Source:
The Sunday Times - LondonJanuary 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.eceRead more:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article3257297.ece
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.