This article is, as I wrote in the introductory remark, largely a translation of my chapter 3 in my Swedish book "Det svenska ubåtskriget" (Medströms, 2019). However, compared to the chapter, I have also added some changes and corrections. In the book, I wrote that National Underwater Reconnaissance Office (NURO) probably played a significant role for running these operations. This had been implied by several senior actors including a senior White House official and a CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence, which I also discuss in Part II of this article. However, after my conversation with Admiral Bobby Inman in 2021, I had to modify this statement. I am now convinced that the order hierarchy from DCI Casey down to the operations in Sweden did not pass through Naval Intelligence and NURO but went directly to Admiral Lyons and to his PSYOP and deception staff. The Swedish operations were rather run by what Norman Channell (at the Naval Postgraduate School) described as "the Agency crowd and the SOF people", but that will become clear in the second part of this article.
Hej Ola, very interesting all this. But what about the "Soviet Whiskey-class submarine S-363". It did appear in the Stockholm archipelago, didn't it? But you don't mention a word about it in this article. Thx.
I mention S-363 in my "Submarine War against Sweden" on Substack, but I have written a book in Swedish. in 2021 that only deals with the "Whiskey class submarine" S-363. The book is called Navigationsexperten (Stockholm: Karneval Förlag, 2021). Karl Andersson, who was the Chief of Staff of the Naval Base in Karlskrona and who did the questioning of the Russian crew was ordered not to question a senior officer, who actually had been the officer responsible for the navigation of the submarine the last day and night. He was the only one on the submarine who knew exactly what had happened, and Karl Andersson's superior did not allow Andersson to speak to this officer, Joseph Avrukevich. Of course, it is remarkable that you enter a narrow fjord with a submarine, when the fjord is so shallow that you could not dive and why do you go up on an island with a submarine. It is also surprising that the American naval attachés had arrived at the place already when it happened. When the US Admiral Lyons was asked if it was his deception operation, he answered that "some things you still keep to yourself".
This article is, as I wrote in the introductory remark, largely a translation of my chapter 3 in my Swedish book "Det svenska ubåtskriget" (Medströms, 2019). However, compared to the chapter, I have also added some changes and corrections. In the book, I wrote that National Underwater Reconnaissance Office (NURO) probably played a significant role for running these operations. This had been implied by several senior actors including a senior White House official and a CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence, which I also discuss in Part II of this article. However, after my conversation with Admiral Bobby Inman in 2021, I had to modify this statement. I am now convinced that the order hierarchy from DCI Casey down to the operations in Sweden did not pass through Naval Intelligence and NURO but went directly to Admiral Lyons and to his PSYOP and deception staff. The Swedish operations were rather run by what Norman Channell (at the Naval Postgraduate School) described as "the Agency crowd and the SOF people", but that will become clear in the second part of this article.
Thanks, Ola
Hej Ola, very interesting all this. But what about the "Soviet Whiskey-class submarine S-363". It did appear in the Stockholm archipelago, didn't it? But you don't mention a word about it in this article. Thx.
I mention S-363 in my "Submarine War against Sweden" on Substack, but I have written a book in Swedish. in 2021 that only deals with the "Whiskey class submarine" S-363. The book is called Navigationsexperten (Stockholm: Karneval Förlag, 2021). Karl Andersson, who was the Chief of Staff of the Naval Base in Karlskrona and who did the questioning of the Russian crew was ordered not to question a senior officer, who actually had been the officer responsible for the navigation of the submarine the last day and night. He was the only one on the submarine who knew exactly what had happened, and Karl Andersson's superior did not allow Andersson to speak to this officer, Joseph Avrukevich. Of course, it is remarkable that you enter a narrow fjord with a submarine, when the fjord is so shallow that you could not dive and why do you go up on an island with a submarine. It is also surprising that the American naval attachés had arrived at the place already when it happened. When the US Admiral Lyons was asked if it was his deception operation, he answered that "some things you still keep to yourself".
Thank you for your answer, I will read your book then.
Is there any way to get translation made. To swedish for ex.