News you may have missed #0069
August 17, 2009 Leave a comment
- Book claims Mossad considered murdering Swedish journalist. The Mossad considered assassinating renowned Swedish left-wing journalist Jan Guillou in the 1970s, according to a book just published in Sweden.
- Romania denies allegations it hosted secret CIA prisons. The Romanian Foreign Ministry rejects revelations in a New York Timesarticle that a downtown Bucharest building served as a major secret CIA prison after 9/11.
- Iran releases on bail French woman accused of spying. Clotilde Reiss had been held in Tehran’s Evin jail since being arrested on July 1. She will now have to stay at the French embassy in Tehran while she awaits the verdict in her trial, which was heard on August 8.
intelNews.org 
Swedish journalist, author, admits KGB ties
October 27, 2009 by intelNews 1 Comment
Jan Guillou
By IAN ALLEN | intelNews.org |
One of Sweden’s most famous journalists has admitted having had ties with the KGB in the 1960s and 1970s. Jan Guillou, a veteran newspaper correspondent known in Sweden for his hugely popular spy novels, admitted meeting with a KGB handler after allegations surfaced in a Swedish newspaper. Stockholm-based daily Expressen said it had in its possession several declassified files belonging to Sweden’s security service (SAPO), which revealed that Guillou was recruited by the KGB in 1967. The files are reportedly based on the testimony of the late Arne Lemberg, Guillou’s friend and fellow-reporter, who told SAPO that Guillou held regular meetings with KGB rezident in Stockholm Yevgeny Ivanovich Gergel. Read more of this post
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