Mordet på Olof Palme - 28 februari 1986

Guard Fires at Gunmen Near U.S. Envoy
June 19, 1986

Newell was among two dozen dinner guests at industrialist Bo Johnson's mansion in Varmdo, a secluded area of villas, summer houses and forest along the coast east of Stockholm.



About 30 police officers with dogs and speedboats searched for the prowlers Wednesday.

When the Swedish police guard fired at the two men Tuesday night, Newell and the other guests were having cocktails on the terrace, police said.

Newell's bodyguard was conducting a routine search of the grounds about 8 p.m. when he spotted the men behind a fir hedge about 500 feet from the mansion, said Bengt Frih, police commissioner of the town of Nacka, where Varmdo is located.

The guard "felt threatened by the men," who pointed their guns at him, Frih said. The guard fired three shots at them from a distance of 100 feet, police said.

The bodyguard said the men were olive-skinned with dark, curly hair. They were both said to be wearing leather jackets.

The U.S. Embassy in Stockholm would not comment and referred all questions to police.

Newell, 36, became ambassador to Sweden in December. He worked for President Reagan's reelection campaign in 1984 and was one of several assistant secretaries of state in the Reagan Administration.

Married with five children, Newell is a leading member of the Mormon Church, and he caused resentment when he ruled that only soft drinks should be served at embassy staff parties, diplomats said. Wine is served at official dinners, however.
The attack caused minor damage but no injuries. No group claimed responsibility.

Johnson, 68, is a member of one of Sweden's richest families and heads Nordstjernan, a diversified company with interests in shipping, construction, steel and retail sales.

Attacks on public figures are extremely rare in Sweden. However, on Feb. 28, an unidentified assailant gunned down Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, 59, on a Stockholm street. The assassin has not been found.

desinformation ifrån Mossad:
Citat:
"The Mossad Operative Ari Ben-Menashe stated in his 1991 book 'Profits of War' that Palme was killed by the CIA as a result of his investigation into the American/Israeli and Bofors arms deals with Iran. he said that the death of Robert Maxwell was related to this. --Rolec Dubbing (talk) 17:31, 11 November 2009 (UTC)"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AAssassination_of_Olof_Palme

The Iran Pipeline: A Hidden Chapter/A special report.; U.S. Said to Have Allowed Israel to Sell Arms to Iran
By SEYMOUR M. HERSH,
Published: December 8, 1991
In interviews, several American arms dealers with ties to the C.I.A. said they knew Mr. Ben-Menashe as an Israeli intelligence operative who occasionally operated under diplomatic cover. Each assertion he made about the Israeli program to sell arms to Iran was verified with several other sources.

Mr. Ben Menashe said the covert Isreali operation in New York was moved to London in 1983 because Israeli officials feared that it had been compromised after a New York Times report in 1982 saying Iran was receiving American-made arms from Israel worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

After that report was published, its author, Leslie H. Gelb, interviewed a woman who worked in the covert New York office. She described it to Mr. Gelb. And when Mr. Ben Menashe also described it to him later, the two descriptions matched.
http://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/08/world/iran-pipeline-hidden-chapter-special-report-us-said-have-allowed-israel-sell.html?pagewanted=all