Mordet på Olof Palme - 28 februari 1986

Ursprungligen postat av Gothus

Gaddy smet undan Larouch-rörelsen illa kvickt efter MOP och vill nog inte förknippas med den i de sammanhang han verkar i nu.

An American who heads'the European Labor Party, which espouses many of LaRouche's ideas, disappeared after.Palme's death, Suall said. He said Swedish authorities asked his help in locating Clifford Gaddy and his wife Kerstin Tegin Gaddy in the United States, but that he was unable to do so.
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In early December 1973 the Swedish magazine Folket i Bild exposed an international espionage ring of approximately 15 agents in Sweden, involving CIA coordination of the Swedish Security Police [SAPO], the West German Federated Information Service [BND], and Israeli intelligence [Shin Bet]. This CIA-controlled counter-intelligence operation involved planting agent provocateurs in Swedish radical-left, Maoist, and refugee groups.
One of the exposed CIA agents was a Mr. Sven Kempe, a close associate of Mike Vale during his work with the Swedish deserter community in 1969. Kempe donated thousands of dollars to the deserters' movement and purchased a farm where groups of deserters stayed in Torksaker, about 100 miles north of Stockholm.
A wealthy "radical theologian," Kempe also housed several deserters in his house in Uppsala, where at least one deserter . . . committed suicide by setting himself on fire.
The NCLC Security Staff has independently confirmed that Hans Göran Franck, a Social Democratic lawyer who supposedly was Vale's factional enemy in Sweden, in fact organized Vale into the deserters' movement and gave him instructions and cover. Vale, using the name "John Armfield" while in Sweden, made extended visits to Kempe's farm to deal with "psychological conflicts" among deserters and to take charge of their "political education."

After the discovery of confidential documents and letters from the US Embassy found in the flat of a senior policeman from the aliens department of Stockholm's Police Headquarters. Police Commissioner Hans Melin was arrested on the 4th February by the Swedish Security Police (SAPO). Melin's arrest came after months of close scrutiny by SAPO who had suspected him of "freelancing" for Iraqi intelligence. . . . Melin was caught red-handed exchanging secret files on Iraqi and Palestinian refugees for three thousand dollars with an Iraqi "Foreign Official" who had flown in from Baghdad the same day.
Lennox continued:
It is not clear whether Melin had the same monetary agreement with the CIA but what is clear is the fact that he was routinely passing classified personal files on American deserters who had come to Sweden to escape from fighting in Vietnam. The information from these personal files was certainly valuable to the CIA. When a deserter came to Sweden and asked for political asylum he was first interrogated in depth by the police from Melin's department. Specific details of his escape route to Sweden were recorded. And of course this was immediately passed on to the CIA. It is therefore not surprising that in the early seventies deserters had problems coming to Europe.
Details of the deserters were not the only thing to interest the CIA during this time. From information contained in the material found in Melin's flat, the CIA were asking for details of Swedes who were ever active within the Vietnam movement. Apparently it is this which has really upset the Swedish authorities the most.
Lennox later writes about the ADC:
It was this committee which was the main target of the CIA. And it was here that Hans Melin helped the CIA to infiltrate two of their own agents under cover as deserters. The Swedish press in the late sixties and early seventies wrote many stories of "alleged" CIA activity within the ADC. One such story featured two Americans who suddenly appeared in 1971 with their pockets full of hash and dollars. Shortly after their arrival many of the deserters were appearing at press conferences with huge joints in their hands. This did not go. down too well with the politically-minded Swedes. Nor surprisingly the image of the deserter soon turned sour.
The two "deserters" were eventually neutralized by the more active members of the ADC in a press expose. Michael Vale and Bill Jones are their names and whether or not they were in fact officially CIA is still not clear. However, after the press expose, they left Sweden for Wiesbaden in West Germany where they became active in the European Labour Committee.