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.

Iran | Civilian Aircraft Downed by US 1988 | 290 Killed

[source:  twitter] Caught my attention on Twitter. I'd forgotten about the passenger jet shot down. Not sure who posted it; was too lazy to make a note at the time. Well, too tired & sleepy.  Signed out now.  Can check tomorrow, I guess. I'd like to keep going, but I think I'd better get out of this chair before I have an embolism or something.  lol UPDATE America’s Flight 17 The time the United States blew up a passenger plane—and tried to cover it up. By Fred Kaplan  EXTRACTS ... Iran Air Flight 655—shot down on July 3, 1988, not by some scruffy rebel on contested soil but by a U.S. Navy captain in command of an Aegis-class cruiser called the Vincennes. A quarter-century later, the Vincennes is almost completely forgotten, but it still ranks as the world’s seventh deadliest air disaster (Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is the sixth) and one of the Pentagon’s most inexcusable disgraces. SOURCE  |  here UPDATE Was curious what was happening circa 1988 & here's just a couple of events: 1988 ECHELON surveillance  |  ('Five Eye') Duncan Campbell revealed existence of the ECHELON surveillance program in 1988  / (US-Anglo 'Five Eye' alliance satellite trunk communications sweeping intercepts).  | here South Africa (Eastern Cape) spy cover was blown Olivia Forsyth spy of apartheid era     imprisoned by ANC in Angola     escaped to British Embassy     recruited by 'notorious' Craig Williamson     infiltration of ANC supporters     spying on lefties     defection to ANC     journalist One of the most notorious of the Eastern Cape spies was Agent RS407 Olivia Forsyth - code name "Lara" - who infiltrated activist groups at Rhodes University as a student and sang freedom songs while passing on information to the security police. In 1988 her cover was blown and she was detained and tortured in an ANC prison camp in Angola, from which she escaped.  |  LINK  |  here South Africa government spy organisation links with: 1986 assassination Sweden PM Olof Palme *** key suspect no longer has an alibi for the night in question  *** "Larsson passed police the name of Bertil Wedin, a Swede with links to South African security services, as the man who organised the killing. Wedin, now living in northern Cyprus, denies this and police say he is not a suspect." "Kerstin Sharp, a Swedish prosecutor who has worked on the case since 1997, said earlier this week that Larsson's tip about Wedin was not part of the police investigation." Source | The Guardian |  here ---------------------- ꕤ  ---------------------- Sweden does not follow up on the assassination of their iconic Prime Minister, but Sweden mounts a European Arrest Warrant, Interpol Red Notice, and dramatic London arrest of journalist Julian Assange ... to 'make inquiries' about Sweden police 'allegations' ... that were contradicted by the alleged 'victims.' Think about that for a moment & consider that 5 years down the track, Sweden has refused to interview Julian Assange (granted political asylum) in London, where Sweden has interviewed 44 others in the 2010-2015 period.  Sweden’s double standards on Julian Assange http://www.petertatchellfoundation.org/civil-liberties/sweden-s-double-standards-julian-assange ꕤ

Sweden Turns Blind Eye to: SÄPO Agent Alleged Killer of PM Olof Palme / Meanwhile ... Assange Banged Up In Britain 5 Years, No Charge, Bogus Sweden Police Allegations

SOURCE http://www.svd.se/bertil-wedin-i-am-not-the-murderer Bertil Wedin: ”I am not the murderer” Av Ola Billger 25 feb, 2014 Stieg Larsson gave the police a tip about him [ie Bertil Wedin] and South African agents named [ie Bertil Wedin] after the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme. Still the Swedish investigators have not been able to arrange a formal interview with him in 27 years. The alleged go-between Bertil Wedin is today talking to SvD about the accusations. “After the murder I thought: will I be a suspect?” Constantly under investigation, several times pointed out. But never properly interviewed by the Police. The elegant and nowadays 73 years old Bertil Wedin came to the surface in the Palme inquiry almost immediately after the murder on February 28th interest because of his connections with Security Service of the South African Apartheid regime. Today SvD could reveal that the world-famous crime writer and journalist Stieg Larsson named Bertil Wedin in the autumn of 1987 as a possible go-between in the murder of Palme. Stieg Larsson had come across extensive documentation on Bertil Wedin which he compiled and sent to the Police in a memorandum. His partner Eva Gabrielsson says to SvD that all the time up to his death in 2004 Stieg Larsson had suspicions about Bertil Wedin. Other persons have also pointed at Wedin as a go-between, as the one planting the false trail about Kurdish PKK and for spreading negative propaganda about Palme for a long time after the murder. Since November 1985 he lives in north Cyprus, a nation recognised by nobody and who lacks extradition treaties with everyone. “Well, I disliked Olof Palme quite a lot, but I did not hate him”, he says. SvD is meeting with Bertil Wedin close to his home in Kyrenia. We are sitting in the elegant but slightly worn-down Dome Hotel, the same place where Wedin was interviewed by the world press in 1996 when he and the super spy Craig Williamson were alleged to be involved in the murder of Palme. The waiter is wearing a black tie, worn to a shine, and is chatting in a familiar tone with the guests. A mild breeze is sweeping in from the Mediterranean. Bertil Wedin’s eyes are ice-blue , cold and vigilant. “I have nothing to lose from the truth coming out since i am luckily enough not the murderer and had nothing to do with it all.” In spite of the fact that he has appeared in inquiries for 28 years, no formal interview has ever been conducted by Swedish Police. A telephone call is the closest the investigators have been. “A policeman called in 1996 after I had appeared in the press in connection with South Africa. He was a bit loud and easy-going and talked about a permit. I said ‘you don’t need a permit, just come.’ But they never came.” SvD is talking to him for three days going through Stieg Larsson’s memo page by page. In the document it is stated that Bertil Wedin had been a mercenary, had worked for BOSS, the South African Security Service since the 70’s and for was one of the “top pro killers” in Europe. “All these pieces of information are false…except then one about me living with my wife in Cyprus. OK?” One of the sources says that Wedin is “one of the nastiest persons” he has met in his many years working against right wing extremism. That he was supposed to have murdered several people, among them the anti-Apartheid activist Ruth First, one of Olof Palme’s friends, who was killed by a bomb. “I have heard about the letter bomb, of course, but it was completely unknown to me. And I think it is a terrible thing.” Wedin goes on reading, sniffing at the content and commenting some statements. I am aware of my reputation; right wing man and Conservative, not liking Palme and more, but I have done nothing of all this. “They say ‘no smoke without fire’ but there is nothing in this. I am aware of my reputation; right wing man and Conservative, not liking Palme and more, but I have done nothing of all this. Not a single thing. And no one has asked me to do anything either.” Stieg Larsson was not alone in his suspicions: there were several tips directly after the murder and ten years later South African security agents pointed a finger at Wedin as involved in the murder. Bertil Wedin left Sweden in 1975 and moved to Great Britain. He worked among other things as a journalist but was also paid by the South African Security Service. He was charged, accused of breaking into the office of an anti-Apartheid movement in London, but was later acquitted. Three months ahead of the murder of Olof Palme he moved with his family to northern Cyprus. “I wanted to lead another life. Many people I know in this sphere have sooner or later grown tired of it, wanted to do something else.” He says that he tried several times to give Swedish authorities a tip on who was behind the murder. He contacted embassies and the Palme inquiry, but nobody wanted to receive his information. “I had names that I believed were the [gunmen] or the name of the Master Mind”, Bertil Wedin says. However he does not want to disclose those names today. In the memo from Stieg Larsson it is stated that Bertil Wedin went to South Africa in February 1986, shortly before the murder of Olof Palme. Were you in South Africa at the time? “I was not.” He says he was in Cyprus when he heard the news from the BBC World Service on March 1st. “Later I thought: will I be a suspect?” The reason was that he was “a little anti-Palme”. Today, 28 years on, he is no longer particularly interested in talking to the Police, neither to offer tips, nor to straighten out question marks. “I would prefer not to. But I would consider it, of course, but it seems so meaningless. SOURCE http://www.svd.se/bertil-wedin-i-am-not-the-murderer --------------------- COMMENT Came across this Swedish Sapo agent, South African apartheid government spy fellow, Bertil Wedin, when I ran into an article about about star South African spy recruit / alleged NCA defector Olivia Forsyth (mentioned below). So, if I have this straight, there's a Swedish fellow (Bertil Wedin), that's been linked to a notorious South African spymaster (Craig Williamson), whose South African government spy outfit was involved in violent acts of terrorism; and this Swedish guy's been fingered by a renown Swedish crime writer and journalist (Stieg Larsson), as allegedly having been involved in the assassination of Olof Palme (Swedish Prime Minister); and this Bertil Wedin guy has also been implicated as party to the crime of assassination by members of the South African government spying outfit. Yet Wedin, alleged mercenary, South African spy and alleged party to the assassination of a Swedish national icon, has never been formally interviewed by Swedish police. Odd, one would think, particularly given Sweden's zeal in conducting the international legal assault on WikiLeaks' publisher, Julian Assange, the subject of Swedish police allegations of 'sexual misconduct'. Since 1985, Wedin has retreated to the delights of Greek island life (where nobody has an extradition treaty with the unrecognised, North Cyprus, self-declared state). All that lovely Greek island sunshine would at least be a rather therapeutic consolation, when enduring something like 27 years of repeat investigations into one's tangled affairs. Except in Sweden. Sweden's not interested. That's the same sunshine that publisher/journalist Julian Assange, has now been deprived of for 3 years under siege at the Ecuador Embassy in London, pinned in place by Sweden's political and legal manoeuvres and Sweden's inaction.  Inaction seems bizarre at first - but it makes perfect and rather perverse sense, when you consider that inaction has been Sweden's legal and political strategy for blockading Assange in place for almost a 5 years stretch now, pending delivering him up to the US superpower by extradition. Detaining a journalist for 5 years pursuant to flimsy police allegations, with aid of a rubber-stamp European Arrest Warrant, is becoming internationally embarrassing and difficult to explain away. Just when you think there couldn't be anything more humiliating for Swedish justice (and the Swedish 'humanitarian' state) to explain, than nearly 5 years of Sweden doing its utmost to contravene international law (and, inexplicably, even basic, common sense), by blocking the passage of an individual granted political asylum (via the inaction / stalemate MO, by refusing to interview), we find yet more embarrassing, dirt under Sweden's jolly Ikea rug, just begging to be explained. More Swedish government dirt in the story of a Swedish Greek island expatriate, who has gone some 27 years - yes, folks, that's 27 years - without so much as a formal police interview, having been accused of being involved in the killing of a Swedish Prime Minister.  And accused by some of being the shooter. So, ... I take it we can't expect an international arrest warrant on the pretext of some kind any time soon, for immediate apprehension of a Sapo agent, foreign government spy, alleged mercenary, and an alleged assassin of Sweden's much-loved Prime Minister?  Don't suppose there'll be a Sapo or CIA kidnapping either? Yet, at breakneck speed in 2010, during the bombshell WikiLeaks publication of US secrets, Sweden obtained a European Arrest Warrant and Interpol Red Notice for Assange, on the strength of what sure sounds like nothing but, remarkably convenient, Swedish police allegations of 'sexual misconduct.' And before you could say 'Abba', Julian Assange was banged up in Britain - and has been since: for around 2 years under house arrest pursuant to a European Arrest Warrant; for 3 years under siege in the Ecuadorian Embassy; for about a total of 5 years effective detention without charge or interview; on trumped up police allegations of 'sexual misconduct', based on what amounts to 'alleged interviews' that weren't even properly carried out or properly recorded by Swedish law enforcement authorities. Meanwhile, an obliging UK (which has made a legal exception of Assange) has now incurred a cost of £11,884,830.00 British pounds (and counting). The British government's payrolled police-enforcer, brute footsoldiers, stand guard inside and outside the Ecuadorian Embassy, London, where Julian Assange has sought (and was granted) political asylum, in view of (a) political persecution and (b) threat to his life should he be apprehended and extradited to USA, by way of an extradition to Sweden. Please, remind me again what this is about?  'Sexual misconduct?'  Condoms? The UK crown prosecution service has also refused a request under the Freedom of Information Act in relation to communications over potential extradition arrangements, stating that it would affect Great Britain’s diplomatic relations with other countries. In the middle of last year, the UK’s extradition reform panel, which was appointed by the home secretary, met with Eric Holder, the US attorney general, and a number of members of the Defence Department in the United States. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/03/jass-m16.html The facts surrounding this legal and political assault on Assange and on WikiLeaks, and a number of suspicious violations, irregularities, and anomalies in the Swedish police investigation and government handling of such assault on publisher Assange speak for themselves. Yet, Sweden, the US and UK, would have you believe, it's 'nothing' at all to do with the release of: the Collateral Murder video on 5th April 2010 (depicting US war crimes); or the release of the Afghan War Logs: 2004-2010 (comprising 91,000 US reports), on 25 July 2010); and, really - no really - nothing at all to do with an enraged US political and military establishment, which deployed its resources, agents and influence to decommission Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, by any means whatsoever.  Perhaps even by way of 'allegations' put forward by the same Swedish law enforcement establishment, that is answerable to Swedish politicians who, in turn, have made a habit of answering to America and assisting the CIA behind closed doors, against Swedish law and the constitution. Sweden's unusually laissez fair attitude in respect of the accused Sweden Prime Minister Olof Palme alleged assassin (mercenary/Sapo agent), enjoying a peaceful Greek decades-long 'extended holiday' without so much as a formal Swedish police interview, stands in stark contrast to the legal, financial and personal nightmare (and grave threat to life and well-being) that WikiLeaks publisher, Julian Assange, faces. Author/Journalist Stieg Larsson's Memo detailing the connections he found between Bertil Wedin & the murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme Stieg Larssons PM om Palmemordet Här kan du klicka dig igenom det PM där succéförfattaren Stieg Larsson detaljerat beskriver de kopplingar han hittat mellan Bertil Wedin och mordet på Olof Palme. http://www.svd.se/stieg-larssons-pm_8988874 [Swedish] ------- Assange FAQ ------- https://justice4assange.com/ --------------------- MORE SouthAfrica / Book  Olivia Forsyth spy of apartheid era imprisoned by ANC in Angola escaped to British Embassy recruited by 'notorious' Craig Williamson infiltration of ANC supporters spying on lefties defection to ANC journalist One of the most notorious of the Eastern Cape spies was Agent RS407 Olivia Forsyth - code name "Lara" - who infiltrated activist groups at Rhodes University as a student and sang freedom songs while passing on information to the security police. In 1988 her cover was blown and she was detained and tortured in an ANC prison camp in Angola, from which she escaped. [iol] Craig Williamson former South African Police major / spy exposure 1980 /state-sponsored overseas bombings, killings etc = named in a South African court for Olof Palme's assassination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Williamson SAPO connection journalist Bertil Wedin agent of Swedish secret service (SÄPO) / involved South Africa spy outfit Bertil Wedin Since 1985 been living North Cyprus North Cyprus not recognised by anyone but Turkey = has NO EXTRADITION TREATIES http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/13573083.Former_Padgate_high_school_teacher_reveals_life_as_a_spy/ Bertil Wedin: contacts with SÄPO, South Africa, & the Turkish secret service A number of sources within the former South African secret services are now pointing out Bertil Wedin, the Swede who worked for Craig Williamson in London, as the man who actually shot Palme. Mr Wedin has a remarkable profile: He is a notorious right-wing extremist and professional soldier with a past as a Congo mercenary and an officer of the Swedish Army. He also worked as an informer for SÄPO (the Swedish state security police) in the 1970. In the 1980s, Wedin was recruited by the South African secret services and was eventually stationed in London as one of Craig Williamson’s men in the "Long Reach" operation. Since 1985 Wedin has lived in the Turkish part of Cyprus. He has worked for, among others the Turkish Ministry of Information and is said to have excellent contacts with the Turkish secret service MIT. Last, not least, Wedin is also a member of WAcl. [here] Craig Williamson infiltrated Swedish anti-apartheid agency In the 1970s, Craig Williamson, posing as a South African student opposed to apartheid, managed to get himself employed by the International University Exchange Fund (IUEF) in Geneva. The real purpose of this organisation, set up by the Swedish Social Democrats, was actually to channel secret Swedish financial assistance to the anti-apartheid movement, in particular to the ANC. In the Palme era, Sweden was the only Western country providing generous support to the ANC and Palme was an outspoken enemy of the Apartheid regime. In 1980, it came to light that Williamson was spying for the South African secret service and had managed to divert considerable sums destined for anti-apartheid groups to none other than the hit squads of the South African secret service. Through his infiltration of IUEF Williamson acquired excellent insider knowledge of Swedish politics and, above all, of some of Palme’s closest collaborators. He must also have understood Palme’s instrumental role in the fight against South African apartheid. [here] The Swedish connection In Sweden, speculation about possible involvement of extreme-right circles within the police and the military in Palme’s murder have flourished for ten years. The recent allegations made by a number of former members of the South African secret services have given rise to new questions in Sweden about this "police link". The number of hints pointing in this direction is alarming. [here]