The important new research findings released in February 2024 – regarding the confidential back channel contacts of longtime Swedish Ambassador to Moscow Rolf Sohlman to the Soviet leadership during the years 1958-1963 are now featured in two hour-long episodes of…
SPIONPODDEN Ep. 64 Part 1 https://open.spotify.com/episode/3URiPHODN9PSpX9ZA9HEGz?si=hEodChOnQWS2sFYGdlA5rQ The contact between Ambassador Sohlman and his “Academic Friend” during the early 1960s raises so many interesting questions, with potentially very serious ramifications for the official handling of numerous highly sensitive policy issues…
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…
After the announcement at AP that the KGB stopped the investigation in late 1990 according to a new documentation. The Swedish Foreign Office investigation will be led by Hans Magnusson together with Russian experts in the 1990s. More information about the…
Your Excellencies, The Reference Group for Support to Independent Research on Raoul Wallenberg, established by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in Sweden in April 2002 in order to advise the Ministry on research grants, has established the following guidelines for…
By Susanne Berger Judisk Krönika, November 2009
Independent consultant to the Swedish Russian Working Group on the fate of Raoul Wallenberg (1991-2001)
When Raoul Wallenberg disappeared into the Soviet Union in January 1945, his parents, Maj and Fredrik von Dardel, began a desperate, three decade long struggle to save their son. A closer reading of Fredrik’s diary – a meticuluous chronicle of the couple’s efforts – shows the enormous obstacles they faced. Surprisingly many of these remain stubbornly in place today.
On August 28 Dr. Guy von Dardel, Raoul Wallenberg’s maternal half-brother, died peacefully in Geneva, Switzerland, having just reached his 90th birthday. On September 3, at a simple but elegant ceremony at the Eglise Evangelique, von Dardel’s notable contributions were celebrated in a heartfelt eulogy. However, his death received little coverage in his native Sweden, despite his membership in the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and previous position as Professor of Physics at Lund University.
Governtment Offices of Sweden, 103 33 Stockholm, 08-405 10 00 A printout from www.sweden.gov.se
Press release 04 March 2003
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Today the Commission of inquiry into the actions of the Swedish foreign policy leadership in the Raoul Wallenberg case has presented its report “A failure of diplomacy” (UD 2001:03) to the Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh.
The Commission’s assignment was to investigate and evaluate the actions of the Swedish foreign policy leadership in the Wallenberg case. Its purpose was to clarify whether the leadership of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs had taken advantage of all the opportunities that had emerged over the course of the years to shed light on the fate of Raoul Wallenberg.
2003 Statens Offentliga Utredningar: « Ett Diplomatisk misslyckande », 2003 A Failure of Diplomacy, Jan Eliasson Ett politisk misslyckande 2002 Themes for Research on RW 2001 The Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson excuses to the family 2000 The report of the Swedish-Russian…
Sammanfattning Regeringen bemyndigade genom beslut den 18 oktober 2001 chefen för Utrikesdepartementet att tillkalla en kommission med uppgift att utreda och värdera hur den svenska utrikesledningen har agerat i Wallenbergärendet (dir. 2001:71). Ladda ner Missiv till och med kapitel 5…