Mordet på Olof Palme - 28 februari 1986

Maj Gen Chris Thirion, who was head of military intelligence in the last years of the apartheid era, told Björkdahl on camera in 2015 he believed South Africa was responsible for the Palme killing.

“I think so, yes,” Thirion said. “I’m sorry to say it but yes.” (...)

In October 2015, Björkdahl also met a serving general in military intelligence in Johannesburg, who gave him names of South African operatives allegedly involved in the Palme killing, and offered to cooperate with the Swedish investigation in return for immunity for those involved.

“He told me that South Africa was willing to negotiate with Sweden and so he asked me to go back home to Sweden and give that reply to Swedish intelligence,” Björkdahl said.

He handed over all his research in Stockholm, and passed on the message about a possible immunity deal.

“It was very naive I thought, but what I tried to do was to try to facilitate the discussion between South Africa and Sweden, so that Sweden would give immunity against prosecution with the condition that the team who carried out the assassination, come forward and present the evidence.”

“The need to know is greater than the need to punish,” Björkdahl said.