Olof Palme

[Jan Klimkowski]

United States recalled its Ambassador to Sweden in February 1968 in protest to Palme (then Minister of Education) participating in a demonstration in Stockholm against the war in Vietnam. In 1972 relations between Sweden and the United States were frozen for over a year after a speech by Palme (PM) comparing the US bombings of Hanoi to other atrocities such as the bombing of Guernica and extermination of Jews at Treblinka. The U.S government called this a “gross insult”. Asked about Palme, former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger once answered that he usually disliked the people he agreed with and liked the people he disagreed with, adding dryly: “So Palme, I liked – a lot”. Olof Palme is also remembered for his engagement in liberation of oppressed people in third world countries (South Africa, Nicaragua, Palestine, El Salvador etc.) and his harsh criticism of the Franco Regime in Spain, apartheid in South Africa. One of his most memorable visits was with the Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

http://secretswede.net/swedish/in-memory-of-olof-palme/

Palme may have been a genuine thorn in Their side. In which case, plenty have motive for wanting rid.

David Guyatt's comments above the potential American connection and sanctioned South Africa as, essentially, Riconosciuto's Cabazon reservation writ large, are most interesting. Palme may have been prepared to blow the whistle on some of these secret military programmes. Again, plenty enough reason for the hit.