Sweden in the Crosshairs

There were ghosts in Swedish waters in the 1980s. Ghost submarines. Guarding the forested islets and bays of the Swedish archipelago, overlooking the flat, grey Baltic sea, often shrouded in damp mist, many thousands of Swedish conscripts, now in late middle age, remember being on the lookout at the shoreline, gazing out, morning, day and night. There were observations of unidentified submarines gliding on the surface, conning towers, strange periscopes and frogmen who, on shore, left behind tin cans with Cyrillic lettering. The newspapers covered the ongoing incidents, which lasted for weeks at a time over several years, creating a sense of collective anxiety among the Swedish public. Relying on Scandinavian and UK sources, the mystery is here revealed. Using submarines as tools of intimidation, it was an act of psychological warfare, political destabilization, by a foreign power. But which foreign power? And what were the consequences? This is an untold story about the Cold War in Scandinavia, about the inside political workings of the US and Britain and their top secret navy strategies; It tells us about a Swedish leftist prime minister, a peace dove, having his authority challenged. This is an important and exciting work of contemporary political history, covering the little-known Scandinavian front, without which our knowledge of the Cold War would not be complete.

Author: Pelle Neroth Taylor

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: 44559

Number of Pages: 228 pages

Binding: History

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ISBN-13: 9798789093436