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There is a new UN Convention on Disappearances now open for signature.
Would Russia be willing to become a party? Some of its provision are these:

…”Accurate information on the deprivation of liberty of any person and on his or her whereabouts, including information on any transfer, the identity of those responsible for the deprivation of liberty, and the authority in whose hands the person has been placed, shall be made immediately available to the person’s counsel or to any other persons having a legitimate interest in the information.

How a country’s economic interests influence its political decision making, including its human rights policy, is a timely question. While the political aspects of the Raoul Wallenberg case have been discussed at length, its economic dimensions have been largely ignored. There are indications that Swedish business interests came to bear quite significantly in all major phases of the case: Raoul Wallenberg ‘s selection for the humanitarian mission to Budapest; his work in Budapest; and his arrest and imprisonment.

Dear Sir, You have requested that the Riksdag’s Comitte on the Constitution examines the case Raoul Wallenberg trhough your email 28th of August 2007. With reference to your letter, I hereby…-> More

… I note that your letter requests action to be taken by the German President and the German Government. While sympathising with the request that you make, as far as the European Commission is concerned the diseapance of Mr Wallenberg… 

The Ongoing Search for Universal Values

The story of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish businessman who went to Hungary in 1944 to rescue the Jews of Budapest, bears all the hallmarks of a Greek tragedy: Young and idealistic, he fought one totalitarian regime (Nazism) only to fall victim to another (Stalinism). As such, his case seamlessly links the two defining events of the 20th Century, the Holocaust and the Cold War.

In 2002 (#), I received a grant from the Swedish Reference Group in the Raoul Wallenberg case to examine one specific issue: Who was the Swedish prisoner mentioned in the testimony of Polish prisoner of war Boguslaw Baj (1988 and 1992). As outlined in my original research proposal, identifying other Swedish prisoners in Soviet captivity in the time since 1940- present is both helpful and necessary for analyzing witness testimonies in the Raoul Wallenberg case. [# I had not applied for this grant at the time it was given, but had done so earlier, in 2001. (when it was refused). Research in Russia was postponed, by mutual agreement, due to health reasons, inaccessibility of certain files in Russia , new insights from Swedish and Russian archives which made an adjustment of the original proposal advisable and conflicting work schedules. On at least two occasions I offered to return the grant.]

Ny information visar att Raoul Wallenberg hade täta förbindelser med ungerska motståndsrörelser och de allierades underrättelsetjänster, något som kan kasta nytt ljus över Sovjets intresse för honom..

DET SKULLE TA år av forskning att på allvar reda ut de komplicerade relationerna mellan de olika falangerna inom den underjordiska ungerska motståndsrörelsen och de allierades underrättelsetjänster under andra världskrigets sista månader. Men ny kunskap dyker upp dagligen, vilket öppnar viktiga möjligheter för den pågående undersökningen av Raoul Wallenbergs öde.
Utom västmakternas underrättelseaktiviteter är de sovjetiska operationerna och ännu viktigare den sovjetiska tolkningen av inhämtad information, av särskilt intresse för fallet Wallenberg. När ryssarna ryckte fram genom Östeuropa – rädda att västmakterna skulle vända sig mot Sovjetunionen efter att Nazi-Tyskland besegrats – sonderade och infiltrerade de olika lokala underrättelsenätverk. I synnerhet efter mars 1944, när nazisterna ockuperat Ungern, fanns en aktiv ungersk motståndsrörelse. Den bestod av nyckelgrupper kring den ungerske regenten Miklós Horthy, varav de främsta var MFM (Ungerska oavhängighetsrörelsen); den Ungerska fronten som bestod av socialdemokrater och småbrukarpartiet; olika judiska grupper, de ungerska pojkscouterna, ett välfungerande polskt underjordiskt nätverk samt kommunistiska kretsar.
År 1944 spelade även en grupp holländska och brittiska officerare som rymt från tyska krigsfångeläger en liten men viktig roll. De holländska officerarna hade nära kontakter med den svenska beskickningen i Budapest, varifrån de erhöll ett litet månatligt arvode (som före detta krigsfångar) och, senare, pengar till räddningsinsatser.

Catherine Eva Schandl’s The London-Budapest Game (August 2007) is  the  true, documented  sequel (book 2) to Sword of the Turul, offering an exciting glimpse into the hidden world of the British Underground in World War II  Budapest – and its aftermath. Real… 

On July 2007, 60 years will have passed since the alleged death of Raoul Wallenberg in Soviet captivity. I am writing to ask your assistance in requesting your country’s government to actively pursue the search for Raoul Wallenberg by: a.…