The long serving Swedish Ambassador to Moscow Rolf SOHLMAN was feared to have a close association with Colonel Panteleymon Ivanovich TAKHCHIANOV (codename “Hasan”), one of the KGB’s most notorious and experienced counterintelligence officers. Reports about their exchange, including in the Raoul Wallenberg case, must continue to exist in Russian archives.
The information emerged as part of an in-depth review of documentation found in the archive of the Swedish Security Police (SÄPO) as well as the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
For more than four years, Ambassador Sohlman and his KGB contact discussed the most sensitive issues of state. It is now absolutely clear that thousands of pages about these discussions must be preserved in the KGB archive that nobody knew existed or has been able to review. This includes four years of extensive discussions about Raoul Wallenberg’s fate in the Soviet Union.
Swedish and Russian officials were aware of these facts during the official decade long investigation of the Wallenberg case by the Swedish-Working Group (1991-2001) but neither side revealed them to researchers or Raoul Wallenberg’s family.
Among other things, the discussions also touched upon a previously unknown Swedish agent and two Soviet defectors.
The article published at Blankspot in Swedish:
and in English:
https://susanneberger.substack.com/p/the-raoul-wallenberg-research-initiative-bff