February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Secret_service":
Politics: 9 Nov 11
Sweden's justice minister Beatrice Ask has indicated that she is prepared to discuss the opening the Stasi archive of Swedish security service Säpo in response to calls for more transparency over the classified files.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 11
Like many other high-profile murders, the killing of Olof Palme has spawned more than it's fair share of conspiracy theories, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers.
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Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 11
Twenty-five years after Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was gunned down in central Stockholm, many Swedes still consider the murder an open wound, the AFP's Nina Larsson discovers.
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Society: 12 Dec 10
A Stockholm-based imam on Sunday condemned the two explosions which targeted holiday shoppers in the Swedish capital, killing one person in a what has been called a terrorist crime.
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National: 29 May 10
A cleric based in Sweden has been accused by Uzbek state television of instigating a suicide attack on the US embassy in 2004, as well as directing a series of high-profile killings last year.
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National: 31 Mar 10
A former Russian spy commander, Sergei Tretyakov, has accused a Swedish diplomat of having handed classified documents over to the Russian secret service following his recruitment at the end of the 1990s.
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Society: 3 Aug 09
Former US president John F. Kennedy had an affair with a Swedish flight attendant, according to a new book based on interviews with current and former Secret Service agents.
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National: 30 Jan 09
Three academics who demanded to see the source material behind a controversial new report on religious and political extremism in the Malmö suburb of Rosengård have been told that the material no longer exists.
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National: 23 Dec 08
Carl Lundström, one of four men awaiting trial for involvement with file sharing site The Pirate Bay, is among a dozen Swedes at the heart of a tax authorities investigation into funds stashed in a bank trust in Lilliput tax haven Liechtenstein.
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National: 24 Oct 08
Assistance from the US Secret Service led to the indictment on Thursday of a Swedish man suspected of involvement in the ShadowCrew cybercrime network.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Oct 08
Sweden means many different things to many different people. Just ask the United States Secret Service, writes Olle Wästberg, director-general of the Swedish Institute.
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Analysis & Opinion: 20 Aug 08
The most popular work of crime fiction ever published in Sweden is never likely to win a Nobel Prize. But it should, argues Jeanne Rudbeck, who is left spellbound by Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy.
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National: 6 Sep 07
Greece's communication privacy watchdog on Wednesday fined the Greek branch of Swedish telecom equipment giant Ericsson 7.36 million euros in relation to a wire-tapping scandal in which even the Greek Prime Minister's cellphone was compromised.
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Society: 4 Sep 07
Among documents released by MI5 this week was the story of a spy arrested in Sweden during the Second World War who was suspected of writing coded messages to the Germans on the pages of The Naturist magazine.
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National: 9 Aug 07
A network of Swedes delivered information to the Stasi, East Germany's secret police, during the Cold War, it has been revealed.
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Lifestyle: 9 Jul 07
In 1968 Mark Shapiro - a deserter from the Vietnam War - was among a group of Americans who staged a sit-down protest at the US Embassy in Stockholm. He spoke to The Local about his experiences in the Swedish capital during a visit to the city to mark the anniversary of that protest.
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Society: 5 Apr 07
Forget Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Daniel Craig: Gunnar Schäfer is the new James Bond. And his interest stretches a lot further than the Bond museum he runs in Nybro.
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Politics: 13 Feb 07
British Conservative leader David Cameron has been in Stockholm to learn from Fredrik Reinfeldt how to eject a left-wing government after more than a decade in opposition.
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National: 22 Aug 06
Young activists disrupted a demonstration against property tax in Stockholm on Tuesday evening. Cries of "kill the rich" and "more tax, more healthcare" interrupted speeches.
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National: 25 Jun 06
A 61-year old Palestinian-born Swedish journalist has been arrested in Syria reportedly for insulting the Syrian state, Sweden's foreign ministry said on Sunday.
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National: 4 Jun 05
It could soon be easier for Swedish police and the security service to use electronic surveillance to spy on suspected terrorists. We have to sacrifice people's integrity to protect society and democracy, says justice minister Thomas Bodström.
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National: 11 Mar 05
A police officer in Sweden's war crimes unit claims that there are ten times more war criminals in the country than the authorities admit. Meanwhile an investigation by Swedish Radio reveals that the Migration Board is consistently failing to report "probable war criminals" to the police.
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Politics: 23 Dec 04
Anna Lindh had no idea about plans for American authorities to deport two Egyptians from Sweden, says the prime minister.
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Society: 20 Aug 04
Problems dealing with the Migration Board? At least you didn't have to admit that you were a cousin of an evil ex-dictator.
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National: 23 Jul 04
The royal family's holiday on Öland was disturbed by intruders, said Expressen. No it wasn't, said the palace spokeswoman. Either way, the family has upped the security this year.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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