Times article: British and US navys staged false flag covert ops against Sweden.

[JohnyCanuck]

These false flag operations during the Cold War were designed to make the Soviet Union appear as an aggressive superpower.

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.

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Tunander said he had once sat next to a British admiral at dinner and questioned him about the operation. He replied that it was “none of my business”, Tunander said. “The admiral then added jokingly, ‘Don’t people fall under buses sometimes?’ ” This weekend Sir Keith Speed, navy minister from 1979 to 1981, was asked if the missions had happened. He replied, “Yes,” but added: “I cannot say any more as I am bound by the Official Secrets Act until the day I die.”

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

[ck4829]

1. K&R

[LynnTheDem]

2. That's ok. Brits & Americans like being duped tricked conned lied to

by their governments, over & over & over & over & over again.

[Echo In Light]

4. The various "wars" on this or that are PR campaigns to cover the real agenda

[LeftinOH]

3. In hindsight, sometimes the fearsome "Bear in the Woods" (USSR) seems more

like a wheezing old squirrel (with rabies.. but still just a squirrel).

[gratuitous]

5. Hell yeah!

Those goddam Swedes with their meatballs. Wonder what terrorist and commie secrets they're hiding in there?

[Doctor Cynic]

6. This was a preemptive strike to keep out Ikea.

Unfortunately, it didn't succeed.