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SA LINKS IN THE PALME-MURDER:
Olof Palme, the Swedish premier and leader of the Social Democratic
Part was an ardent opponent of apartheid. He was gunned down on a
Stockholm street (Seavägen) on February 28, 1986, after leaving a
movie theatre with his wife Lisbet. A man in an overcoat approached
Palme and his wife from behind, drew a Smith & Wesson revolver and
shot the premier in his back.

Several leads were followed (victim of a police plot, the work of a
Kurdish terrorist group or of a lone assailant with a grudge), but the
police have never been able to solve the crime.

According to the journalist-researcher Sven Anér, the Africa
specialist/journalist Per Wästberg told the Swedish police 5 days
after Palme's murder that there could be a SA involvement, but the
police didn't even border to register Wästberg's two letters. The
police seemed clearly not willing to investigate the SA trail. Sven
Anér is convinced that some members of the Swedish police had a
direct hand in the murder of Palme [see Sven Anér: Polissporet, 1988].
Others don't believe this, although nobody denies the possibility of
some involvement in a more indirect way.

Question: Why said (until very recently) the Swedish police all the
time that the SA trail was not worth investigating? As we will see
there were from the beginning some indications that the South Africans
could have been involved in the Palme-murder:

Information from England:

1. A few days after the murder of Olof Palme. The British
Intelligence, MI6, received a strange report: the man who had murdered
Olof Palme had been acting under orders from the SA security police.
Members of the death squad Koevoet, or COIN, were behind the murder.
The SA agent, Craig Williamson, was mentioned as the designer of the
plans to murder Palme, aided by Swedish police men. [Jesús Alcalá, in:
Dagens Nyheter:9/10/96]

2. At about the same time, Karl-Gunnar Bäck, the GS of the Civil
Defence Force Association was contacted by an old acquaintance from
England. He told him that the MI6 had information on the murder of
Olof Palme. The informant claimed that Palme was murdered by (members
of the) SA security forces. A Swedish policeman was also indicated (to
have participated). Bäck recorded the information on a cassette and
send it to Säpo (the Swedish security police) in Uppsala. Months
passed by and nobody got back in touch with him. But late summer 1986
Bäck was suddenly informed that "the leads had een investigated and
had led to nothing". Bäck was surprised. Säpo had never bothered to
speak to him and hadn't even asked for his informant's name. It is now
established that the Palme-investigators neither knew of the tape, nor
whether or not the lead had been investigated. Säpo claims it is
impossible to find the tape. [see also Alcalá; Lars Borgnäs]

South Africa and the police-trail in Sweden:

3. The Palme-investigators received another lead on involvement from
SA together with Swedish accomplices. - An informant, a known thug,
who for the moment was serving a jail sentence, said that he was
convinced that Swedish policemen helped SA agents in the murder of
Palme. Some Swedish police men were members of the IPA, International
Police Association. They ran a training camp in Rydsford and they had
made several trips to SA where they had met with representatives of
the SA security police (DNR 15384, record of investigation from the
15th Nov. 1995). The policemen and the IPA should also have had secret
premises and weapons at a meeting place in Wallingatan 32 (Stockholm),
a few blocks from the crime scene. According to an informer these
policemen were nazis, bore arms while off duty and had frequent
contact with South African agents [DNR 15210 Skrivelse av den 6 maj
1993, cited in Alcalá]. It was almost certain that the World
anti-Communist League (WACL) had also an office in that same
building.

- There has been an internal investigation of six policemen known for
right-wing sympathies, who paid, on several occasions, visits to South
Africa in the mid 1980s (1985-87. Is it a coincidence that the police
station (called the Norrmalm ?? precinct) where they used to work is
next door to the Birger Jarl Hotel where Williamson used to stay?
[Madi Gray, 2/10/96]. According to Alcalá, when the police is
confronted with information of undemocratic, nazi and conspiratory
colleagues, they don't, which could be expected, interrogate every
person available for interrogation (Question: Why ?)

- The policemen of this precinct had a record during the 1980's of
being involved in police brutality: there was a so-called "baseball
league" which was involved in extreme right wing politics and former
policemen of that precinct left it to open up so-called private
security companies and were involved in arms trade.

- This precinct covers the area where Palme was murdered. Some
policemen were that night out on the streets, but nothing was seen and
according to Sven Anér the police station didn't react adequately
after the murder was reported. Of one policeman it is known that he
was too exhausted to chase after Palme's murder due to having consumed
a can of coke just before arriving at the scene of the crime
[Interview Sven Anér; Alcalá]

- The newspaper photographer, Ake Malström, was the night of the
murder listening in on a police radio frequency, where he claimed to
have overheard a conversation between two police officers moments
after the shooting. The alleged conversation ran: "It's cold up here"
to which the other officer replied: "It's over now. The prime minister
is dead." The photographer filed a statement, but was never called in
for questioning.[ News 25/2/94]. - According to Tor Sellström
[Interview], Johan Coetzee was sitting at a diplomatic function (early
1996) next to a person of the Swedish Embassy at Pretoria and when
Coetzee heard that this lady was from Sweden, he said that he
remembered the tough days that Sweden and SA didn't have good contacts
, but that however he as commissioner of police always he had good
contacts and how the Swedish police had visited SA through the IPA.
Question: What did these policemen do in SA, who did they visit there
etc.

- Swedish journalist who recently visited South Africa and tried to
see the guestbooks of the IPA guesthouses in Cape Town, Jo'burg and
Pretoria were told, that they were destroyed [see Dagens Nyheter
10/10/96:5]

Sweden and the PKK-trail:

4. -After the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme, Bertil Wedin
(or "Morgan" or John Wilson, here called BW) a Swedish right-winger,
who in the past had worked for Craig Williamson, acted, according to
Hasselbohm, as the initiator of the PKK-lead, which soon became the
main lead in the search for Palme's killer. The Kurdish PKK is the
Turkish government's main enemy, which has battled Ankara security
forces in Turkey since 1984. BW seems to have faked this link with the
PKK and passed it to a journalist on the Turkish daily Hurriyet. He
located six or seven members of the PKK-group that killed Palme. This
promotion of the PKK-lead was made more than three months before Hans
Holmér, Stockholm chief of police and head of the Palme murder
investigation, claimed for the first time that "PKK is behind the
murder of Olof Palme." This became the investigation's main lead, with
police chief Hans Holmér and Ebbe Carlsson as it's promoter and
lobbyist. A major police sweep of PKK sympathisers in Sweden followed
but investigators later had to give up this lead.[see Hasselbohm]

- BW is a Swedish right wing extremist, and former informant for the
Swedish security police. He always openly declared that he was working
against the Swedish social democratic government and especially
against Prime Minister Olof Palme.

He is/was a friend of Göran Assar Oredsson, leader of the neo-nazi
party Nordiska Rikspartiet. BW was an officer of the United Nations
peace-keeping forces in the Congo (1961) and Cyprus(1963).In Cyprus he
served as a lieutenant, for several periods, on the staff intelligence
unit in the UN forces.

In 1966 (the year he resigned from the Swedish army) he went to the
American embassy in Stockholm and demanded to be sent to Vietnam to
fight. Nothing came of this plan. - In 1967 BW was the driving force
behind "The Committee for a Free Asia", a committee that was planning
a counter-tribunal on Vietnam that would investigate "the murders and
atrocities, committed by the communist side in the Vietnam war." At
this time BW became a regular informant for the Swedish security
police (Säpo). He supplied them with information on left-wing Swedes.

At the same time as he was a security police informant, BW also worked
for a Swedish bank (Stockholm Enskilda Bank). BW, who now calls
himself a journalist, produces the newsletter Mediasammandrag (Media
Summery) for the bank. Recently BW confirmed that he had been involved
in military intelligence work.

In 1976 a Swedish newspaper wrote that BW most probably was behind
newspaper advertisements trying to recruit mercenaries for service in
Southern Africa. The same year he moved with his family to England. On
behalf of the Federation of Swedish Industries (Sweriges
Industriforbund), the Swedish Employers' Federation (Svenska
Arbetsgivarforeningen) and some 15 companies he arranged seminars and
meetings in London, so that Swedish businessmen could met businessmen,
politicians and thinkers from Britain.

- Craig Williamson (see below) recruited BW as a South African spy. BW
said he had met Craig Williamson in SA in 1980. Williamson had
introduced him to Peter Casselton, based in London, to whom BW had to
report. Casselton was a British citizen, but a SA agent, who had given
BW the codename "John Wilson".

- BW became involved in break-ins at various anti-apartheid
organisation offices in London. A letter from Craig Williamson to BW
resulted in a police search of the Swede's twelve-room house in
Townbridge, Kent. The police found stolen material, as well as notes
from documents stolen from the office of the PAC. They also found a
map over the area around the PAC office, showing the way to the
underground station Dollis Hill, as well as sketches of the office
itself.

BW told the police that via a bank account in Switzerland, he was paid
1.000 pounds per months (much more in today's value) in salary by
Williamson, plus costs. He also received camera equipment. After being
interrogated at the Rochester Row police station in London, the Swede
was soon released on bail.

As opposed to Casselton and Aspinall, BW declared himself not guilty
at the court proceedings in Old Baily on 17 December 1982. The judge
agreed that he could remain free on bail. During the trial against him
in April BW claimed never to have given the SAns information. The
judge noted that he then could not understand what BW had done to earn
the money the SA had paid him. BW claimed that he had used the money
to write a book on Soviet subversive activities, a work that to no
one's knowledge was ever published. But BW admitted he had been at the
PAC office on three occasions, but for the purpose of doing
interviews. The map of the area around the PAC office and the
underground, BW explained by saying he had "a bad memory" and needed
it to find his way. He never had to account for the sketches of the
inside of the office. The Swede was acquitted. - However, after being
acquitted BW admitted to the press that he had supplied information to
the company Africa Aviation Consultants on the Isle of Man. But he
claimed to have done it in "good faith", without knowing that
Williamson's and Casselton's company was a front for the SA security
service. In SA the Williamson-lead London operation was regarded a
greet success.

- According to Hasselbohm, in 1985 BW held a key position in an
organisation called Victims Against Terrorism (VAT), a major SA
propaganda operation in Europe. May 1985 VAT staged a demonstration
outside the ANC office in London, accusing the ANC of carrying out
acts of terror. Later another South African agent (Arthur Kemp,notes
*1)became a leading figure in this organisation [Searchlight, Nov.
1996:6].

-November 1985 BW and his family flew to Northern Cyprus. On their
arrival cards they declared that they were going to settle there
permanently. BW was issued with a Turk-Cypriot ID-card in March 1986.
On at least one previous occasion the Swede had, for unknown reasons,
gone to Cyprus (using the undercover name "John Wilson") together with
the SAn agent Peter Casselton. Right after his arrival in Northern
Cyprus, BW was employed by the Ministry of Information there. Part of
his job was to work for Radyo Bayrak, Turk-Cypriot radio. He used the
radio to fire off vicious attacks against the social democrats and
Olof Palme in particular. He was Middle-East correspondent for the
Swedish ultra-right journal "Kontra" (Counter-guerrilla).

- It is after the assassination of Palme that BW took on his new role
as the initiator of the PKK-lead. Wedin denied any involvement in the
assassination of Olof Palme.

[Based on an interview with and 5 articles written by Swedish
journalist Anders Hasselbohm; see also Nadire Mater: Sweden-Palme Oct.
4 Sapa-IPS].

Question: Was this PKK-trail a red herring, fed by Bertil Wedin, to
conceal South Africa's role? I think it was. Because Weden was blown
after his appearance in court in 1982, it is unlikely that he was
directly involved in Palme's murder. BUT indirectly it looks like he
was: the creation of this false trail is probably the strongest
indication that something is wrong here.

Strange things in Sweden:

5. Heine Hüman (45),is allegedly a Swede of SA origen, who came to
Sweden in the beginning of the 80's [Interview Tor Sellström]. To day
he lives in Florida [see Expressen 29/9/96:12-13].

- During the time of Palme's murder Hüman lived in some God-
forgotten-place outside Uppsala where he has some sort of car repair
shop. Fourteen minutes after the murder of Palme an elderly couple in
Stockholm (Bromma) received a mysterious phonecall with the message:
"The job is done, Palme is dead". With the only difference of one
digit in the area code (Stockholm 08; Uppsala-area 018), their number
corresponded to the number of a telephone in a room of a clubhouse of
which allegedly only Hüman had the key.

- Hüman left Sweden in a hurry after the Palme assassination, without
saying goodbye to his neighbours. These neighbours, who were
interviewed by Swedish newspapers, said that there was a lot of funny
business going on at night at his place.

- Swedish journalist have tracked him down in Florida (USA) where he
lives under another name in a place outside Miamy where a lot of
American ex-intelligence people are retired too [Expressen
29/9/96:12-13]. Hüman denied any involvement in the assassination of
Olof Palme.

- In the past Hüman claimed to be a South African agent and that he
had been involved in Dulcie September's murder [Vrije Weekblad
12/1/90]. ANC intelligence officers interviewed him in Harare
(Zimbabwe) but according to Tor Sellström who lived during that time
also in Harare, there were doubts about Hüman's claims. He might have
done something, but his stories didn't make much sense.

6. There are also reports of three men who camped out in a white combi
for some weeks before the murder. It was cold that winter, with snow
on the ground, but to avoid registration, they did not stay in a
hotel. The camping van is believed to have come from neighbouring
Finland to the east and possibly drove out via Norway in the west. It
was claimed that the men were South Africans [Madi Gray]

7. Swedish newspapers [Hans Strandberg SvD 1/10/96) claim that two
policemen said that South Africa's superspy Craig Williamson was in
Stockholm at the time of the anti-apartheid conference (Svensk
Folkriksdag mot Apartheid, 21-23 Feb.1986) and was there also on the
night of the murder. Through IPA Williamson allegedly hired a room
(under a false name) in a guesthouse belonging to the IPA
(Kammakargatan 36), down the road two hundred meters from the spot
where Palme was shot (?? I doubt it -KdJ- if this is true, because CW
was too well known in Sweden).

- Craig Williamson, former major in SA's security police and since
Dec. 1985 employed by military intelligence (MI), knows Sweden and
Stockholm well. Williamson had infiltrated ("Operation Daisy") the
Geneva-based and Swedish-funded International University Exchange Fund
(IUEF). The fund had "virtually been run from Palme's office" and one
of the key links was Bernt Carlsson (later killed in the Lockerbie
bombing). The IUEF gave scholarships to African (especially supported
hundreds of opponents of apartheid) and Latin American students who
had fled from right-wing regimes. Williamson became deputy director
and trusted assistant of the Swedish IUEF director, Lars Gunnar
Eriksson, a friend of Olof Palme. The project of CW and his boss Johan
Coetzee was to infiltrate (through the IUEF) the ANC. Eriksson was
anti-communist and wanted to support a third force, especially the
Black Consciousness Movement [interview Tor Sellström], which was just
what the South Africans liked (Notes *2 ).

- From 1977 until his exposure as spy in 1980, Williamson visited the
Swedish capital on several occasions. He had the ear of people with
power and usually stayed at the Birger Jarl Hotel round the corner
from the Swedish aid agency, SIDA. At least one of these visits -in
April 1978- was kept secret from his usual hosts in the Foreign
Ministry. Within walking distance of the Aston Hotel where Williamson
was then staying, lay the ANC office, where there was an unexplained
break-in. Nothing was taken, but the files were disturbed. [Madi Gray,
interview}

- At a press conference in Stockholm early in 1980 Lars Gunnar
Eriksson said that security police chief Johan Coetzee had approached
him in a hotel in Geneva. Johan Coetzee asked Eriks son to keep
Williamson's police identity a secret for another six months, so that
Williamson could nestle in, closer to the ANC. The revelations shocked
Eriksson, who fled to Sweden.

- When auditors checked IUEF's books, they found a financial mess.
Williamson had been siphoning off IUEF funds to build Daisy Farm, in
the Pretoria region. Daisy Farm focused on apartheid foes abroad. It
was section A, a special unit of the SA police which was in charge of
the anti-apartheid strugglers abroad and its chief was Williamson
[Sapa 30/9/96].

- CW admitted that Wedin was working for him, but also another Swede.
Don't know who that would be (perhaps Hüman?).

- CW admitted to be responsible for the murders of Ruth First and the
wife and daughter of the ANC-activist Marius Schoon but denied any
involvement in the assassination of Olof Palme.

The Swedish People's Parliament against Apartheid:

8. This "parliament" was organised by the Swedish anti-apartheid
groups and announced a long time before it was actually held (from
21-23 February 1986). Among others the participation of Oliver Tambo,
Thabo Mbeki and Abdul Minty of the ANC was announced as well as that
of representatives of the UDF and SWAPO.

- A possible scenario?:

It is imaginable that South Africans would be interested and moved in
with some agents or even a hitsquad (see point 6). Craig Williamson
who knew Stockholm well, would almost certainly be involved (see point
7).

Craig Williamson said in an interview with Tor Sellström that "Sweden
was badly worked and not well penetrated. So it was very much left to
political contacts", which could only mean, with right wing groups in
Sweden, who could function as a kind of local (sleeping) network (??
see point 3; perhaps men like Hüman and Wedin and their contacts).

- Although security would be tight (as indeed it was), it would be
easy to keep track of the movements of persons like Tambo, Mbeki
etceteras, because there were places they certainly would visit
before, during or after this parliament: like the HQ of the Socialist
Democratic Party (a place that Palme visited also regularly), the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the SIDA-building, places in the Centre
of Stockholm not very far from each other. [see map Expressen
29/9/96:10] It is an area Craig Williamson knew very well as well.

- A week before Palme was killed, in the meeting where he was reading
his prepared manuscript, according to Madi Gray "he gestured and put
the manuscript down on the desk in front of him. He raised his head
(left his prepared speech) and said: We are all responsible for
apartheid. If the world wants apartheid to end, it could end to morrow
by simply withdrawing support to the apartheidsregime.' At the time
it was such a revolutionary statement, that it took everybody's breath
away". It certainly angered as well the Swedish extreme right as the
South Africans.

- During this "Parliament"-period the local network and the hitsquad
could have been activated against one or more of the representatives
of the ANC, UDF or SWAPO (or even against Palme??). For some reason
(tight security?) this plan is blown off.

- It might even that the local Swedish network than says, OK why don't
you help us with something we want to be done. The whole operation was
already mounted and they didn't succeed to do anything with Tambo and
the others. Although the assassination of Palme is not in the prime
interest of the South African's, they give their support to the local
Swedes.

(this is a hypothetical scenario discussed with several informants).

- With the centre of town under surveillance, it could be known that
Palme, on the night of 28/2/86 dismissed his bodyguards and went to
the cinema with his family. More or less two hours to organise the
killing. With a structure already in place, not much of a problem. The
perpetrator could be a hired contract killer (notes *3), someone of
the Swedish extreme right circles, a SA agent (White was mentioned) or
even the bum Christer Pettersson (notes *4).

- The police said the murder was too unprofessionally done to be the
work of agents. But, how do you hide your trail, your cover up?
Perhaps the best way, is to make it look like as an unprofessional
job, hiding the people behind it. Police superintendent Hans Ölvebro
thought that ït was "improbable that a group could have organised
itself so quickly".[News 25/2/94], but above we showed how it could
have been done.

Allegations from South Africa:

9. Eugene de Kock mentioned Craig Williamson in his mitigation plea at
Pretoria Supreme Court, as the one who had masterminded the
assassination of Olof Palme in 1986. De Kock believed that the Swede
Bertil Wedin (56 y.old) living in Kyrenia North Cyprus, was the
murderer (see above). De Kock said he learned of SA involvement in
Palme's killing during a meeting "in 1992 or 1993" with Philip
Powell, now an Inkatha Freedom Party (IPF) senator.

10. Former hitsquad leader Dirk Coetzee said Anthony White , also a
founder member of Longreach was the killer of Palme. Williamson's
military intelligence front Longreach was reporting to Brigadier
"Tolletjie" Botha. Coetzee first learned of the Palme link through a
former agent in the Longreach outfit, "Riaan" Stander, a low ranking
former security policeman. Stander made also these revelations to a
Swedish journalist in 1995. He says White was assisted in the
assassination by British "spy" Mike Irwin (British marines in Northern
Ireland and the Falklands war) who also worked for Longreach. Peter
Casselton (now living in Pretoria and visiting his friend Eugene de
Kock regularly) told the Swedish state television that White had
nothing to do with the killing of Palme, and that the murderer was a
European living in hiding somewhere in the Mediterranean. [SouthScan
Vol.11 No.37, 4 October 1996].

Question: Why did Coetzee not come earlier with these declarations? He
talked so much!

11. James Anthony White (50), former Selous Scout and once a ruthless
killer for Ian Smith's Rhodesia. White was one of the main killers of
the Nyadzonia ZANU-camp in Mozambique (August 1976), where 600-1000
people were killed. He made also two failed attempts to murder
Zimbabwean liberation leader Joshua Nkomo in Lusaka, according to a
book by his former Selous Scout commander, Ron Reid-Daly. The first
involved parking a car packed with explosives on a route often taken
by Nkomo; the second was an attack on Nkomo's house that destroyed the
building and killed several people inside - but not Nkomo [M&G
1/10/96: White tried to kill Nkomo]. White moved to SA after
Zimbabwe's independence in 1980.[SAPA, 30/9/96]. He is known as a
"loner" mercenary with a history of "selling to the highest bidder".

White was a founder member of Longreach. He was involved in contraband
operations in the 1980's and a member of a poaching and ivory
smuggling network which operated in Zimbabwe soon after the country's
independence in 1980 [Sapa 30/9/96].

White was linked to both the South African and the Mozambican security
services. White is running a furniture factory (a sawmill) on the
outskirts of Beira in Mozambique. He is manufacturing exclusive
hardwood furniture and doors through a timber concession he obtained
from the Mozambique government [Sapa 30/9/96] Mozambique's Frelimo
government has sheltered White for years. White became close to
Frelimo during the latter stages of the war against Renamo, when he
protested loudly at attempts by Renamo to extort money from businesses
working in hardwood forests under Renamo control [see Paul Fauvet,
Maputo 1/10/96]

- White denied any involvement in the assassination of Olof Palme.

Motives:

1. ?? South Africa ( a hypothesis): Swedes stood for more than 50% of
the ANC's civilian budget in the 80's. Sweden was one of the countries
that was pushing sanctions hardest and the first to carry them out (
after 1985 -when it really started). But assassinating one person
doesn't make much sense. The government (neither the conservative one)
didn't change its policies towards South Africa.

2. ?? Swedish extreme right-wing groups (a hypothesis): They hated
Palme. But to the extend that they wanted to kill him? Might be a
possibility. It is very difficult to get information about these
circles. But (according to Tor Sellström) there is something that
starts in Katanga and there are links to mercs in South Africa (see
Lasse Berg's documentary film: "Lieutenant Erik"). It leads to
Rhodesia, to the Seychelles-coup , to the World Anti Communist League
and to UNITA and through that to Angola and Executive Outcomes.

3. ?? A combination of 1 and 2 (see point 8)

4. ?? Work of a lone assailant who had some reason to wish Palme dead
(the view of some policedetectives)

5. ?? Other groups or organisations: Palme the victim of a police
plot; of a Kurdish terrorist group; of the East German Red Army
fraction; of Abu Nidal's Palestinian terrorist organisation; of the
secret Iraqi secret service; of the KGB, the CIA/P2, Mossad and of
international arms dealers.

Notes:

*1 According to Searchlight [Nov.1996:6] Arthur Kemp was a prime
suspect in the murder of Chris Hani in 1993.

*2 According to Hasselbohm the IUEF was the architect behind a meeting
between the ANC and the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), and a few
other organisations. In order to hide the real purpose of Steve Biko's
trip to England (planned for the autumn of 1977), IUEF had arranged
for Biko to give a number of speeches. As IUEF's Deputy Directer,
Craig Williamson knew that Steve Biko was to meet the ANC. Because
Williamson's detailed information on the London meeting, it became
possible for the regime to derail the talks in London. Only weeks
before the meeting, Steve Biko was arrested at a road-block and
tortured to death.

*3 Reporters-investigators as Sven Anér, Olle Alsén and Anders
Hasselbohm they all believe that the murder is the work of a contract
killer linked to the Swedish police (Anér); or to Gladio, the secret
Nato "stay behind" network to defend Europe in the event of a Soviet
invasion (Alsén) or to the South African secret police (Hasselbohm).

Hasselbohm [see his articles] mentioned the American hitman Michael
Townley, who once worked for the Chilean secret service DINA, which
had Olof Palme on his death list. According to Hasselbohm at the time
there were close ties between the South African and Chilean security
services. And there were links running from Craig Williamson (via
Italy) to Michael Townley.

*4 The petty criminal Christer Pettersson, is a braindamaged drug
addict, who was arrested in December 1988 and charged on
identification by Palme's wife. He was tried and jailed despite
protests that bungling police and intelligence services were using him
as a patsy. Pettersson was acquitted after 10 months and paid massive
compensation.

Recently a man, referred to as "the Chevy man", because he witnessed
the murder while parked in his Chevrolet said that he was "95% sure"
that Pettersson was the killer. The man hadn't positively identified
Pettersson in previous interrogations because he feared for his life.

A second witness (Sigge Cedergren), also changed recently his
testimony just before his death . Cedergren was Pettersson's drug
dealer. On his death bed he told the police that he had supplied
Pettersson with the gun (a Smith and Wesson.357 Magnum that never has
been found), but had not known of Pettersson's intentions.[SAPA-AFP,
Stockholm 1/10/96]

According to Bodil Dreifaldt, Palme looked just like a man to whom
Pettersson owned a lot of money. Was it perhaps just a stupid accident
or could it be (if Pettersson was involved) that he was made to
believe that the man he had problems with, would walk at Seavägen.

Amsterdam, Nov. 1996

Postscript 1997: Since the end of 1996 some new information was
published:

- According to SAPA-AFP (16/2/97) new evidence pointed to Swedish
killer in Palme murder. Chief public prosecuter Jan Danielsson
rejected speculation about South African involvement in the murder,
saying this theory had merely served to distract the police from "a
more promising lead". No South African trail.

- According to "Intelligence Newsletter" [Paris, 3/6/97] the American
journalist Allan Francovich died when passing through customs at
Houston airport on April 18 1997. His death was officially attributed
to a heart attack. Francovich, who lived in London, had been working
for several months on the assassination of Olof Palme. During the stay
in the US he planned to meet the person whom his sources had indicated
was the killer. Francovich had the man's name, address and picture. He
had become a profession killler after he joined Savak, the former
Iranian secret service, where he had been traineed by the CIA.
Francovich was about to reveal that the operation to murder Palme
(code name: "Operation tree")was mounted during a series of meetings
staged late 1985 by an ultra secret organization within NATO." No
South African trail!

- According to "Independent on line" [24/7/97] The Maputo police
arrested in 1997 (July), the SA buisnessman Richard Fair in connection
with espionage and possession of illegal firearms. Fair co-owns a boat
transport business with Swedish national Nigel Barnett. Flair admitted
in a Swedish television interview, that he once flew into Mozambique
with Barnett, Anthony White and and Peter Casselton as the pilot. All
three were names last year by Eugene de Kock and Dirk Coetzee as being
involved with "superspy" Craig Williamson in the assassination of
Prime Minister Olaf Palme. All have denied involvement in the
assassination plot. Casselton died in February 1997. An
police-investigation didn't shed new light on the Palme investigation.

Sources:

- "CIA/P-2 en de moord op Palme -sensationele onthullingen-", in
Ultimatum, okt./nov. 1990: 10-17

- "Twijfel over identiteit van moordenaar Palme blijft", NRC 19/10/96

- "De CIA, de P-2 loge, en de moord op Palme", in NN-69 1/11/90:4-5

- "De Moord op Palme. Extreem rechtse konnekties en Internationale
wapensmokkel", in Ultimatum, aug/sept 1989:5-6

- Landau, Saul & Dingens, John: "Wie heeft Olof Palme vermoord?
Zweeds onderzoek in ruzie vastgelopen", in De Groene Amsterdammer,
18/6/86:9

- Wel, Cees van der: "De Zweedse politie op dood spoor. Wordt
vervolgd: het Drama Olof Palme", in De Tijd, 12/9/86:24-27

- "Op zoek naar de moordenaar(s) van Olof Palme. Op het spoor van een
moordenaar. De komplottheorie", in Ultimatum, dec. 1988: 10-14

- Wiedemann, Erich: "Palme-Mord: Die Apartheid-Krokodile", in Der
Spiegel 42, 1996: 166-173 - "Chronologie zum Palme-Mord und zehn
Jahren erfolgloser

Fahndung", EMP-mbH 22/2/96

- Knapp, Klaus D & Nagel, Burkhard: "Der Olof Palme Mord, die
verbotene Spur"/"The murder of Olof Palme

- The forbidden trail" (a documentary film)

- Hasselbohm, Anders: five articles written by this Swedish
journalist, translated into English by a fellow at The Norwegian
Council for Africa (originally written for the Aftonbladet 1994-95):

- Smith, Alexandra Duval: "15,000 Leads to nowhere", in The Guardian,
25/2/93

- McIvor, Greg:"Palme murder close to solution' eight years on", in
Eur.News 25/2/94

- "Palme murder investigators deny reopening of case", Sapa-AFP,
Stockholm 1/10/96

- "SA linked to Palme murder", Hit squads/27/9/96

- "Sweden had allegations of SA involvement in Palme's death" Sapa-Ap
26/9/96

- "Swedish police aim to follow Palme murder trail to South Africa",
Sapa-AFP, 1/10/96

- "Swedish team to go to SA in Palme case within week", Sapa-AFP,
3/10/96

- Rodney, Derek: "SA super spy' linked to Palme slaying", Star,
27/9/96

- Rodney, Derek: "Super-spy Craig Williamson involved in Swedish
assassination", The Star on line 27/9/96

- "No further case on man acquitted of Palme killing", Citizen 2/10/96

- "Williamson speaks to Swedish investigators", Jo'burg Sapa, 19/10/96

- "Swedish investigators in PE to question Palme suspects", PE, Sapa,
25/10/96

- Ex-soldier is named as Palme's assassin", Independent 30/9/96

- Thornycroft, Peta: "Palme's murder still a mystery", WM&G,
4/10/96:11

- "ANC on murder of Olof Palme", ANC Press Statements, 26/9/96

- "SA Politics: Swedish police to follow up Palme murder allegations",
SouthScan, vol. 11 No.37 4/10/96: 292-3

- "On the trail of Palme's assassins. The finger points South",
Searchlight, Nov. 1996:3-10.

- Nicoll, Ruaridh:"The maverick, the mole and the ant. Which South
African agent killed Sweden's Olof Palme?", in: The Observer, 6/10/96

- "Special measures needed if SA involved in Palme murder: Mandela",
Sapa, 3/10/96

- Alcalá, Jesus: "The police did not investigate hot leads', a crude
translation of a Swedish article (see Alcalá, below) 9/10/96

- "Swedish Palme murder investigators to leave South Africa, Sapa-AFP,
6/11/96

- "White did not kill Swedish PM: S. African Agent", in Sapa-AFP,
30/9/96

- "Wife denies husband killed Palme", Sapa-AFP 30/9/96

- "Palme's alleged assassin denies involvement", Sapa-AFP 30/9/96

- "Swedish investigators not hasty to go to South Africa", Sapa-AFP,
30/9/96

- "Swedes to check Palme claim- White rejects accusations", Sapa-AFP
30/9/96

- Alleged Palme killer will work for highest bidder': report",
Sapa-AFP, 30/9/96

- O'Grady, Kevin & Laufer, Stephen: "Swedish, SA police to probe Palme
murder", Business Day Online-News 27/9/96 - "Palme Murder: White tried
to kill Nkomo", WM&G 1/10/96 - Holmér, Hans: "The Palme murder a
Swedish trauma", Palme-news 1/10/96

- Mater, Nadire: "Ex-secret agent denies killing Palme for South
Africa", Sapa-IPS 4/10/96

- "SA giving full co-operation to investigators probing Palme
assassination", The Star 18/10/96

- "Swedish police aim to follow Palme murder trail to South Africa",
Sapa-AFP 1/10/96

- Gray, Madi: "Who murdered Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in
1986", Stockholm, 2/10/96 4 pags(roneo)

- "Palme's killer in Turkey: Report", Sapa-AFP, 4/10/96

- Hobbs, Ian: "Swedes weigh options on De Kock s testimony", Business
Day on line 27/9/96

- Svensson, Niklas & Folcker, Annika: "Pale-mordet: Vad vet han om
mördaren?", in Expressen, 9/10/96: 10-11

- Holte, Elisabeth: "Uklarhet om nytt Palme-spor", Aftenposten,
28/9/96

- Carlberg, Peter & Magnergard, Roger: "Pettersson polisens hetaste
Palme-spar", Svenska Dagbladet 1/10-96 - Alcalá, Jesús: "Polisen
utredde inte heta tips"- 1 in Dagens Nyheter 9/10/96:B2 (see above)

- Holte, Elisabeth: "Wedin:- Ville drepe meg ogsa", Aftenposten
3/10/96

- Norrman, Av Leiff: "Palme var inte sa hatad". Sydafrika. Sveriges
roll överdriven", In Dagens Nyheter, 7/10/96

- Engberg, Leif; Hagersfors, Anna-Maria; Lisinski, Stefan & Norrman,
Leif: "Sydafrika sopar igen sparen: Gästböcker försvinner. Swenska
polisers besök före och Palmemordet gär inte att kontrollera."in
Dagens Nyheter, 10/10/96: A5

- Expressen, EXTRA: " Han avslöjar namnet pa Palmes mördare" in
Expressen 29/9/96;6-13 (about Dirk Coetzee; Anthony White; Craig
Williamson; IPA & the Swedish Police; Heine Hüman; Bertil Wedin)

- "Palme-nytt" (a series of investigative journalism about Palme),
numbers 7 (23/9/96) & 8 (2/10/96)

- "Palme-mordet- Jag mötte Williamson i Stockholm" and other articles,
in Expressen, 10/10/96: 10-11(about Craig Williamson and his meeting
with a Norwegian mercenary in Stockholm, february 1986 just before
Palme's murder).

Books in Swedish about Palme's murder:

- Anèr, Sven: Polissparet, 1988 (about the police trail) and two other
books about the Affairs Chamonix and Borlänge, denouncing the alibis
of Carl Lidbom, former Swedish Ambassador to France and of the former
head of the murder investigations Hans Holmèr.

- Poutiainen, Kari & Pertti: Inuti labyrinten (Within the Labyrinth)
date ? (850 pages attacks upon the Stockholm police force)

- Minell, Olle ? a book about the police trail, Gothenburg.

Ebbes ställning och karriär är ganska tydlig om man orkar sätta sig in. IC kommer inte in utan att gå via någon. Många inklusive IC känner obehag inför just Ebbe men å andra sidan har han ju känslig information kring alla affärer så han är svår att mota bort.

Man ser tydligt hur han flyttar positioner när gamla kontakter flyttar in i maktens boningar. När Lejon flyttar in utverkar han fribrev. När Åhmansson gör tillfällig visit som chef så får Ebbe luft.Egen bil och "livvakt". Ebbe försöker först värva journalister som Mosander mfl i Ebbeaffären. Med Åhmansson som RPS-chef från januari 1988 skedde det. Redan 27 juli hade det nått till förhör i KU. 3 oktober meddelade JK att man skulle granska dennes tjänsteutövning med anledning av utredningen som avskrivits kring kontakterna med Ebbe och ev sekretessbrott. Bara 14 dagar senare kom rapporten som krävde dennes avgång och 2 dagar senare 19 oktober avgick Å. Efter en kort (enbart formell) placering på regeringskansliet blev han direktör på Skandia.


Nja det stämmer inte att han någonsin varit i den inre kretsen. Följer man Ebbes "karriär" blir helt andra saker tydliga. Hans egentliga start inom pressens värld kom när han började 68 på Sydsvenska Dagbladet umgicks han med bland annat Fredrik Roos (som dog i aids strax innan Ebbe), färska skådespelerskan Claire Wikholm och chefredaktören Olof Wahlgren som var mörkblå in i själen. Långt ifrån Sap:s kärna alltså.

1970 (efter mindre än 2 år på tidningen) blev han påkommen att spionera på sina journalistkollegor kartläggande deras politiska åsikter med rekommendationer om vilka som skull sparkas. Detta gjorde att han tvingades sluta.

Han började sedan som pressekreterare hos SACO men det blev också en kort sejor. Redan under 1971 hade han bytt till Göteborgs Handels- och Sjöfartstidnings redaktion i Stockholm som journalist med inriktning på arbetsmarknads och rikspolitik. Det var då han började hänga på regeringskansliet utan synbar anledning och inledde sin karriär med att skapa nätverk med privata fester. Palme själv hörde inte till kontakterna men väl hans presskontakter. Mest var det skvaller och lustifikationer och Palme lär ha deltgit enstaka gånger. Ebbe försökte via Sträng plantera iden om en socialdemokratisk veckotidning men LO ville inte finansiera den. Utåt sett försökte Ebbe ge sken av att ha betydligt bättre kontakter med OP än han hade. GHT (liberal/borgerlig) lades ned 73 och Ebbe jobbade då ett kort tag på Ekot innan han hamnade 1974 som informationssekereterare åt justitieminister Lennart Geijer och statsrådet Carl Lidbom. Inte heller detta blev långvarigt men Ebbe hann nästla sig in med Holmer och affärer som SKP avlyssningen, sjukhusspionaffären, Bordellaffären, Gjeijeraffären. Därvid fick han skott på OP då han var författaren bakom Palmes förnekanden. Ebbe jobbade då på samma våning som OP som fixare och underhuggare åt G och L. Redan året efter han börjat kom kritiken i samband med ockupationen av Västtyska Ambassaden. En Informationssekreterare som försökte ta kontrollen över polisaktioner direkt. I den vevan fick också Palme veta att Ebbe for med skvaller om honom själv på ett indiskret sätt.

Gunnar Sträng ordnade efter maktskiftet alltså att Ebbe fick jobb i Borås. Inte så märkligt att en så illuster kille som Ebbe med så många hemligheter och vänner fick en sådan reträttpost som var ganska undanskuffad. Från Palmes inre krets var han alltså utestängd helt. Totalt var hans "politiska" karriär alltså 1974-76.

De 10 år som följde bestod av arbete i provinsen (Borås) och från 79 via Ferm på Tidens förlag som Ebbe lyckades att haverera till konkursens brant innan 1984. Hans vän Susanne Bonnier gav honom då jobb på Bonnier Fakta. Ebbe underhöll dock sina kontakter. Troligen skedde det delvis via IB03 som han troligen ingått i sedan länge.


Nu skall man kanske vara lite försiktig med tolkningen av Skavlanintervjun och de uppgifter som kommer fram där men att Ebbe lobbat mot familjen utan att blinka efter att Palme var död säger ingenting annat än att Ebbe var Ebbe. OP diskuterade nog inte så mycket interna frågor (särskilt inte känsliga sådana med familjen) så ingången lär ha varit Lidbom och kanske Palmes vän Schein.

Nu är ju detta inte någon ubåtstråd så jag blir därför kortfattad med egna antaganden. Vill dock nu för första gången berätta att jag känt en person väldigt väl privat och som satt på Mälsten under Hårsfjärdenjakten och lyssnade på undervattensmikrofonerna när en farkost passerade ut och man förgäves sökte men fick nej på att få eldtillstånd med minorna. Allt spelades som vanligt in och sändes till Försvarsstaben. Sagesmannen hänvisar till sekretessavtal men har sagt att när detta går ut skall han berätta på vilket språk de panikartade konversationerna i farkosten fördes.

Mer "vet" jag inte men personen i fråga har alltid innehaft befattningar av viktig art.
Skulle tro sekretessen förlängts i och med ny sekretesslagstiftning samt att denne inte vill förstöra sin karriär.

Hursomhelst tror jag det inte skulle utgjort något hinder om det i senare skeden efter sovjets fall, skulle framkommit att det var på något öststatsspråk som konversationen fördes.

Tillägg: Caspar Weinberger som var USA´s försvarsminister då under Reagantiden, har ju i tv-intervju bekräftat att man övade med ubåtar i även svenska vatten.
Svar på våra frågor får vi bara om ytterligare information framkommer men det är nog lika nedtystat som sanningen bakom mordet på Palme.

En tredje effekt är den hydrodynamiska expansion du tydligen saknar begrepp om liksom vitsen med räfflat gevär av grövre kaliber istället för det höghastighetsvapen du börjat tjata om.

Ännu iskallt. Men det Polisiära utbytet emellan är något som är svårt att blunda för.