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…
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Raoul Wallenberg’s Swedish intelligence contacts and his support for the Hungarian resistance may have jeopardized his fate Joint Swedish-American intelligence operations in wartime Hungary began much earlier and were more extensive than previously thought. They may have compromised Raoul Wallenberg in the eyes of both Swedish and Soviet officials. Susanne Berger September 2024 While Raoul Wallenberg’s activities…
The 80th anniversary of Raoul Wallenberg’s humanitarian mission to wartime Budapest in July 1944, to protect Hungary’s remaining Jewish population from Nazi terror gives rise to a wide range of reflections and emotions. Now more than ever, Raoul Wallenberg’s legacy of humanitarian activism continues…
The family of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg seeks answers to lingering questions about his fate with a new inquiry in Sweden
Raoul Wallenberg and his company fulfilled an important role in the Swedish official “Economic Defense Readiness” program (Rikskommissionen för Ekonomisk Försvarsberedskap). The fact that the Swedish military and its respective intelligence services oversaw this program may explain the claims that…
Soviet Prisoner No. 7: The Mysterious Case of Raoul Wallenberg Relatives are still trying to piece together the story of what happened to a Swedish diplomat abducted during World War II. This year researchers might be closer than ever to…
An excellent article about Serov’s Memoir on the historian and scientist’s Vadim Birstein’s website: I have … some doubts in the authenticity of this document [Ivan Serov’s memoir]. It could have been created later, and could have had no relationship to…
I somras kom en bok ut i Ryssland med sensationella uppgifter om Raoul Wallenbergs död. Det sades vara resultatet av att den tidigare KGB-chefen Ivan Servos dagböcker skulle ha hittats. Men bland ryska forskare är de föregivna memoarernas äkthet omtvistade.…