of democracy, it was quite easy to distract vast masses of people and brainwash them, to zombify them. Narrator: Since 1983, three investigations into the submarines scam were carried out. Mathias Mossberg: The first inquiry came to the conclusion that it was Soviet submarines. The second concluded that this could not be proven. Then a few years went by and an interview came out with Caspar Weinberger, the US Secretary of Defence, who clearly said that the US was involved in this. Caspar Weinberger, US Secretary of Defence: There was no direct insertion or testing of Swedish defence without consultation, when speaking of the agreement. Keith Speed British Navy Minister: There were exercise attacks. Could the submarines infiltrate their waters and emerge at the port in Stockholm? Well, that's not quite the thing, but something like that. How far could we go? During my administration, we had Oberon-class and Porpoise-class diesel submarines for that purpose. Narrator: It's quite clear: Swedish Naval Forces' leadership knew NATO's submarines were in Swedish territorial waters. Why had they kept silent back then? And what part had the Americans and British played? Mathias Mossberg: Obviously, we needed to go into the question again. They instituted a new inquiry and appointed me as Secretary General. Mossberg found a document in the Muskö naval base archives. Several senior admirals were worried about Weinberger's statement and wanted to be prepared. Mathias Mossberg: To the effect we had to coordinate our response to this. I wanted to take a copy of this document. but our military expert told us: "You don't need to do that. We have this at the office in Stockholm." I believed him. When I came back to our office, it turned out we didn't have this document at all. And next time we went back to that archive, that particular document had disappeared. So these were the kinds of things we had to fight with. Narrator: The board faced resistance: access to the archives was denied and it discovered the military destroyed important evidence, photos and documents. Mathias Mossberg: What we were dealing with was a certain group that was not telling the government the full truth about what they knew or had happened or was happening. And they were taking decisions which had far-reaching implications for Swedish defence and foreign policy. They were decisions that were taken outside the democratic framework of the Swedish government. Then, of course, you ask yourself where you are. Narrator: In a country where the military conspired with a foreign power against its own Minister-President? Mathias Mossberg: Sweden was taken for a ride. Public opinion was taken for a ride, Swedish parliament was taken for a ride, Swedish government was taken for a ride, the press was taken for a ride. What sort of world are we actually living in? Narrator: In a world where Olof Palme was murdered. The killer hasn't been found yet. Mikhail Gorbachev, President of USSR: I'm sure it was a political killing. It was a contract killing ... I don't think he was murdered for some domestic reasons ... Interviewer: Why do you think it was a political killing? Mikhail Gorbachev, President of USSR: Because this man and the things he was proposing ... Their implementation involved the interests of groups who weren't particularly interested in making the world a better place. Subtitles by amara.org community -- 17:01 end  -- SOURCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4Vc8CcH8ZY&feature=youtu.be ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Miscellaneous Look-Ups: Mathias Mossberg Sweden's Ambassador to Morocco - 1994 to 1996 Involved in Middle East peace negotiations since the 1980s Swedish team re back-channel negotiations re Oslo peace process Senior Research Fellow at Lund university's Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Sweden Editor of: 'One Land, Two States: Israel & Palestine as Parallel States (University of California Press, 2014) Previously Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Stockholm adviser re Muslim affairs. Previously secondment to East West Institute in New York Previously Secretary-General for major Sweden government review of Swedish security policy during cold war was Director of Policy Planning Group of Ministry 1996-2000 CSCE Personal Representative of Chairman for Nagorno-Karabakh 1992 - 1994. Previously Assistant Under-Secretary for Africa & Middle East at the Ministry Held diplomatic posts in London, Aman, New York, Moscow & Geneva. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mathias-mossberg/ John F. Lehman Jr American investment banker & writer 1977 Lehman founded the Abington Corporation, a consulting company with clients including defence companies such as Northrop Corporation was president & director to 1981 Served as Secretary of US Navy in Reagan Administration 1981 - 1987 Member of 9/11 Commission 2003 - 2004: National Security Advisory Council for the Centre for Security Policy (CSP) board of trustees for the think tank Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) {"New York Times (NYT 1967:1, 32) revealed that FPRI had been funded directly by the CIA since the fifties." http://www.leopoldreport.com/LRsajt81.html} member National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States signed policy letters by: Project for the New American Century served as an advisor to Sen. John McCain for the 2008 presidential bid served as an advisor to Mitt Romney - 2012 presidential bid developed a strategic concept to counter threat of Soviet incursion into Western Europe known as the "Lehman Doctrine" plan called for a military response to any Russian invasion in Europe by attacking and invading the Soviet Far East along the Pacific (less defended front) chairman of the private equity investment firm J. F. Lehman and Company from 2004 / involved in other interests & NGOs - listed Revealed: Reagan admin secretly offered use of amphibious assault helicopter carrier to British re 1982 Falklands War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lehman Senior US military officer critical of Lehman Lehman once rowed for Cambridge in Britain http://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/30/us/navy-chief-says-lehman-was-not-balanced.html Keith Speed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Speed Caspar W. Weinberger Caspar Willard Weinberger b. 1917 father Jewish (Bohemia, now: Czech Republic) met wife: Jane (Rebecca Jane Dalton Weinberger), nurse on troops ship transporting US troops to Australia during WWII married in 1942 in Sydney, Australia Harvard, law Army officers' candidate school at Fort Benning, Ga. / intelligence staff of Gen. Douglas MacArthur private law practice 1952 politics: California Assembly + re-elections held high positions under three Republican Presidents oversaw largest & costliest military build-up in peacetime history as Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Defence had written a regular column for Forbes magazine to his death 2006, was chairman of Forbes Inc. key backer of President Ronald Reagan's missile-based Strategic Defence Initiative ('Star Wars') enemy of the Soviet Union more faith in arms than diplomacy role in the Iran-contra affair / granted presidential pardon - questions left unresolved 1992 - indicted on felony charges of perjury and obstruction of justice re covert sale of arms to Iran & diversion of proceeds to Nicaraguan rebels ('contras') k.a. 'Iran-Contra Affair' / against declared US policy accused of concealing voluminous notes re Iran-Contra Affair roles of Reagan & VP George Bush 1992 President Bush pardoning Weinberger + several other officials re Iran-Contra Affair under Weinberger, Pentagon: -- understated cost of some weapons by billions of dollars -- overstated effectiveness of weapons -- exaggerated the threat of the Soviet Union {General Accounting Office 3-year study, 1993} http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/28/obituaries/28cnd-weinberger.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 http://bangordailynews.com/2009/07/13/news/caspar-weinbergerrsquos-widow-a-milford-native-dies-at-age-91/ Karlskrona https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlskrona Gåsefjärden http://archive.is/D5VRL http://research.omicsgroup.org/index.php/Soviet_submarine_S-363 Professional American Disinformation Agents Sabotaged the Investigation into the Murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme http://www.leopoldreport.com/LRsajt71.html#ankare449926 Sweden's American Colony Nya Sverige New Sweden 1638 to 1655 - Swedish Colony in present-day: Delaware, New Jersey, & Pennsylvania first settlement: Fort Christina (now Wilmington, Delaware) other settlers: Finns & Dutch 1655 - Second Northern War - Dutch take New Sweden (incorporated into New Netherland) mid 1600s - Sweden was at most expansive territorial extent / was one of great powers of Europe -- territories incl. FINLAND, ESTONIA, parts RUSSIA, POLAND, GERMANY, LATVIA -- monarchs: Gustavus Adolphus & Queen Christina -- Swedes aimed to create tobacco & fur trading colony -- founded: Swedish West India Company -- mandate to establish trading colonies Florida & Newfoundland -- stockholders: Swedish, Dutch & German -- led by directors of New Sweden Company, incl. Samuel Blommaert -- 11 expeditions / 14 separate voyages to Delaware -- 1637 - port of Gothenburg - first Swedish expedition sails -- Indian tribes sold only small portion land / claim Swedes stole rest -- Second Northern War in the Baltic opened by Sweden -- Sweden vs. Polish-Lithuanian C'wealth -- Dutch grabbed New Sweden Colony 1655 -- Dutch then dispossessed by the British in 1664 -- [ skip ] -- major Swedish immigration took place only in late 19th C: 1870-1917 - 1.2 million Swedes arrived (Minnesota +) [source:  Wikipedia] ---------------------- ---------------------- COMMENT Found this interesting. No time to comb over this entry for typos, or to finish the look-ups I wanted to do. It looks like our world is controlled by psychopaths.  There are no rules.  Money is god and power is king.  Or something like that. Anyway, I thought all these ties (US, UK, Sweden ... and even Australia, in a round-about way, etc) ... & all this grubbiness was really interesting. Good luck getting justice in America, Britain or in Sweden, especially if you expose American and government wrongdoing. Note that Australian publisher-journalist, Julian Assange, is political prisoner of these same bent interests. We're all political prisoners and de facto prisoners of state, as our well-being and the future of our nations is sacrificed to the money-serving plans of a colluding coterie of states serving money-hungry and money-controlling elites, while pretending 'democracy' and righteousness.  Some things never change.   History is a constant.