Sweden/Military

Sweden/Military  (Armed Forces,  Sweden/Deep state)
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The armed forces of Sweden.

As part of the deep state, elements within the military have conspired against the elected government on several occasions.

History

In 1788, a head tailor of the Royal Swedish Opera received an order to sew a number of Russian military uniforms that later were used in an exchange of gunfire at Puumala, a Swedish outpost on the Russo-Swedish border, on 27 June 1788. The false flag attack, which caused outrage in Stockholm, was to convince the Riksdag of the Estates and to provide Gustav with an excuse to declare a "defensive war" on Russia. This was important since Gustav III did not have the constitutional right to start an offensive war without the agreement of the estates, who had already made clear that their acceptance would not be forthcoming.

World War 2

During World War 2, there were a lot of rumors of a possible pro-German military coup in winter–spring 1942. A pro-British general was intensively preparing for the defence of Stockholm, and the illness of the pro-German Swedish King Gustav V put the coup plotters in a difficult situation. The Liberal Party leader Gustav Andersson wrote in his memoirs that Major-General Axel Rappe argued that Sweden should join Finland and Germany and move two-thirds of the Swedish army to the Finnish–Soviet Front. According to the memoirs of the later Chief of Navy Admiral Stig Hansson Ericson, Rappe proposed a military coup in 1940 and was trying to get support for it from Admiral Hansson Ericson.

The Secret war against Sweden

Full article: The secret war against Sweden

During the 1980s, officers conspired with foreign powers with the aim to ultimately topple the elected government of Olof Palme.

Senior Swedish officers discussed the necessity of a military coup in Sweden in the early 1980s with representatives of the US Embassy (i.e with the Pentagon and CIA).

On 10 November 1985, Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) published interviews with twelve senior naval officers in what effectively amounted to an "officer revolt" against the elected government of Olof Palme. The leadership of an entire arms service – the Navy – declared that they "lacked confidence in the government".

Propaganda

In 2021, Svenska Dagbladet published this front page "A flag worth defending", where the military found a new pretext for intervening abroad by allegedly fighting for "gay rights", just like it fought for "women's rights" during the occupation of Afghanistan.

NATO

In December 2023, the Swedish government gave the US military access to 17 bases all over the country.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
James Schlesinger	“[Former United States Secretary of Defense James R. Schlesinger] said 'The [Swedish] Military was planning for us to come as soon as possible'. He obviously did not speak about all Swedish politicians or all Swedish military officers, but rather about a fundamental divide between a few relevant political leaders with the ambition of keeping Swedish neutrality, and some senior military officers that were directly linked up to the U.S. agencies, officers that identified themselves with the United States and with U.S. military priorities: They planned for the U.S. military forces to come to Sweden 'as soon as possible'”	Ola Tunander James Schlesinger	1993
John Vessey	“When it comes to Sweden, there was only one rule: Nothing on paper.”	John Vessey John W Vessey Jr.	1989

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Hans von Hofsten	Commander in the Swedish Navy	1972	1991	Instigated the 1985 "Officers' Revolt" against Prime Minister Olof Palme
Per Rudberg	Chief of the Swedish Navy	1978	1984
Stig Synnergren	Chief of the Defence Staff (Sweden)	1 April 1967	30 September 1970
Stig Synnergren	Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces	1 October 1970	30 September 1978

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