Olof Palme

[David Guyatt]

Not known to many is that while officially 'neutral' during WW2, there were large and important sectors of the Swedish elites that favored the Axis Powers, and helped arm and supply them. :flute:

Including Sweden's SEB bank, Svenska Enskilda Bank (sp?), whose levers and debt defaults in Latvia are threatening the financial stability of the EU right now.

Is there any connexion between Palme and the attempted assassination of Kurt Waldheim?

Enskilda Bank was founded by the Wallenberg family and collaborated with the Nazis during WWII, activity that led to a US blockade. I had a very enjoyable lunch at Enskilda in the City during my evil days.

Btw, elsewhere ED has started a thread about bankers who have been suicided. We can Marc Wallenberg (9171) to this list, I think.

[Carsten Wiethoff]

Is there any connexion between Palme and the attempted assassination of Kurt Waldheim?

Need some clarification there. When, do you think, Waldheim should be assassinated? Or do you mean his character assassination, accusing him of war crimes in WWII? From what I read, the documents against him were fabricated by the Israelis, but, of course, nobody comes out of a war completely clean.
There were also some letter bombs in Austria, I do not remember right now if one of them was also directed against Waldheim. These are also claimed to have originated with Mossad.

Waldheim is definitely connected to Russbacher and that pesky Gold, there are experts on this in this forum (wink, David?).
Other than that I currently do not see something, but, as you know, this does not mean anything.
Carsten

[Helen Reyes]

Need some clarification there. When, do you think, Waldheim should be assassinated? Or do you mean his character assassination, accusing him of war crimes in WWII? From what I read, the documents against him were fabricated by the Israelis, but, of course, nobody comes out of a war completely clean.
There were also some letter bombs in Austria, I do not remember right now if one of them was also directed against Waldheim. These are also claimed to have originated with Mossad.

Waldheim is definitely connected to Russbacher and that pesky Gold, there are experts on this in this forum (wink, David?).
Other than that I currently do not see something, but, as you know, this does not mean anything.
Carsten

LOL I was referencing an actual attempt on Waldheim's life. Just came across it in old audio files of news. I doubt much needed to be fabricated against Waldheim, but don't know his story. The attempt was when he was sec gen of UN, will look up date again.

[Peter Lemkin]

Is there any connexion between Palme and the attempted assassination of Kurt Waldheim?

Need some clarification there. When, do you think, Waldheim should be assassinated? Or do you mean his character assassination, accusing him of war crimes in WWII? From what I read, the documents against him were fabricated by the Israelis, but, of course, nobody comes out of a war completely clean.
There were also some letter bombs in Austria, I do not remember right now if one of them was also directed against Waldheim. These are also claimed to have originated with Mossad.

Waldheim is definitely connected to Russbacher and that pesky Gold, there are experts on this in this forum (wink, David?).
Other than that I currently do not see something, but, as you know, this does not mean anything.
Carsten

Waldheim certain was a very strange choice for Head of U.N! I believe the first Secretary General Dag Hammerskjold was murdered....but don't want to divert the thread.

[Magda Hassan]

Is there any connexion between Palme and the attempted assassination of Kurt Waldheim?

Possibly. The attempted assassination was in Terhan where he was trying to negotiate a release of the American hostages.

[David Guyatt]

Robert Fisk writes without equivocation that Waldheim was a Nazi war criminal HERE.

I've not heard or seen anything that shed doubts on Fisk's integrity as an honest journo.

[Peter Presland]

Further to my comment on the 'Codshit Blog' thread:

Incidentally, both he and John Symonds believe that MI6 was behind the Olaf Palme assassination. As I recall he has set out evidence which I found credible when reading it some time ago. Must see if I can dig it out for the Olaf Palme thread.

Here is the link to a long and fascinating article about the Palme assassination.

It really is too long to post here but my recall (mentioned above) was accurate in that it connects some very disparate dots. It places the episode carefully in in the fraught context of its time: Viz ambitious US/UK/NATO plans to precipitate the fall of the Soviet Union proceeding apace, with Palme's election, following his history of aggressive neutrality, further confirmed by his blocking of a trans-shipment of Hawke missiles through Sweden, seen as seriously threatening those plans. Ola Tunander's Submarine incursions work is mentioned as are a number of other impressive sources.

[Peter Presland]

BTW, the Hawke missiles mentioned in my last post were bound for Tehran, courtesy of Oli North which, as intimated in other posts brings Iran-Contra firmly into play - so no surprises there.

[Jan Klimkowski]

Robert Fisk writes without equivocation that Waldheim was a Nazi war criminal HERE.

I've not heard or seen anything that shed doubts on Fisk's integrity as an honest journo.

Yes. Waldheim was that most despicable of creatures: a Nazi apparatchik.

As Fisk notes:

Waldheim - how his friends would prefer that they didn't read these words this morning - was based at a town called Banja Luka, a market town where Serbs and Jews and communist Croatians were murdered en masse, hanged like thrushes from mass gallows or raped to death in the nearby Jasenovac extermination camp. Waldheim would have us believe that he knew nothing of all this, that he was a mere intelligence officer for Army Group E of the Wehrmacht, whose commander, Löhr, just happened to be tried for war crimes after the Second World War.


It was an Austrian journalist who alerted me to Waldheim, a reporter whose father had fought in the Wehrmacht, who had survived the evacuation of north Africa ("I do hope I didn't kill him," the "Enigma" cryptologist said to me when I told her of his attempt to escape by air - his plane got through the Allied net). "Look for the letter W," the Austrian journalist said, the letter W after each debriefing, each Allied commando captured by the Gestapo, each prisoner to be extinguished by "nacht und nebel" - by night and fog.


No, Waldheim didn't order their deaths. He didn't even interview the captured British commandoes, or so he said, but merely "collated" their reports. His junior officers did the interviewing (let us not contemplate what that meant). Then the British prisoners disappeared into night and fog.

[Peter Lemkin]

On September 29, 2004 Pettersson died at the Karolinska University Hospital after he supposedly fell and suffered a cerebral haemorrhage. He had been in a coma since September 16, 2004 when he underwent emergency surgery for unspecified head injuries. Pettersson had reported being harassed by the police on September 15, the day before he was found with head injuries, with unsubstantiated rumors circulating that he was a victim of police violence. Pettersson was buried in his hometown Sollentuna in January 2005.

Shortly before Pettersson was taken to hospital, he had contacted the son of Olof Palme, Mårten Palme, explaining he had something to tell the family. Palme said he was willing to meet Pettersson if he was ready to confess to the murder. But the meeting did not take place, and what Pettersson had to tell was never revealed.