New BP Judge Hughes: Connections to Wilson-Quadaffi-Bush-Lockerbie?

[Jan Klimkowski]

BINGO, Jan.

"Oswald Le Winter" is a legend in both the literal and intel senses.

Further, it is blatantly so, and thus may be perceived as an insult offered by "them" to the self-annointed "experts" in the research community who fail to recognize its references and larger meaning.

I agree.

Oswald Le Winter is a transparently absurd and deeply resonant nom de guerre.

The master frame used by Francovich in his interviews of Oswald Le Winter can be seen at around 6mins into the clip below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omDB0kwBI...re=related

Filmically, it is at first glance a complete mess.

However, further examination reveals its mise-en-scène, inside-out, and looking glass qualities. Suggesting that Francovich knew that whilst his films were breaking historical ground, he was also aware that his sources, his actors, could change the script - ontologically - with a shrug.

The man who knows too much also knows too little....

Precedent? Remember the Secret Service reunion held, under false title, in Dallas at the hotel where the ASK Symposium had convened?

A Secret Service reunion in Dallas! Over the November 22 weekend!!!

Richard Bartholomew may be willing to provide an analysis of similar semiotic clues found in his Nash Rambler -- especially the issue of Life magazine on one of its seats.

The periodical's cover story was dedicated to the Taylor/Burton Cleopatra. Care to speculate why that particular issue was chosen for insertion into a larger JFK-related icon?

I look forward to more...

[Jan Klimkowski]

I believe we've been musing on the literary themes, the scriptwriting prowess, exhibited at the heart of these gardens of forking paths, where doppelgangers, double walkers, leave their noxious traces.

Carve these alleged words of Oswald LeWinter in stone:

"I contacted Barbara Honegger through another person. [..] I managed to pass on some information to her which had factual elements in it, but also elements that with a little bit of digging could be discovered to be questionable. The story would lead some investigators to spend time and effort running into blind alleys, with the result that eventually the whole story would be discredited."

Whether Wintry Ossie uttered these words or not is essentially irrelevant. The importance lies in the technique described, which is much practiced by those with deadly secrets to keep.


Fwiw:

Disinformant # 3: Oswald LeWinter

FBI lied about the CIA agent who did most damage
to the Palme murder investigation; he was active as
a disinformant on both sides of the Atlantic


By
John Anderson - Tony Widing - Anders Leopold


(Leopold Report 100521) Oswald LeWinter is the disinformant who did most damage in the Palme murder investigation. He kept the Police Investigation Group (PU) working for four years. LeWinter led an incredible double life. Behind the scenes, he was a professional disinformant, intelligence agent, and infiltrator, operating under cover names like "Y", "Razin", Razine", "Racine", "Wamma", and "Ibrahim Razin". The face he showed the world, however, was as a sophisticated and respected literature professor who had authored the book "Shakespeare in Europe ', a politician, and a poet.

LeWinter was extremely forthcoming for Swedish and international media that gullibly reported his startling stories that mixed facts and lies together in a disinformation campaign against PU.

In parallel, he carried out another extensive disinformation campaign directed against the journalists and authors who tried to investigate the alleged scandal surrounding the hostage crisis in Iran and the US presidential elections in 1980, which was known as October Surprise (see Part 2). When he first took on the Palme investigators, he had for many years been a professional disinformant, infiltrator, and provocateur.

Oswald LeWinter was a
literature professor and
published a book on Shakespeare.



But Oswald LeWinter, which eventually turned out to be his real name, was also a moderately well known literature professor, poet and writer who had taken part in high-level politics.

US Intelligence Agent

This is, however, primarily a story about LeWinter's life as a US Intelligence agent. LeWinter operated under several aliases, making it virtually impossible for others to connect with him. His style was to take his own contacts with American media, writers and others who wrote about October Surprise, directly or through intermediaries. This was also his operational modus in Europe in connection with the investigation into the murder of Olof Palme. He collaborated with media in many countries, including Sweden, Germany, the UK, Portugal, and Austria, and at one point he also made a much-publicized appearance in Italian television, where he wearing a mask alleged that the CIA and the Italian P2 Lodge were responsible for the Palme assassination (more about this below).

His tales were normally so well founded in facts around the Palme investigation that media considered him credible. Most probably, his supervisors were able in several ways to obtain information on the murder investigation that was passed on to LeWinter. He must have been given clear orders about which media to contact, who to talk to, and what they had written previously. Based on this, he and his supervisors could design the kind of disinformation to be presented.

A lot of LeWinter's activities are recounted in the report from the Swedish Government's Palme Commission (GK) (see timeline). Although he operated under several different aliases, PU was after two years (in the autumn of 1990) able to obtain information that his full name (probably) was Oswald LeWinter.

Disinformation from the FBI

LeWinter claimed in various contexts that he was a senior CIA officer and second-in-command for the CIA in Europe (e. g. Willan 1991:81). In the autumn of 1991, a year after PU from various sources had learned about his identity as Oswald LeWinter, the FBI responded to a series of requests about him with a long and falsified list of his criminal activities that would prove him not credible. This would implicitly prove that he did not belong to the CIA, hence that his allegations of CIA involvement in the assassination of Olof Palme could not possibly be true.

Earlier, the FBI had provided PU with only very brief comments about the various "unknown" cover names, never mentioning the name Oswald LeWinter. At one point, PU asked the FBI about the name George Cave, which according to an anonymous tip was LeWinter's real name. In its answer, the FBI lied to the Swedish investigators by claiming that "information about George Cave was missing". Not a word was mentioned about George Cave as one of Oliver North's closest associates in the Iran-Contra affair with frequent television appearances during the Congress hearings in the late 80's.

It was in this answer the FBI suddenly branded Oswald LeWinter as a criminal, who i. a. had been sentenced to six years imprisonment for involvement in one of Europe's biggest drug deals, while he actually had infiltrated and helped to collar the drug gang as an undercover agent (see more on this below).

FBI's apparently forthcoming cooperation had solidified its relations with PU. The Swedish investigators had no reason to doubt a word of the FBI's statements and were therefore an easy target for disinformation. In Sweden, authorities were so impressed with the FBI's efforts that the then Interior Minister Bengt K. A. Johansson in a solemn letter thanked the US Attorney General for help given to the investigators (GK p. 439). In reality, the "help" consisted of short answers with little real content, and sometimes lies mixed with half truths.

Of course we can not trust what either the FBI or LeWinter himself claimed about his background. But who, then, were his true superiors? Who provided him with information about the Palme murder? Who paid for all his travels? What was his source of income? Why didn't US authorities launch an American investigation when LeWinter claimed that the CIA was responsible for the assassination of PM Olof Palme, who also was the UN peace broker in the Iran-Iraq war?

German Police: LeWinter Worked for the CIA

It will appear from this article that LeWinter indeed worked for the CIA. This is not a paradox, since one very sophisticated kind of disinformation is to start by having the disinformant telling much of the true story that is supposed to be repudiated later, for example by revealing that the story-teller is a non-credible person, for other reasons than the contents of the story told - just like in this case.

One of the journalists who hunted LeWinter in connection with the October Surprise allegations was Martin Killian, the Washington correspondent of the German news magazine Der Spiegel. In the autumn of 1988, he was told by German police officials that LeWinter was a CIA contract agent (that is, he was working on specific CIA assignments, but not formally employed). In addition, he probably also worked for the Israeli intelligence service Mossad. (Parry 1993:72).German police had some years earlier cooperated with the FBI in the drug operation where LeWinter had been used as an undercover agent (see below) and knew who he was very well.

LeWinter and October Surprise

At 17 September, 1988, LeWinter appeared in the popular US radio program Bill Moran Show. Listeners were invited to call in their comments during the live broadcast. The topic at that day was the October Surprise allegations. One caller presented himself as "Y", claiming that he personally had taken part in connection with "the cleaning up" after October Surprise meetings in Europe. Present in the studio was also Barbara Honegger, who for three years had been a research and policy analyst in the White House after having participated in President Ronald Reagan's election campaign and transition team. She was working on a book to reveal the October Surprise scandal (causing a lot of attention when it appeared in 1989 with the same title). "Y" was one of her primary sources. Later, LeWinter continued to call around to American journalists about October Surprise, always under different aliases.

Robert Parry was one of those journalists. He worked for the Associated Press and Newsweek in the eighties, and published many breaking news stories related to the Iran-Contra affair in various media. Later, he also authored several books (see list of sources). He discovered that there was much misinformation related to the October Surprise allegations, but also that they had some substance that he wanted to clarify.

To start with, he wanted to identify "Y" or "Razine" and to determine which of his claims that were true and which that were lies. He also wanted to know whether he had any superiors. With his extensive knowledge about the Iran-Contra affair and all lawful and unlawful US covert operations through official and unofficial networks, Parry had the qualifications required to understand the possible serious implications. However, he focused entirely at LeWinter's October Surprise allegations, and did not pay any attention to his claims about the Palme murder.

Recognized from his Voice

In the autumn of 1988, an audiotape from the Bill Moran Show circulated among American journalists. As a result, he was already at that time recognized from his voice (Parry 1993:70):

"Tapes of the performance circulated among reporters on the West Coast in fall 1988, and one columnist in San Francisco recognized the lightly disguised voice of Mr. Razine as the real voice of a New York literature professor named Oswald LeWinter."

The German journalist Martin Killian traced LeWinter to the War and Peace Foundation in New York, where he worked on a television program about the United Nations. There is reason to believe that he had taken this job to prepare for his operation against the Palme murder investigation, since there were few other places in the US that he could obtain so much information on Palme's activities. Hence, we can already see a similarity to Disinformant #1, Robert Harkavy, who probably used the Swedish peace research institute SIPRI for the same purpose.

Jean-Baptiste Racine was a Shakespeare's contemporary, and of much professional interest for Oswald LeWinter. It is likely that Racine inspired him to use cover names like "Razine" and "Racine".


Unmasked by Killian

When Killian contacted LeWinter in the autumn of 1988, he panicked over having been unmasked as "Razine" and "Y". Later, he told Killian that he had worked for the CIA for 20 years.
In December, 1988, Parry and Killian decided to cooperate. LeWinter agreed to meet them both in Washington. At that time, the two journalists had revealed that several of his allegations in the radio program were false, and Parry questioned him about it (Parry 1993:73):


"'So why did you lie?' I asked, as an opening question.
'Well, I didn't exactly lie,' LeWinter answered, moving uncomfortably in his seat. 'I told some things that were true and some things that weren't.'"

Parry now recognized LeWinter's "gravelly voice" as the voice of the man that had called him three months earlier (using one of his cover names).

LeWinter further claimed:

"..that he had been recruited by several American intelligence figures to spread a version of the October Surprise allegations that was skewed enough from the truth to be debunked."

The journalists were uncertain about whether he now was telling the truth, but left it at that for the time being.

New Meeting in Germany in 1990

Two years later, at 28 October, 1990, Parry travelled to Germany where he again interviewed LeWinter. Parry was now working for the PBS television program Frontline, and had received new information from an Israeli source (Parry 1993:74).

According to Parry, LeWinter now edited a small Jewish magazine (the same that is discussed as SEMIT in GK p. 439). LeWinter was now afraid that Killian & Co. would disclose his role as a secret agent in Der Spiegel, but decided that among the two evils, Frontline was the lesser.

Parry asked LeWinter why he had contacted journalists to - as he claimed - expose October Surprise, when he had submitted so much obviously false information. One of these was that he claimed that one of Reagan's advisers had been in Paris and negotiated with the Iranian leadership, when it was easy to prove that the same person at that time was in the US - as a participant in a live television program (Parry 1993:67ff).

Admits Being a Professional Disinformant

LeWinter replied:

"I was asked by some people to mount a disinformation campaign". [..] "Barbara Honegger [..] had started enough interest in the newspaper community and the media to throw a negative light on George Bush's candidacy, potentially a negative light. The people who asked me to intervene felt that the country could not stand another Watergate, another major political scandal and upheaval, and also worried that the Democratic party's candidate might have hurt the intelligence community, which was just in the process of recovering from the damage that had been done to it during the Carter administration."

His next statement is important:

"I contacted Barbara Honegger through another person. [..] I managed to pass on some information to her which had factual elements in it, but also elements that with a little bit of digging could be discovered to be questionable. The story would lead some investigators to spend time and effort running into blind alleys, with the result that eventually the whole story would be discredited."

LeWinter also admitted to having received USD 100,000 in payment for his disinformation campaign.

Highly relevant for the Palme investigation, we now get first-hand information from a professional disinformant about the purpose for and use of disinformation.

Parry remained uncertain about the truth or falsehood of LeWinter's statements.

Was this just a new disinformation campaign to lure him onto thin ice? Was it really true that LeWinter in 1988, as he claimed, had been commissioned to destroy the entire October Surprise story that was on its way to be confirmed, in which case it would become a new Watergate? Or was he commissioned to revive the story to lure the critics down the slippery slope to set them up for the fall?

Then, when Parry in October, 1990, was together with LeWinter in Germany, he wondered for himself if it was possible that there never had been any real October Surprise. Could it rather have been other operations that had been converted to something else, which later could be denied and used to attack the critics for staging a malicious campaign against Reagan and Bush? Was LeWinter's intention this time to discredit critical journalists and Democrats in front of the upcoming presidential election? If they revitalized the October Surprise allegations, they could very well be accused of using dirty methods to hurt President Bush in his bid for re-election.

Nothing was certain about LeWinter, except that he was a very sophisticated professional disinformation agent, and that his behaviour led back to groups that wanted to reinforce Reagan's position and ensure that Bush was elected his successor.

And that is sufficient for our purpose.

"The CIA's Second-in-Command in Europe!"

In several of his anonymous interviews, including the interview on Italian television about the P2/Gladio accusations in Italy in 1990, LeWinter gave the impression of having intimate knowledge of CIA activities in Europe, and especially in Italy. I. a., he referred to extensive money transfers from the CIA to the so-called P2 Lodge, which in turn had passed money on to terrorist groups that by their acts of terror increased attention to the "red danger" and helped keeping the Communists outside the government (Avveniementi 1990).

The P2 lodge was headed by Licio Gelli. It had an incredible roster of members from the Italian power elite. P2 was investigated from 1981 because of suspected links to various financial scandals and terrorist attacks. The big scandal didn't come until 1990, when also P2's connection with Gladio (the Italian Stay Behind - see below) was revealed, and thereby both organizations' relationship to the CIA as well as Italian secret services. This triggered a judicial and political earthquake in Italy (Willan 1991, Christie 1984, and others). Licio Gelli's name was involved in the Palme case by LeWinter in connection with the alleged telegram that "the Swedish tree is to be felled - regards to our good friend Bush". (See Part 2: William Herrmann's disinformation).

LeWinter's alleged knowledge that the CIA transferred money to the P2 lodge may have contributed to the belief that he for a period was the CIA's Second-in-Command in Europe, published in various connections (e. g. Willan 1991:81). He also claimed that a NATO body had decided that Palme was to be removed. Of course, none of this was actually true, but it illustrates once again the incredible lies and myths LeWinter created around himself, and not least his eminent and detailed knowledge of the intelligence services in the US and Europe.

Professor, Politician and Psychologist

LeWinter had in the 60's taught English, Humanities and Comparative Literature at university level. He had been awarded prizes for his poetry, and published a book on Shakespeare. He was a friend of several American writers, including Saul Bellow. In 1968, he worked in Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign. In 1976, he worked for a conservative Democrat in Indiana to dig up dirt on the Republican rival candidate. Until the early 80's, he worked for military intelligence in Germany, mainly as a psychologist with clients from the US forces. German intelligence service even confirmed that he appeared in a Brigadier-General's uniform (i. a. Sick 1991:150, 260, Parry 1993:72ff, and LeWinter 1963).

As we begin to see who LeWinter really was in the 20-year period from the early sixties, we see a solid pillar of society with broad commitment and extensive skills, who obviously was met with respect wherever he went. Also in this regard, he is very similar to Disinformant #1 Robert Harkavy.

Undercover Agent in Anti-Drug Operation in Germany

In 1985, we find LeWinter on a new special assignment when he took part in a German-American joint venture where the FBI and German Police trapped a gang exporting chemicals for production of drugs to the United States. Then, LeWinter used the cover name "Wamma." The gang leaders were sentenced to 20 years in prison, while LeWinter was extradited to the US to be handled by the US authorities.

Spying on Italian Rogue Agent

After a very mild sentence - as the official story went - LeWinter was placed in a cell together with the Italian Francesco Pazienza. Pazienza had been arrested in the US, and Italian authorities wanted to have him extradited to Italy where investigations were proceeding about his role in the P2 Lodge, Gladio, and a number of terrorist acts, including the 1980 bombing of the railway station in Bologna, where 85 people were killed. Pazienza had detailed knowledge of Italian and American intelligence operations and activities of the Republican Party, and represented a serious security risk for these. We assume that LeWinter's mission was to keep Pazienza under surveillance and extract information from him.

Pazienza was an agent for the Italian secret service (SISMI). He was in a period Licio Gellis right-hand man and Second-in-Command for Gellis secret operations. This is particularly interesting, since Gelli's name later was involved in the Palme case by LeWinter with the alleged telegram that "the Swedish tree is to be felled ... regards to our friend President Bush" (see Part 2: William Herrmann's disinformation).

The Rome Court found that Pazienza was an important agent for the French intelligence service where he had close contact with its head Alexandre de Marenches. It also found it proved that he had good relations with foreign centres of power, including to the then US Secretary of State Alexander Haig (Herman and Brodhead 1986:95-96).

Pazienza was also indicted for his participation in the so-called Billygate operation in 1979, in which President Carter's brother Billy was more or less tricked into shady dealings with members of the family of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadaffi (Herman and Brodhead 1986:96). Billy Carter's dealings with Libya may have influenced the outcome of the 1980 Presidential Election in which Carter lost to Reagan.

In these operations, Pazienza's partner was Michael Ledeen, who had prominent roles in several organizations close to the Israeli intelligence service Mossad (CAIB 1987 # 27:68-70). Ledeen's relationship with Pazienza was very close during the Reagan administration. In an article in L'Espresso, it was claimed that all bilateral contacts between the US and Italy during the Reagan administration was handled unofficially by these two (Herman and Brodhead 1986:94-96). Ledeen was close to the White House when he served as an adviser on the National Security Council (NSC), and this made Pazienza an even greater security risk.

LeWinter was perfectly fit to spy on Pazienza, win his trust, and try to find out how he thought and what he wanted to do. Later (1990), LeWinter himself admitted that he had been commissioned by the authorities to spy on other detainees (Sick 1991:221).

A person convicted of serious drug offenses as LeWinter was, will usually find it very difficult to get a job. But immediately after LeWinter had "served his sentence", he was appointed to a trusted mission at the War and Peace Foundation in New York, from where he could operate as disinformant in the October Surprise matter - and against the Palme murder investigation.

LeWinter and Resistance International

Resistance International (RI) was a mobilization campaign against global communism founded by a group of exiled Russian writers (Nilsson 2001:183). RI had its international headquarters in Paris, and was considered to be funded by the CIA and private right-wing groups (Hermansson and Wenander 1987:172, 185).

The author Saul Bellow was in 1986 a board member of the American Chamber of the RI (Barry et al 1986:46). He was also a board member of the Committee on the Present Danger (Sanders 1983, p. 155ff), a right-wing pressure group that had as its purpose to get the Carter Administration to open its eyes to the growing global Soviet threat and thereby to convince Carter to increase defence spending. Bellow was also a good friend of the literature professor Oswald LeWinter, whom he supported in various ways.

For example, Bellow pleaded for LeWinter in a letter to the judge, when LeWinter in New Jersey in June, 1985, was awaiting his sentence for his participation in the attempt to smuggle chemicals for production of drugs into the United States. It ended with what probably was a plea bargain about a very short sentence (Sick 1991:260, footnote 14).

That LeWinter escaped a severe punishment, while others were sentenced to 20 years in prison, indicates that LeWinter acted as a provocateur and undercover agent for the FBI and the German police. This, as well as the convenient internment together with Pazienza, also shows that it was a straight FBI/CIA operation.

The controversial Swedish teacher Curt Bergström was a prominent RI representative in Sweden. 46 days after the Palme murder, at 15 April, 1986, he lectured at a RI seminar in Switzerland where he launched the theory that the Soviet Union/KGB was behind the assassination of Olof Palme through the Kurdish organization PKK. This was the first time the PKK lead was mentioned internationally, and it was four months before the Swedish Government was informed by Investigation Leader Hans Holmér that the PKK was the main lead. It was also the first time it was suggested anywhere that the PKK had murdered Palme on behalf of the KGB. However, the KGB and Russian diplomats in Stockholm had already from day one been accused of the murder - by the CIA in Stockholm, resulting in a secret and illegal bugging of a suspected diplomat, undertaken by CIA surveillance experts, conveniently in Stockholm at the time.

We will later in this series of articles show that the PKK lead was based on disinformation. What's interesting is that the RI already two years earlier, in 1984, had hosted an international seminar on precisely the subject of disinformation, showing that it considered this an important part of the business (Hermansson and Wenander 1997: 191-192). That Bergström so soon after the murder launched the PKK lead internationally also indicates that he was involved in the disinformation operation against PU.

The Swedish RI branch was founded at 21 March, 1985 (a long time after the main organisation was founded), and withered away in September, 1987. This was shortly after the Turkish magazine Hürriet at 2 September, 1987, published a large front page article claiming that a group of five PKK members were behind the Palme murder. Some time later, the article's author Ali Yula admitted that the tip came from a person easily identified as the Swede Bertil Wedin. Earlier, Wedin had from his residence in Turkish Cyprus twice attempted to plant the PKK lead, without success.

Wedin had for many years worked for South African security (BOSS), as well as the Swedish security police, SÄPO.

He also worked for the CIA (CAIB 1983 #18).

Hence, Saul Bellow was linked to a CIA-funded organization that just like LeWinter was engaged in disinformation in connection with the Palme murder. Interestingly, RI and LeWinter came up with two directly opposite versions about who was guilty of murdering Palme: The Soviet Union/PKK, and the CIA, respectively. Their supervisors had probably not foreseen that anybody would even think about connecting Bellow and LeWinter, and then connect the disinformation from Bergström to the disinformation from LeWinter, with the CIA directing both campaigns.

This also serves to illustrate how demanding cases like this are for the investigators' proficiency to process and analyse information. After PU had revealed the identity of LeWinter and his false information, it should have proceeded by using the disinformation as a lead in its own right. It would then have found all LeWinter's connections to US intelligence, and it could have combined this with other knowledge. This would have provided clear evidence that the murder of Olof Palme was an American state-controlled operation. It would have enabled the investigators to leave aside the red herring theories about "a lone madman" and PKK, and instead to focus at the search for a perpetrator who either was just a tool or also an important part of the conspiracy.

LeWinter and Stay Behind

Stay Behind in Europe, which is mentioned in connection with Gladio/P2 above, was during the Cold War a NATO-initiated network of groups that also were established in non-member as well as in neutral countries. Gladio was the name for Stay Behind in some Southern European countries. The purpose of Stay Behind in Western Europe was to facilitate guerrilla warfare and resistance after a possible Soviet invasion. It was funded by the CIA and the intelligence services in the respective countries. Its main headquarters was in England. In addition, there was a reserve headquarters in the US in case all of Europe was occupied. Both were localized physically outside NATO's own facilities.

Zoom (1996) is an Austrian anthology about Stay Behind/Gladio. It includes a chapter on the organization's activities in Sweden, starting with the first group Sveaborg that was established in 1941 at the initiative of the Swedish Nazi Otto Hallberg (LeMay 1996).

In this chapter, the author uses LeWinter as one of its sources:

"Seine (Hallberg's) Organisation soll aber noch 1989 intakt gewesen sein. Fragen im Zusammenhang mit dem Mord am schwedischen Minister-Präsidenten Olof Palme drängen sich auf. Soll der zweite Mann der CIA in Europa und Chef des Intelligence Tactical Assessment Center (ITAC), ein gewisser Oswald LeWinter, Papiere vorgelegt haben, die beweisen sollen, das Palme im Zuge einer ´Operation Tree´ ermordet werden sollte." [..] ".. und der ehemalige Stay Behind-Chef und frühere Skandia-Versicherungs-Direktor Alvar Lindencrona teilgenommen haben. Das Skandia-Haus in Stockholm - früher Thule-Haus - soll die Zentrale der Stay-Behind-Netze gewesen sein. Vor diesem Haus wurde Olof Palme am 28.2.1986 mit einem Smith & Wesson erschossen."

In English translation:

"His (Hallberg's) organization, however, is assumed to have been operational in 1989. This raises questions about a connection to the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. The Second-in-Command for the CIA in Europe and Head of the Intelligence Tactical Assessment Centre (ITAC), a certain Oswald LeWinter, has submitted documents that are supposed to show that Palme was to be murdered as the target of 'Operation Tree'." [..] "..and Alvar Lindencrona, former Head of Stay Behind and former Director of the Skandia insurance company, was supposed to have participated. The Skandia House in Stockholm - formerly the Thule house - was believed to have been the headquarters for the Stay Behind network. Palme was at 28.02.1986 shot with a Smith & Wesson in front of this house."

This was an obvious reference to the telegram saying that "the Swedish tree is to be felled". The story about this telegram had originated from LeWinter. The Skandia House and the people visiting there at the night of the murder have always been of interest to the Palme investigation, since it for a period indeed was the Stay Behind headquarters. But the information quoted must of course be seen in light of the fact that it comes from a notorious liar and disinformant.

Of course LeWinter was not the Second-in-Command for the CIA in Europe, nor the Head of ITAC. This is therefore a good example of the influence he gained as disinformant about the Palme murder in various places in Europe.

The really interesting point is that we in an Austrian book on Stay Behind, in a chapter on its network in Sweden, find information from the Austrian-born disinformant Oswald LeWinter leading us down to the Sveavägen murder scene and to the Skandia House.

The FBI's Sabotage against PU

Oswald LeWinter is the man's true identity. He has in recent years been active in Portugal and Austria, and is reportedly now in the United States. He is alive, and therefore available to the Swedish Government, the Swedish Government's Palme Murder Investigation (PU), and the Obama Administration, and is one among many excellent starting points for solving the Palme murder.

LeWinter is a reasonably well-known literature professor, poet and writer. He has worked as a psychologist and been involved in top-level politics. For a few decades from 1970, he was hired by the CIA and the FBI as an agent for intelligence, disinformation, provocation, and infiltration, in a wide range of operations. In addition, he had assignments for the Army. (Sick 1991:150).

In these roles, it was his mission to cause as much confusion as possible about who he really was and what he was doing, by making use of many different aliases as well as spreading disinformation about himself.

In this respect, he was in his Palme operations provided from start to finish with excellent help from the FBI - to the extent that the FBI directly sabotaged the murder investigation - see the Timeline summarizing the communication between the Swedish murder investigators and the FBI.

Next article - coming soon: The US Conspiracy - making the Connections.

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