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A huge fucking scandal (think Clearstream) has been in the process of being uncovered in Sweden during the last few days.

Jan Guillou, number one journalist in Sweden (and well-known upper-class multimillionaire extremist, with a history of supporting everyone from Mao and PFLP to Saddam Hussein), has been shown to have been a KGB agent between at least 1967 and 1972, and was very possible tipped off by the KGB about the IB (according to retired senior KGB operative Boris Grigorjev), the secret Swedish intelligence agency which Guillou and two other fellows unveiled in 1973. This was the journalistic "discovery" of the century and launched Guillous career which has powered on since. It's even more fucked because Guillou later became friends with the old boss of the IB, who helped him write bestselling spy novels... It's really, really fucked up.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Wed Oct 28th, 2009 at 12:01:58 AM EST
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diary and translations of sources, please.  But what do you think the effect on Swedish politics will be?

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
by Crazy Horse on Wed Oct 28th, 2009 at 03:41:33 AM EST
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I haven't found anything in English about this yet, and the material in Swedish is just huge.

I don't think this will affect Swedish domestic politics, more than that people will dislike the politically correct  May-68 elite even more, now that their first bannerman turned out to have had secret contacts with the KGB. A lot of people are probably saying "told you so" right now.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Wed Oct 28th, 2009 at 01:53:18 PM EST
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Jan Guillou + KGB

in the Google search window and 77,100 'hits' come back.

Don't know enough background to provide links to qualified, informative, information.

by ATinNM on Wed Oct 28th, 2009 at 02:13:23 PM EST
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"informative" s/b "pertinent"
by ATinNM on Wed Oct 28th, 2009 at 02:15:40 PM EST
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