Mordet på Olof Palme - 28 februari 1986

It does seem incred*i*ble that the pub*lic at large do not know more of an orga*ni*za*tion of this bru*tal*ity and extent, but, it fits with the meth*ods the WACL orga*ni*za*tion oper*ates by. One can find no firm com*mand chan*nels when an action is to be taken. The plan*ning is not car*ried out by any sin*gle group, but through a labyrinthine cell-system. It allows infor*ma*tion on a given mur*der con*tract to flow through dif*fer*ent chan*nels until they arrive at the req*ui*site action groups.
These action groupsk often with*out now*ing of each other, then arrange the escape routes and assist with weaons, false pass*ports and assas*sins. Simul*ta*ne*ously, oth*ers arrange dis*in*for*ma*tion cam*paigns which can be put into effect if and when nec*es*sary. The recur*ring petern is that the men behind the scenes draw upon the local group in the coun*try where the mur*der will take place., thereby reduc*ing the risk of the mur*der plot being traced back to the orig*i*na*tors of the hit, lurk*ing else*where in the shad*ows.
There is noth*ing that pre*vents the WACL net*work, despite its far right con*vic*tions, from mak*ing con*tact with left*ist ori*ented groups hav*ing the cor*rect reli*gious or nation*al*is*tic aims. Reli*gion and nation*al*ism are often more impor*tant for these groups than their place*ment along the polit*i*cal spec*trum. Thus, they can be manip*u*lated by the promise of weapons in exchange for assassinations.
Nowhere did abhor*rence for Palme thrive quite so strongly as among WACL mem*bers. It was an old hatred, stem*ming from Viet*nam War days. It increased with Palme’s sup*port for both Cuba nd Chile under Allende and later his sup*port of the San*din*istas in Nicaragua. This hatred was held with a passion.
In the last year, it has come out that per*sons with con*nec*tions to WACL prob*a*bly had, in the months lead*ing up to Palme’s death, even more with which to feed their hate.
Today, many hings point toward a host of pow*er*ful per*sons with long*time WACL con*nec*tions hav*ing been involved in Bofors’ exten*sive weapons smug*gling to Iran. When Palme, a short time before his death, con*sid*ered stop*ping these Bofors deal*ings with Iran, these peo*ple pre*sum*ably then had an obvi*ous eco*nomic and ide*o*log*i*cal mtove to stop him. And, in such an instance, as so often before, they would avail them*selves of WACL.
In this con*nec*tion, one fact is very impor*tant: the peo*ple that were involved in the Iran*ian weapons deals, had ear*lier had con*nec*tions to Con*dor. In 1976, the Con*dor orga*ni*za*tion had con*demned Palme to death. One of the men involved and the most cen*tral, is named Theodore Shackley.
Shack*ley was the leader behind some of the CIA’s largest and most bloody actions of the 1960’s and ’70’s. He, together with close col*lab*o*ra*tors, was respon*si*ble for the cam*paigns of death in Laos, Viet*nam and South Amer*ica. They are sworn WACL sup*port*ers. Yet, today hav*ing offi*cially left the CIA, his pow*ers are stronger than ever. He was, with his team, behind the Iran/Contra Scan*dal, for one example.
Shack*ley is a com*pletely unique per*son, with a power that seems almost incom*pre*hen*si*ble. He is the man that stood behind a long suc*ces*sion of the CIA’s most bloody and ille*gal operaions begin*ning in the early 1960’s. Dur*ing a light*ning twenty-five year career in the CIA, he made him*self a leg*endary rep*u*ta*tionl Shack*ley came to be called the “Blond Ghost” because of the secre*tive*ness sur*round*ing him. Shackley’s con*tri*bu*tions to the efforts of the Cen*tral Intel*li*gence Agency have been so gret that they have even been des*ig*nated as a kind of “invis*i*ble gov*ern*ment.” Of course, he has not oper*ated entirely on his own ini*tia*tive. There is a basis to his power. A polit*i*cal and eco*nomic ‘shadow land’ with appar*ently enor*mous owers has had a use for him. Who they are, pre*cisely, can not be known, but Shack*ley is a per*son with enor*mous skills and an unchal*lenged orga*ni*za*tional capa*bil*ity. It is said, that among other things he’s done, he car*ried out those for*eign poli*cies that the “offi*cial” Amer*i*can gov*ern*ment did not want to be seen as hav*ing con*nec*tions to.
All who have worked under Shack*ley in the CIA have said they were afraid of him. Some were so fear*ful, that they tried to have as lit*tle to do with him as pos*si*ble. Oth*ers, have had a nearly fanatic sense of loy*alty to him . . . . also ased on fear. He is described as arro*gant and as hav*ing a com*plete lack of scru*ples in his war against com*mu*nism. The enor*mous toll in lives his oper*a*tions have taken have earned him the addi*tional nick*name of “The Butcher.”
In 1961, at only thirty-six, Shack*ley was already the CIA’s sta*tion chief in Miami. The Miami sta*tion was the most impor*tant and largest sta*tion out*side of the Lan*g*ley, Vir*ginia Head*quar*ters. His clos*est col*leagues were agents Thomas Clines and David Atlee Phillips, who would remain his loyal assis*tants through*out the years. To carry out his ter*ror*ist actions, he recruited Cuban exiles from Mafia boss Santo Trafficante’s nar*cotics orga*ni*za*tion. Traf*fi*cante sup*plied both per*son*nel and exper*tise for Oper*a*tion Mon*goose, the CIA’s secret war against Cas*tro and Cuba in the early 1960’s. He also took part, per*son*ally, in the plan*ning of the CIA’s assas*si*na*tion attempts against Castro.
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Traf*fi*cante was the USA’s largest nar*cotics importer and, it was he who sup*pos*edly gave Shack*ley the idea of financ*ing the most sen*si*tive oper*a*tions with nar*cotics prof*its, some*thing that would soon become Shackley’s spe*cialty. Later, when Shack*ley was trans*ferred to Laos, he allied him*self with the heroin gen*eral, Vang Pao and the war*riors of Vang Pao’s Meo tribes. The link to the CIA’s infa*mous war in Laos was a death cam*paign in which tens of thou*sands of men, women and chil*dren were killed by the Meo sol*diers along with Amer*i*can Green Berets from the Spe*cial Oper*a*tions Group, under the lead*er*ship of Gen*eral John Singlaub. Under Singlaub there worked a young lieu*tenant, Oliver North, and also an Air Force lieu*tenant major, Richard Sec*ord. All three would become lead*ing fig*ures in the Iran/Contra affair twenty years later. Singlaub was, at that gen*eral period of time, world direc*tor of WACL.
The cam*paign of death in Laos was con*trolled by Shack*ley. Shack*ley, North, Sec*ord and the oth*ers who worked together there have come to be known as the “Secret Team.” [This term derived from a book by Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty and was adopted by the Chris*tic Insti*tute in their ill-fated RICO suit against some of the prin*ci*pals in the Iran-Contra affair.–D.E.] After a while, Shack*ley became the CIA’s chief of sta*tion in Viet*nam. He was later called home in 1972 by his supe*ri*ors to steer the CIA’s secret oper*a*tions in Latin Amer*ica. He con*tin*ued his incred*i*ble career and became the chief of Oper*a*tion Track II. Track II was a cam*paign of sab*o*tage and ter*ror that led to Allende’s over*throw in Chile and Pinochet’s takeover of power. That was the “starter’s gun,” the begin*ning of the CIA’s con*trol of, and engage*ment in death and ter*ror cam*paigns through*out South Amer*ica. Shack*ley arranged for the train*ing of Cuban exiles in ter*ror*ism, who then trav*eled around assist*ing death patrols in tor*ture and mur*der. Both the death squads and the anti-Castro Cuban exiles had con*nec*tions to WACL. Then some began to won*der when Asians began to appear among the death patrols. It soon became appar*ent that these were some of the Meo war*riors Shack*ley had trained in Laos.
Shadow Man*age*ment
Nat*u*rally, the financ*ing of thaqt exten*sive project did not coe from the offi*cial CIA. Sev*eral of Shackley’s Cuban exiles estab*lished a huge bank*ing sys*tem – World Finance Cor*po*ra*tion – in Miami where Nafia boss Trafficante’s money was laun*dered and then chan*neled into Con*dor and the Cuban exile’s ter*ror groups, such as Alpha-66, Oega-7 and CORU. The bank*ing sys*tem was exposed and forced to close its doors after a police inves*ti*ga*tion in the begin*ning of 1979. The police*man who headed the inquiry was stopped by the CIA, but before he was muzzeled, he was able to tell the press that not less than twenty-eight CIA agents had worked in the bank.8
The Secret Team had also oper*ated another bank, the Nugan-Hand Bank in Aus*tralia, with over forty affil*i*ates around the world. The bank was prin*ci*pally used for weapons and nar*cotics trans*ac*tions. The names of the com*pa*nies which had done busi*ness via the bank came out in 1982 when a large Aus*tralian gov*ern*ment report dis*closed infor*ma*tion about the bank. One of these firms was Bofors, the Swedish weapons man*u*fac*turer. That was the first time that Bofors’ name had been con*nected with the Shack*ley crowd.9
By the id-1970’s Shack*ley had been made deputy chief of covert oper*a*tions world*wide in the CIA. Later, all of his staff was fired by the new CIA direc*tor, Stans*field Turner. Eight hun*dred men were offi*cially tossed out of the Cen*tral Intel*li*gence Agency. In 1977 Turner had been appointed by the new Pres*i*dent, Jimmy Carter, in place of the ear*lier direc*tor, George Bush. Jimmy Carter had not cared for Shackley’s meth*ods. He was par*tic*u*larly indig*nant over a scan*dal which had worked its way into the Amer*i*can mass media by that time. It had been dis*closed that two of Shackley’s com*pa*tri*ots had trained ter*ror*ists in Libya. That was soon to be a bit of a let*down for Shack*ley, who’s star, oth*er*wise, shone brightly. He had specif*i*cally been promised the post of Direc*tor of the Cen*tral Intel*li*gence Agency, if Ford had won the presidency.
But Shack*ley, appar*ently, was too indis*pen*si*ble and pow*er*ful to just be fired in any ordi*nary man*ner. He had pro*ceeded out*side of the Agency in such a man*ner, that today, it is very dif*fi*cult to tell what is his ‘Secret team’ and what is offi*cial CIA. Appar*ently, they couldn’t man*age with*out an entire division’s expe*ri*ence and exper*tise. Shack*ley and his team were now more active behind the scenes than they had been at any time before.
Shackley’s close asso*ciate, David Atlee Phillips headed the Asso*ci*a*tion of For*mer Intel*li*gence Offi*cers (AFIO), which cae to func*tion in some cases as an intel*li*gence ser*vice for WACL. One of the two from Shackley’s corps that trained ter*ror*ists in Libya was the cur*rent fugi*tive, Frank Ter*pil. He once said to a jour*nal*ist: “It is in real*ity the ass*holes from AFIO that run the CIA from the out*side, as a shadow lead*er*ship: Ted Shack*ley, Phillips, Angle*ton, Conein…”
Shack*ley had (and has), well in order, his world of ‘behind the scenes’ polit*i*cal oper*a*tions. The most impor*tant sup*port group is the Amer*i*can Secu*rity Coun*cil. It rep*re*sents the United States’ military-industrial-complex and con*sti*tutes the major por*tion of the USA’s rep*re*sen*ta*tion in WACL.
Shackley’s group finances its oper*a*tions with weapons and nar*cotics smug*gling. Simul*ta*ne*ous with those oper*a*tions, his oper*a*tives strug*gle in their sav*age war against left*ist forces of the entire face of the earth. Slowly, but surely, they have built up an amaz*ing shadow-land eco*nomic base, which resem*bles a multi-national corporation.
The net*work through which these oper*a*tions take place is called ‘The Enter*prise’. The lead fig*ures, in addi*tion to Shack*ley him*self, are Thomas Clines, Richard Sec*ord and Albert Hakim. These names also come from the top of the lists of Iran/Contra Hearing’s wit*nesses. The Enter*prise has a plethora of small com*pa*nies. Some, Shack*ley ownes on paper; oth*ers list him as a con*sul*tant or as an offi*cer on the board of directors.
In fact, it was Shackley’s team that started the entire Iran*gate scan*dal. Among the many places in which this has been estab*lished is in the Tower Report. Shack*ley has con*ceded that it was he who met with the Iran*ian weapons and nar*cotics dealer, Ghor*ban*i*far, in Ham*berg. Also, that it was he who brought the Iran*ian pro*posal on an exchange of hostages for weapons to Wash*ing*ton. The Enter*prise was con*nected to the weapons deals that came out of this, in fact. Part of the money from Iran wound up going to the Nicaraguan Con*tras. Another por*tion drifted directly into the pock*ets of Enter*prise per*son*nel, and a por*tion has van*ished into the blue . ...
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The real drama in the Iran/Contra scan*dal did not come out in the Wash*ing*ton hear*ings, which were trans*mit*ted to the world’s tele*vi*sion screens. In the hear*ings only a lit*tle was unveiled. Florida was the ‘hap*pen*ing’ place, even though this was in rel*a*tive pub*lic silence. A huge law*suit was being pre*pared in Florida involv*ing large scale cocaine smug*gling in con*nec*tion with Iran/Contra. This, of course, involved the Shack*ley peo*ple. The legal case was left to drift and then was stopped by Edward Meese, Reagan’s Attor*ney Gen*eral. ... Simul*ta*ne*ously, there arose a civil suit against the same Shack*ley crowd and the ear*lier WACL chief, John Singlaub, for the bomb*ing and assas*si*na*tion attempt on for*mer Con*tra leader Eden Pas*tora. Seven peo*ple were killed in the bomb*ing, includ*ing four jour*nal*ists.
One of the main wit*nesses in the two cases was Gene Wheaton, a for*mer high level U.S. mil*i*tary intel*li*gence offi*cer. He was sta*tioned at an impor*tant post in Iran dur*ing the late 1970’s.
He, together with two col*legues, just hap*pened across the ille*gal trans*ac*tions of Shackley’s bunch in the Mid*dle East and then pre*pared a report on these activ*i*ties. When Wheaton’s two col*legues were on their way to Wash*ing*ton with the report, they were very con*ve*niently mur*dered, and the report van*ished. Since the mur*ders, Wheaton has used his spare time to seek addi*tional evi*dence against the Enterprisers.
The pri*mary author of this arti*cle talked with Wheaton in his Los Ange*les home in March of 1987, before he tes*ti*fied as a wit*ness. At that time, Wheaton had a list con*tain*ing sev*en*teen names, which he was cer*tain, rep*re*sented per*sons mur*dered by the Enter*prise group through*out the years. Among those listed was a for*mer CIA agent, Kevin Mulc*ahy. Mulc*ahy died the day before he would have given tes*ti*mony in the law*suit against World Finance Cor*po*ra*tion, the narco-banking sys*tem. WFC laun*dered nar*cotics money and then trans*fered it to Shackley’s Cuban exile ter*ror*ists around Latin Amer*ica. Mulc*ahy was found in a Mary*land woods, not far from where the motel where he was secretly wait*ing for the trial. His body was found with his pants down around his ankles.
“I am myself as right-wing as the peo*ple in Shackley’s team”, said Wheaton. “I can accept much of what they do. But not the mur*der of collegues.”
Gene Wheaton’s life has been threat*ened by the Shack*ley squad. He has responded by shar*ing his infor*ma*tion with as many peo*ple as pos*si*ble. In this man*ner he hopes to dimin*ish the like*li*hood of his becom*ing a tar*get for assassination.
Since the inter*view, Wheaton has addi*tion*ally sworn out depo*si*tions stat*ing that Shack*ley has a covert firm located on Andros Island in the Bahamas. This ‘firm’ trains assassins.
Wheaton’s list of 17 mur*dered peo*ple appears not to have been com*plete. Dur*ing pre*lim*i*nary inves*ti*ga*tions for the Miami trial alone, four new wit*nesses died. The smug*gler and pilot, Barry Seal, was shot down. A sim*i*lar thing hap*pened to the world famous speed*boat builder, Don Arnow. They both had had close con*nec*tions with cocaine smug*gler George Morales. Another chief wit*ness, Steven Carr, was found dead of a drug over*dose and so on and so forth……
These wit*nesses could have been dan*ger*ous to Shackley’s group. For exam*ple, they could have sub*stan*ti*ated the accu*sa*tions about nar*cotics. They could have ver*i*fied that the very air*planes that flew weapons from Florida to the Con*tras in Costa Rica and Hon*duras returned with cocaine. Accord*ing to the arrested smug*glers, it was some of Shackley’s Cuban-exile weapons trans*porters that headed weapons smug*gling to the Contras.
Con*nec*tions to Bofors
Today it is still too early to say if it was in fact Olof Palme’s attempts to stop fur*ther smug*gling of weapons which cost him his life, in much the same man*ner as the four Miami trial wit*nesses. Palme had tried to stop Bofors’s exten*sive weapons trans*fers to Iran.
There is much, how*ever, that indi*cates that a close con*nec*tion between Bofors and the Enter*prise play*ers existed:
–As was men*tioned before, Bofors had done busi*ness via the ille*gal Aus*tralian Nugan-Hand Bank. A bank that by 1977 chiefly dealt in weapons and nar*cotics money. The bank was man*aged by Enter*prise personnel.
–The Dan*ish ship, Erria, which smug*gled Bofors’ weapons to both Iran and the Con*tras, was owned by Dolmy Busi*ness Inc. Behind Dolmy stood two from within the Enter*prise, Richard Sec*ord and Albert Hakim.
–Bor*fors trans*ferred 188 mil*lion kro*ner ...to the Pana*man*ian com*pany, Sven*ska Incor*po*rated. The leader of this firm was the noto*ri*ous drug and weapons smug*gler, Steven Samos. He was a close busi*ness part*ner of the the peo*ple in the Enter*prise and deeply involved in the Con*tra*gate Scan*dal. Part of the money is known to have, almost cer*tainly, been employed for bribes in con*nec*tion with Bofors’ multi-million dol*lar deals with India. Steve Samos also led another com*pany, Inter*na*tional Man*age*ment & Trust Corp.11 This was a ‘cover’ firm, which did not func*tion. Instead, its employ*ees worked in Amal*ga*mated Com*mer*cial Enter*prises. A por*tion of the Enterprise’s sup*port to the Con*tras went through Amal*ga*mated Com*mer*cial Enterprises
–The Bofors weapons which Iran had bought through Swedish weapons dealer Karl-Erik Smitz were often trans*ported on the planes of St. Lucia Air*ways, which was oper*ated Enter*prise folks and directed with help fro Oliver North.
If the Enter*prise ben*e*fited finan*cially from the Bofors deliv*er*ies, and if Olaf Palme attempted to stop these deliv*er*ies of weapons and thus the money stream from Bofors, then would have Shack*ley and his men had quite a motive to mur*der the Swedish Prime Min*is*ter. In such a case, they would prob*a*bly have used the WACL net*work, as they had so often before. They would have had a ‘here-and-now’ need to remove him. They are so skill*ful at such things, that they could have arranged it quickly.
*When Olof Palme was mur*dered, there sat in a Swedish prison, a man with an inti*mate knowl*edge of Con*dor and WACL. His orga*ni*za*tion had pre*vi*ously threat*ened to mur*der the entire Palme fam*ily. Despite that, the Swedish police are only now begin*ning to become inter*ested in Miro Baresic. This inter*est comes over one year after Baresic had been released and had boarded a flight to Paraguay.*
When Palme was mur*dered, an inter*na*tional ter*ror*ist and mur*derer com*plete with an enour*mous knowl*edge of Con*dor and WACL was right in Sweden.
Ten years ear*lier, when a death*list, com*plete with Palme’s name its top, cir*cu*lated among the Con*dor crowd in Latin Amer*ica, this man found him*self high up in the Con*dor hier*ar*chy. His name is Miro Baresic. His story is noth*ing short of fantastic.
Baresic is an extreme right-wing Croa*t*ian who is con*nected to the WACL orga*ni*za*tion through ABN (Anti-Bolshevic Bloc of Nations). ABN is an orga*ni*za*tion that col*lab*o*rated with the Nazis dur*ing the Sec*ond World War.
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On the 7th of April 1971, in Stock*holm, Baresic together with another Croa*t*ian, tor*tured and then mur*dered the Yugosla*vian ambas*sador to Swe*den. On this first time around, Baresic didn’t suc*ceed in escap*ing Swedish author*i*ties. He was arrested, but before the trial, the murderer’s com*rades threat*ened to mur*der Palme, his wife Lis*bet and their three chil*dren, if the mur*der*ers’ sen*tences are greater than five years in prison. The treats were taken very seri*ously. When Palme spoke to the May Day rally in Nor*rkop*ing, Swe*den, he was sur*rounded by a ver*i*ta*ble army of secu*rity people.
The two Croa*t*ians were sen*tenced to life impris*on*ment. Fol*low*ing that they man*aged to escape from Kumla Prison, but were caught and jailed again. Then in Sep*tem*ber 1972 their com*rades seized an SAS plane in Malmo, Swe*den. The world’s eyes were riv*eted on the hostage drama. Some*time later the world heard from the Croa*t*ian ter*ror*ists: The two ambas*sado*r*ial mur*der*ers and an addi*tional five other impris*oned Croa*t*ians must be sur*ren*dered. Oth*er*wise, they threat*ened to blow up the plane with the 86 pas*sen*gers aboard. The Swedish gov*ern*ment saw no other way out except to yield, and the two mur*der*ers were brought aboard the plane.
The SAS pilots were forced to fly to Spain. There, the Croa*t*ians were at first impris*oned. But the right*ist gov*ern*ment of Franco refused to sur*ren*der them up to Swe*den, and in the begin*ning of 1974 they were given per*mis*sion to travel to the terrorist’s par*adise of Paraguay. There they quickly con*nected up with a Croa*t*ian WACL group that func*tioned there as a death squadron.12
... He began to work directly under Condor’s infa*mous chief within Paraguay, Pas*tor Coro*nel, the head of the Secu*rity Police. Coro*nel is a hor*ri*fy*ing gen*tle*man, whose police force has spe*cial*ized in the advanced tor*ture tech*niques. An Amer*i*can lawyer relates this macabre incident:
One time, Coro*nel had a really ‘fat’ catch: a leader of the small ille*gal com*mu*nist party. Coro*nel had the com*mu*nist brought directly into his office, where he promptly shot him twice in the head with his Mag*num. Coro*nel then ordered the head cut off and took it to the Pres*i*den*tial Palace. His mes*sage was clear – he wanted to demon*strate how effi*cient he was at main*tain*ing the nation free from com*mu*nists.13
So it was to Coro*nel, that Baresic became the right hand. Coro*nel is his country’s rep*re*sen*ta*tive to WACL, and par*tic*i*pates eagerly in the orga*ni*za*tions meet*ings. Baresic was made the chief instruc*tor for Coronel’s agents. By this time he had changed his name to Tony Saric, so he could travel freely.
The mur*derer Tony Saric, alias Miro Baresic, was then about to become a big gun. Coro*nel had full con*fi*dence in him, and at the end of 1977 Baresic came to the United States on a diplo*matic pass*port. He became, noth*ing less than, the chief of secu*rity for Paraguay’s embassy in Wash*ing*ton, D.C. He also was made the per*sonal body*guard to Ambas*sador Esco*bar, who was also a WACL delegate.
But Baresic’s story is not over yet. At the leg*endary WACL con*fer*ence held in Wash*ing*ton, D.C. from the 27th – 30th of April 1978, Saric appeared as the Croa*t*ian del*e*gate. The yearly WACL con*fer*ences have a rep*u*ta*tion of being a frame*work for the great*est show*ings of inter*na*tional ter*ror*ists, neo-Nazis and fas*cists since the Sec*ond World War. They swarm with right-wing extrem*ists. At that con*fer*ence, for exam*ple, there were twenty-one del*e*gates from the Cuban exile ter*ror group, Alpha-66, alone. Also in atten*dance were a series of Swedish right-wing extrem*ists, who we will meet fur*ther on in this article.
Exit With*out Escort
Two years later, things start to go wrong for Tony Saric. After hav*ing just won a large karate com*pe*ti*tion in the United States he jubu*lently ran around the arena with a Croa*t*ian flag. ...con*nec*tions to Paraguay. When they returned to the FBI head*quar*ters in Wash*ing*ton, D.C. they dove into the exten*sive files, and after some hunt*ing around, were shocked to dis*cover that Saric was iden*ti*cal with the wanted mur*derer and ter*ror*ist, Miro Baresic.
The ham*mer fell, Baresic was arrested and, after one year, he was returned to Swe*den. But he was, evi*dently, no ordi*nary pris*oner. In prison he was a celebrity. When it was announced he was about to marry a Swedish woman, there was talk that he would be released. Accord*ing to Swedish press reports, a ‘diplomat-like’ man who trav*elled in a big car pre*sented hi quan*ti*ties of dol*lars as a wed*ding gift. Who that man was, is a story not yet unrav*eled. How*ever, it is an indis*putable fact that the ter*ror*ist and mur*derer Baresic has been granted leave from prison many times, ...
Later, in Decem*ber of 1987, Miro Baresic was released and together with his wife boarded a flight to his beloved Paraguay.
Miro Baresic is an inter*est*ing fig*ure because of the infor*ma*tion he could have pro*vided the Swedish police regard*ing WACL and Con*dor. Fur*ther*more, he was of inter*est because of an intu*itive feel*ing on the part of Lis*bet Palme imme*di*ately after the mur*der. She told the Swedish press that she felt her hus*band was mur*dered by Croa*t*ian ter*ror*ists, and that she had a feel*ing that there was some*thing famil*iar about the murderer.
Only now are the Swedish police begin*ning, seri*ously, to turn their atten*tion toward the Croa*t*ian right-wing extrem*ists. This, after Baresic has been released. And, released despite the fact that his cir*cles ear*lier had been con*nected with Swedish ter*ror*ist actions and mur*der; includ*ing hav*ing threat*ened to liq*ui*date the entire Palme fam*ily. The author*i*ties had not noticed that the same cir*cles were closely linked to the Latin Amer*i*can groups that had had Palme on their deathlist.
Just now a group of Swedish police are in West Ger*many to inves*ti*gate some of the Croa*t*ian exiles who belong to the Ustasja cir*cles around Baresic.
One thing is cer*tainly thought pro*vok*ing: Baresic, the mur*derer and ter*ror*ist has only served seven years of his sen*tence, at a time when the world was tak*ing such a hard line against terrorists.
Only now, just as this arti*cle is being writ*ten (12/88), it has been learned that Baresic had leave on Feb*ru*ary 28, 1986 – the very day that Palme as mur*dered! What occu*pied his time that day is not known. His Croa*t*ian friends have pro*vided him with an alibi.
Also recently dis*closed is that Yugoslavia had repeat*edly and unsuc*cess*fully pressed to have Baresic extra*dited. Instead, he was given his free*dom in 1987, and flew off to Paraguay.
Sev*eral times before Pale’s mur*der, Baresic had pre*sented peti*tions for clemency. These requests were blocked by Palme, who inter*vened per*son*ally, accord*ing to the Swedish Social Demo*c*ra*tic paper, Afton*bladet. Leniency came after Palme’s assassination.
*The broad and multi-branched WACL net*work has sup*port*ers world-wide. When Olof Palme was killed, four Scan*di*na*vian WACL adher*ants with exper*tise in get*away routes and deep con*nec*tions into the Swedish police could have been found in Swe*den. While, it should be empha*sized that this does not con*sti*tute proof of any direct con*nec*tion to the mur*der, it is sug*ges*tive of what ought to be investigated.*
The Baresic trail leads directly into the WACL net*work. All of the Croa*t*ian exiles around Baresic were WACL peo*ple and part of the same labyrinthine under*world which Shack*ley and the Iran/Contra team had drawn upon. The Bofors trail also leads into WACL.
This, how*ever, is not the only trail with Swedish con*nec*tions that points toward WACL. At the time of the Palme mur*der, two neo-Nazis with inter*na*tional get*away route exper*tise and con*nec*tions to WACL, were in Sweden.
We need to back*wind the cal*en*dar to April, 1978, when the infa*mous Wash*ing*ton, D.C. WACL con*fer*ence was in session.
As men*tioned pre*vi*ously, Baresic was present under the pseu*do*nym Tony Saric. Despite that, any must have rec*og*nized him. Aong those who no doubt did, were two Swedes, Ake J. Ek and Anders Lars*son, as well as the Nor*we*gian, Tor Pet*ter Had*land. The remain*der of this arti*cle will deal with these three Scan*di*na*vian con*nec*tions. We will take the in turn: Tor Pet*ter Had*land first along with his con*nec*tions to another Nor*we*gian Nazi, Erik Blucher.
Had*land was the leader of the Nor*we*gian neo-Nazi party’s group, the Nor*we*gian Front Stormtroop*ers. When the Nor*we*gian Front Stormtroop*ers began in 1977 to appear in con*nec*tions to WACL, it was Had*land who rep*re*sented these Nor*we*gian Nazis at the WACL meet*ings held around the world. Had*land was Erik Blucher’s right-hand man. Blucher as leader of the Nor*we*gian neo-Nazis had sev*eral times been involved in scan*dals involv*ing both mil*i*tary train*ing of young neo-Nazis and ille*gal weapons in Norway.
In 1979, along with Had*land And other Euro*pean Nazis, Blucher attempted to stage a power coup within the Euro*pean branch of WACL. A more ‘mod*er*ate’ group, how*ever, was vic*to*ri*ous. The two neo-Nazis were forced to leave WACL offi*cially, but con*tin*ued to work within WACL behind the scenes.
Then in ’81, Blucher’s and Hadland’s paths diverge for two years. Had*land took up res*i*dence in Ore*bro, Swe*den and Blucher trav*eled to Lon*don, where he quickly con*tacted the neo-Nazi cir*cles who had oper*ated a getaway-route-central called Brown Aid. This escape route cen*ter helped, among oth*ers, twenty-three Ital*ian ter*ror*ists. Two of these Ital*ians had been sought in con*nec*tion with the mas*sive bomb*ing of the Bologna train sta*tion in Italy.

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This getaway-routing cen*ter was exposed in 1981 by the British tele*vi*sion sta*tion, Granada. After the expo*sure, the cen*ter needed both a new inter*na*tional get*away ‘travel’ sec*re*tary found and to be built up again. Accord*ing to British sources, Erik Blucher became that new secretary.
In 1983 the Eng*lish police had started to sus*pect Blucher, and he trav*eled to Swe*den where his old friend, Tor Pat*ter Had*land, had pro*cured him an apart*ment. Blucher signed his name as Erik Olsen.
Exactly what Blucher, the escape route expert, and Had*land, the orga*nizer, did after that, we can only spec*u*late about. Cer*tain of the cir*cum*stances sur*round*ing their fur*ther move*ments are unknown, but it has been pos*si*ble to sketch and out*line of them:
In Novem*ber of 1984, Tor Pet*ter Had*land aban*doned Ore*bro and fled to an apart*ment... in Stockholm’s sub*urb of Han*den. Blucher often had stayed at the same addrescas.
Less than one year later, in Sep*tem*ber 1985, Blucher was liv*ing in ... in Hels*ing*borg .... This address is not far from the bor*der cross*ing point to Den*mark, although Blucher was never there.
Blucher, addi*tion*ally, estab*lished a firm named Edel*weiss Sur*vival. He main*tained a post box in .., Den*mark. ... Per*haps it was a coin*ci*dence that the get*away route expert, Blucher, had apart*ments and post box addresses in Stock*holm and on the bor*der between Swe*den and Den*mark, per*haps not.15
...in 1985 that a secret cen*ter for Euro*pean neo-Nazi activ*i*ties had been estab*lished in Stock*holm. For*mer WACL peo*ple were involved. Some evi*dence indi*cated that Had*land and Blucher were involved.
Whether or not they had any*thing to do with the mur*der of Olof Palme on the 28th of Feb*ru*ary, 1986 is not known. It does seem strange, though, that none of the Swedish author*i*ties had any inter*est in the two Nazi’s exper*tise in escape routes inter*na*tion*ally and of their orga*ni*za*tional capa*bil*i*ties. One thing, how*ever, we do know:
Three months after the death of Palme, Had*land gave notice on his apart*ment out*side of Stock*holm and moved home to Nor*way. At the same time, Blucher once again changed his name (to Tor Erik Nielsen) and give notice at his apart*ment in Hels*ing*borg. The get*away route experts had found new pastures.
Warn*ing
Another inter*est*ing devel*op*ment par*al*leled the activ*i*ties of Blucher and Had*land. It took place around yet another WACL big*wig, the Swedish Anders Lars*son. We turn back the clock to 1978 to the WACL con*fer*ence in D.C. for the last time when (??) both Tor Pet*ter Had*land and Miro Baresic (under the false name of Tony Saric) were in atten*dance. Anders Lars*son also was at this Wash*ing*ton con*fer*ence of WACL.