Margaret Thatcher told navy to raid Swedish coast

[JackRiddler]

Source: The Sunday Times - London

January 27, 2008

Margaret Thatcher told navy to raid Swedish coast

Pelle Neroth

MARGARET THATCHER ordered the Royal Navy to land Special Boat Service (SBS) frogmen on the coast of Sweden from British submarines pretending to be Soviet vessels, a new book has claimed.

The deception involved numerous incursions by British forces into Swedish territorial waters in the 1980s and early 1990s, designed to heighten the impression around the world of the Soviet Union as an aggressive superpower. Sometimes the boats landed commandos, but often their job was to fool the Swedes by mimicking the sonar signals given off by the Soviet vessels that stalked the same waters.

The Swedish government, neutral in the cold war, is not believed to have known about the deceptions, which were carried out by the British and American navies. A Swedish parliamentary inquiry noted evidence found on the seabed of submarine “midgets with bottom-crawling capacity of a hitherto unknown character”.

The cold war under the Baltic is detailed in a book by Ola Tunander, research professor at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo. Tunander writes that there were more than 4,000 reported detections of foreign submarines in Swedish waters in 1982-92. The West claimed the vessels were all Soviet, probing the country’s defences. Tunander believes many were part of a CIA-run operation by Britain and America that continued until the collapse of the Soviet Union.

MORE - CLAIM THATCHER SIGNED OFF ON ALL SUCH INCURSIONS - UNNAMED SWEDISH SOURCE SAYS "COMPLETELY UNTRUE"

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3257297.ece

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3257297.ece

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More evidence for the possibly routine use of false-flag attacks and synthetic terror devices in the practice of Western "statecraft."

Now don't blame me if you don't like it - blame the author, blame the Times.

[mac2]

1. Margaret Thatcher and Ronnie "Raygun"

wanted their World Order Government. Sweden refused to be part of the EU at that time. They were playing Empire Builders back then like today.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Margaret Thatcher the She-Devil

when she invaded the Falkland Isles to boost her dwindling support at the time.

[loser_user]

6. But weren't the Falkland Isles invaded first?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. well

unfortunately that's what we were led to believe but....

[Doctor Cynic]

3. They were punishing Sweden for having ABBA.

[Rex]

4. The Iron Box loved to one up Raygun and was far superior to

Reagan and Bush Sr.

[Freddie Stubbs]

5. Perhaps it was just revenge for what the Vikings did

[truebluecollar]

7. They came for the meatballs,

lingonberry jam and all that shitty shoddy crap from Ikea

[Bongo Prophet]

8. I don't believe it - crazy conspiracy that goes against Occam's Raisin!

And as we know, occam's Raisin and God Winslaw are two most powerful forces around.

Yes, it is late.


Seriously, this is just another WTF moment when history proves that even our worst cynicism strains to keep up with the reality.

Thank you for this. Oy.

[JackRiddler]

10. worth another round of visibility - kick