2024/11/08 by Johan Matz · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Communism, Protests, Social Movements #German History and Society #Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/08850607.2024.2401893
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With the German and Soviet attacks on Poland on 1 and 17 September 1939, respectively, Sweden’s secret security service, the Allmänna säkerhetstjänsten, was activated. Over the next six years, until 1945, the two operative agencies of this organization—the Central Agency (Centralbyrån) for the control of the means of transportation (also referred to as the Trafikmedelskontrollen) and the Scouting Agency (Spaningsbyrån), or more precisely, its executive organ, the so-called Sixth Squad (Sjätte roteln) of the Stockholm Criminal Police, collected massive amounts of intelligence, inter alia, with regard to the Soviet legation in Stockholm. On the basis of a review of the documents generated through this work—material that has not been the subject of research before—this study addresses how the Sjätte roteln, through observation and learning, elaborated routines for handling the challenges of collecting and reporting intelligence on the inner life and espionage of the Soviet legation.