Updated: The real conspiracy behind the assassination of Olof Palme

In February 1986, the Swedish prime minister was assassinated in a crime of political violence that still remains unsolved at this day.

I will examine the various explanations that were proposed for this act, both in Sweden and in other Western countries. I do not consider my self an expert of any kind, just that i have gone threw almost all public available material and some other material which is not. It will be shown how these explanations changed as the scope of the investigation grew in complexity and how investigators deviated more and more sharply from the official Western view of the murder theory. From early suspicion of traditional villains, but my attention has focused more and more recently on very different candidates, like Swedish business and Police “right winged” and foreign and domestic intelligence circles. My goal is neither to solve the crime nor to produce any new evidence, but to study the changing ideological assumptions of the investigative process, particularly when dealing with sensitive political offenses.

Palme was born into an upper class, conservative family in Ostermalm, Stockholm, Sweden. His father was of Dutch ancestry and his mother, Freiin von Knieriem, was of German origin. Despite his upper class background, his political orientation came to be influenced by Social Democratic attitudes. He traveled in the Third World, as well as the United States where he saw deep economic inequality and racial segregation and that helped to develop his famous views.

On a scholarship, he studied at Kenyon College, Ohio 1947–1948, graduating with a B.A. in less than a year. Inspired by radical debate in the student community, he wrote a critical essay on Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. Olof Palme wrote his senior honor thesis on the United Auto Workers union, led at the time by Walter Reuther. After graduation he traveled throughout the country and eventually ended up in Detroit, where his hero Reuther agreed to an interview which lasted several hours. In later years, Palme regularly remarked during his many subsequent American visits, that the United States had made him a socialist, a remark that often has caused confusion. Within the context of his American experience, it was not that Olof Palme was repelled by what he found in America, but rather that he was inspired by it.

CIA attempted to recruit young Olof Palme. Could he been a victim of ‘Pegasus’: CIA’s assassination project?
Olof Palme cooperated with officials from the CIA and U.S. Embassy on several occasions early in his career as a student leader and political activist. A declassified U.S. government document shows that Palme passed information to the American Embassy on communist sympathizers in Sweden in 1950. According to Dagens Nyheter, the CIA was also actively recruiting the young activist as an agent for the U.S. intelligence service. Palme went on to become one of the most influential figures in Swedish politics, serving twice as Prime Minister, and as leader of the Social Democratic Party from 1969 until his assassination in 1986.

“Olof Palme’s cooperation with the Americans and the CIA was well known throughout the military intelligence service,” said Ingemar Engman, a former employee in Sweden’s secret military intelligence service IB (Information bureau). In a meeting at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm following his participation in a Prague conference organized by the IUS in 1950, a 23 year old Olof Palme remembered three of names of fellow Swedes who also attended the conference were thought to be Communist activists at the time: Gunnar Claesson, Gunnar Svantesson and Hans Göran Franck. Prior to the 1950 meeting at the U.S. Embassy, Palme also had well established contacts with the CIA station chief in Stockholm who wanted to recruit Palme as an agent. According to a 2003 interview with American political scientist Karen Paget, former CIA agent Tom Farmer explained that he and Palme had a good working relationship. However, upon discovering the CIA’s Stockholm station chief’s interest in recruiting Palme, Farmer thought it was a bad idea and that it would merely offend Palme.

Palme was also actively engaged in helping the Swedish military intelligence services during the same period, giving them information about his trips behind the iron curtain as a student leader in the early 1950s. He was also involved in building up the “Stay Behind” network, a top secret Swedish resistance movement trained to be activated in the case of Soviet occupation. In December 1950, Palme organized a conference in Stockholm which led to the creation of the International Students Conference. The CIA, which was secretly funding the organization, wanted Palme to lead ISC. Palme was more interested in pursuing a career with the Swedish Foreign Ministry, although he was a member of the  organization during the ISC’s early years. Palme’s contacts were generally seen as positive, according to former Swedish intelligence official  Engman. “It was an additional secret channel to the Americans. But Palme was no CIA agent. If anything, his own interests and convictions coincided with American intelligence strategies during those years,” said Engman. However, according to Palme’s son Marten Palme, his father was disappointed by the CIA’s involvement in the ISC.
“It’s accurate to say that Olof was inspired early on by American ideals. Not the least when it came to his politics. But he told no one of his contacts with American agents in the 1950s, other than that the CIA had infiltrated the ISC and that this disappointed him,” he said.

Former CIA deep cover agent Gene “Chip” Tatum: “Our mission in ´Pegasus´ was to align foreign leaders, foreign financiers, and foreign countries with the policies of the United States using first diplomacy. If diplomacy did not work, then it was turned over to the Pegasus unit to work in one of the three arenas that we were professionals at working: Blackmail, intimidation and murder” This is the unimaginable, and hard to understand this story of a 25 year CIA deep cover agent, his missions as a professional asset into service of the United States Government under Vice-President, and later President, George Bush. We publish this abbreviated transcript of Gene “Chip” Tatum´s appearance on the Rob
Lorei radio show, “Radioactivity” on WMNF, Tampa, Florida, July 1996 of one special reason. 1997 that GeneTatum appearance in Peter Ford´s radioshow in KIEV radio in Los Angeles. He told Mr. Ford the same fantastic story, but also in a short passage that his “Hit Team” Pegasus, in the ultra secret, international G7 run OSG-orgarnization, 1986 on Vice-President George Bush´s command was tasked with eliminate the Swedish Prime minister and United Nations peace mediator Olof Palme.

After hitchhiking through the USA, he returned to Sweden to study law at Stockholm University. During his time at university, Palme became involved in student politics, working with the Swedish National Union of Students. In 1951, he became a member of the social democratic student association in Stockholm, although it is asserted he did not attend their political meetings at the time. The following year he was elected President of the Swedish National Union of Students. Some individuals many from the right wing and the Swedish Moderate`s and even from inside the Swedish Police force (which were totally blue at that time) disliked him to the point of hatred and pursued a virtual persecution
of his person. But the majority of Swedes sensed his strong solidarity with the social and economic aspirations of the Swedish people and loved him as the father for the Swedish nation he was.

Palme was no typical Swedish politician. He was a radical, outspoken and charismatic leader advocating peace, socialism and solidarity. His foreign policy is still a subject of much discussion. It is also hard to give an historical account of his life, in many ways his life and actions are still too relevant to current political debate. Many young people today don’t know who he was. Marten Palme (Olof`s son) say: That there is no doubting his father’s continued impact on older generations. He was an opponent of the Vietnam War and the Cold War; he fought against Apartheid and adopted the causes of many oppressed peoples around the world. It seems this part of Palme’s legacy has been carried on with a slight change of style.

Palme attributed his becoming a socialist to three major influences:

*In 1947, he attended a debate on taxes between the Social Democrat Ernst Wigforss, the conservative Jarl Hjalmarson and the liberal Elon Andersson

*The time he spent in the United States in the 1940s made him realize how wide the class divide was in America, and the extent of racism against black people

*A trip to Asia in 1953 had opened his eyes to the consequences of colonialism and imperialism. Olof Palme was a true and honest man of the people, with visions that was of real humanity rang. This was a characteristic most politics lack today.

The Murder

On 28 February 1986 at 11:21 pm, Olof Palme, the young charismatic world famous Prime Minister of Sweden, was walking home with his wife Lisbet from the Grand Cinema on Sveavagen street in central Stockholm, and was fatally shot from behind at close range. His wife, Lisbet Palme, was hit by a second bullet, but survived. The lone shooter, wearing a heavy overcoat then jogged away. He disappeared from Lisbet’s view through a tunnel at the end of the street. Since Palme had no bodyguards this night? incredible! one of the only nights without bodyguards and get killed immediately? There were not any witnesses to the actual assassination, other than Palme’s wounded wife. Nor was there a murder
weapon, or any other physical evidence, found at the crime scene at the Dekorima corner. Which i visited myself  a few hours after the assassination, the crime scene was also very poorly restricted. with just a Police streamer surrounded no more then 15 kvm?.

Bad Police work lead to that it was a civilians who found the bullets, which later became very interesting. In December 1988, almost 22 months later, Christer Pettersson, a brain damaged drug user, a real looser who had previously been convicted of manslaughter ( with a knife, he was known for, to only use knifes), was picked out of a police lineup by Lisbet Palme. Christer Petterson was the only one in the line up with (Light Shoes on) and anyone could also see the difference between him and his really awful face, and the fake ones in the line up which looked “normal”. The line up stank.

He was arrested, tried and convicted of Palme’s murder , entirely on the basis of her testimony. On appeal, however, that verdict was thrown out because no motive had been established, no murder weapon had been found, and the court found inconsistencies in of Mrs Palme’s testimony. Pettersson was then acquitted on all charges. I don`t believe for 1 sec that Christer Petterson did this murder.

Because, first of all just a few days after the murder of  Olof Palme. The British Intelligence, MI6, received a strange report: the man who had murdered Olof Palme had been acting under orders from the SA security police. Members of the death squad Koevoet, or COIN, were behind the murder. The SA agent, Craig Williamson, was mentioned as the designer of the plans to murder Palme, aided by Swedish police officers.

Swedish Daily News 9/10/96. At about the same time, Karl-Gunnar Bäck, the GS of the Civil Defence Force Association was contacted by an old acquaintance from England. He told him that the MI6 had information on the murder of Olof Palme. The informant claimed that Palme was murdered by members of the SA security forces. A Swedish Policeman was also indicated to have participated. Bäck recorded the information on a cassette and send it to Säpo (the Swedish Security Police) in Uppsala. Months passed by and nobody ever got back in touch with him. But late summer 1986 Bäck was suddenly informed that “the leads had been investigated and had led to nothing”. Bäck was surprised. Säpo had never bothered to speak to him and hadn’t even asked for his informant’s name. It is now established that the Palme investigators neither knew of the tape, nor whether or not the lead had been investigated. Säpo claims it is impossible to find the tape. But the information certainly raised some serious questions.

Lets take a look at the supposed weapon and bullet.

Sweden’s absolutely most experienced crime scene investigator was at the murder scene searching for bullets Saturday the 29 of October 1988 the newspaper Evening Post presented a amazing article. It was an interview with an old Police Chief  Wincent Lange, who was at the time of the murder retired. But this time he could not be silent, and questioned the authenticity of these bullets. These bullets are pure fake he said, they are put there as a decoy to mislead the Police he said. He also said that this murder probably was a conspiracy and it was very professional done. During the murder night a crime scene investigation was made at the murder scene. This investigation started at around 01.10 almost 2 hours after the murder and was carried out by two of Swedish Police best and most experienced crime scene experts. Börje Moberg and Torsten Kviberg Who had over 20 years each at Swedish CSI. But no bullets were found at all? At daylight the investigation continued for more the 7 hours with extreme accuracy, with the aid of supersensitive metal detectors. the area was divided up in squares were each square was very carefully searched. The only thing found, was a button from Olof Palmes shirt.

Moberg taking a very firm stand on that there could not have been any bullets at the crime scene at all. So he was totally surprised and shocked over the fact that a civilian found a bullet on Mars the 2nd a total of 37 hours after the murder. The bullets were found only a few steps from the spot were Prime minister Palme fell to the ground. This place had been very thoroughly searched and no bullets were found. Is this possible that a civilian found not only one but both bullets a few steps from the spot were Prime minister Palme fell to the ground, which had been searched with supersensitive metal detectors in the hands of very experienced CSI officers? Absolutely NOT. Bullets are FAKE period.

A S&W .357 gun looks almost the same as a Sturm Ruger (USA), Llama, Escodin or Rudy (all three made in Spain) But it’s what you load them with that’s make`s the change. From the last commission of inquiry 1999:88 page 152 you can read: The bullet’s that’s been founded comes from an ammunition from a gun with caliber .357 and have the same technical data as S&W .357. The murder is probable committed with a gun similar with this. Of this revolver type there is a handful manufactures and must popular is the Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum. The Police has therefore come to the conclusion that this is the gun type he has been killed with.

A gun has different length on the pipe, pipe length shorter then 4 inch makes a different look on the rear on the bullet then on a 6 inch pipe therefore the police come to the conclusion that the gun has to be 4 inch or longer. A gun with 6 inch pipe weight over 1 kg and is longer then 30 cm. During the 1980s, the most important development was the Smith & Wesson L-Frame line of .357 Magnum revolvers: Models 581, 586, 681, and 686. These had a significant impact on both law enforcement and sporting markets and became the most popular revolvers ever introduced. Smith & Wesson. S & W Magnum .357 6 inch pipe. The speed on the bullet depends on two things the ammunition and the length on the pipe. We know the ammunition and the bullet: Winchester-Western .357 Magnum Metal Piercing 158 grains. I don’t know pipe length, but the longer pipe the higher speed on the bullet. And you can even buy the bullet separate and make your own ammunition. It is established that there was a 0,26 gram differential’s on the new bullet and the bullet that hit Olof Palme is that enough to make the holes in his tie What makes me worried, is that it`s both a smaller diameter and a smaller rib wide on the bullet that hits Lisbeth. When a material gets warm it grows, does it means that the first bullet hits Lisbeth and not the second? That gave me something to think about! The first bullet fired from the front, from left side of  Olof Palme. The angle of Lisbeth Palme’s back injury shows that she had been in a position where she without awareness blocked the second shot, which traveled with a very accurate projectile course against Olof Palme. One eyewitness Anders Bjorkman say: The man shoot Olof with his left hand and hold the right arm on Olof Palme’s shoulder. No amateur could do this so perfectly and cold blooded.

The bullet, which passed through his body, was stated recovered after police officers collected snow from the area and melted it, Police Commissioner Hans Holmer said at a news conference today. It matched a bullet found earlier that had passed through Mrs. Palme’s clothing, grazing her skin, as she turned toward her husband, who had been walking a pace or so behind her. Earlier reports said Mr. Palme had been hit by two bullets. Mr. Holmer described the copper tipped lead bullet as highly unusual for Sweden, saying it matched none of the 500 to 600 bullets in his department’s collection. He said foreign police and security services had been asked to cooperate in tracing the bullet’s origin. Ballistics experts said the bullet was designed to pierce metal and would have penetrated a bulletproof vest. .357 Magnum Was Probably Used Mr. Holmer, who worked closely with Mr. Palme for many years as head of the Swedish secret service, later said in a television interview that his experts believed that the bullet was probably fired by a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum. ”You don’t need to be a professional,” the commissioner said, ”but the person who uses it must know about the strength of the weapon.”

Lisbeths coat is also a bit of a mystery.

According to the photograph who took the pictures for Aftonbladet, Lisbeth arrives to the hospital in a different coat then the one she warn when stepping into the ambulance after the killing on Sveavägen with her shot husband. She also arrives in a Volvo Police car and not in the Ambulance. I find this a little hard to explain. The departure time for the ambulance also seems like a very important question for the Police. According to the alarm central, the driver of the ambulance get the question about departure time not only once but twice? why was this so important? In Sven Aners “Palme News” Aner writes several of pages about this change of cote. In the commission report nothing is even mentioned about a coat swift?

Why was Lisbeth so apprehensive towards the Police, after the murder? Expressen: Swedish newspaper wrote: 27/2-96 The police wanted to read in Olof Palmes private time manager. Lisbeth Palme have the books and refuse to let the police read them, she says they are strictly private and should not give the police any leads. The relationship between Lisbeth Palme and the police has been very cold almost from the time of the murder.

The Time Line

Thanks to time stamps on records for radio and tele communication, many events have been determined with a very high precision.

23:21:30 — The Palme couple are shot.

23:22:20 — The 90000 SOS emergency line receives a phone call. An eye witness says there is ‘murder on Sveavägen’, and is immediately redirected to the police. However the phone call is not redirected properly and the caller is not put through to the police.

23:23:40 — A Järfälla Taxi switchboard operator calls directly to the police dispatch center on behalf of one of its drivers on the scene.
He can not, however, give any more details than that someone has been shot at the corner Sveavägen/Tunnelgatan.

23:24:00 — The first police patrol arrives at the scene. Stationed on Kungsgatan, a few hundred feet from the scene, the patrol is alerted by a second taxi driver who heard the emergency call via the taxi radio.

23:24:40 — The police dispatch center is contacted by the SOS alarm central concerning the shooting on Sveavägen. The dispatch center operator denies knowledge about any such events.

23:24:00–23:25:30 — A second police patrol, a patrol wagon, arrives at the crime scene. The patrol was stationed at Malmskillnadsgatan at the time of murder, not far from the perpetrator’s escape route. They are ordered by the commanding officer at the scene, Superintendent Söderström, to immediately take up the hunt for the perpetrator. If they were stationed at Malmskillnadsgatan, why did they not see the killer coming up there?

23:25:00 — A patrolling ambulance is stopped at the scene and gives immediate assistance to the victims.

23:26:00 — The police dispatch center calls the SOS emergency center to assure them they are informed about the events on the Sveavägen/Tunnelgatan intersection.

23:27:00 — A third police patrol wagon arrives at the scene; the patrol was refueling at a gas station when they were called out to the scene.

23:27:00 — A second ambulance arrives at the scene to assist their colleagues from the first ambulance.

23:28:00 — The first ambulance leaves the scene, rushing for the Sabbatsberg hospital with prime minister Olof Palme and his wife. Mrs Palme, not being severely wounded, refuses to leave her husband. (arrives to the hospital in a Police car with a different coat on?, how could they have time to do this in 3 min and 40 sec?) Distance is 1,3 km traveling time without any traffic is about 2 min. this leaves you with maximum 1 min and 40 sec to first change car and then also first find another coat and then change it?

23:30:00 — Superintendent Söderström contacts the police dispatch center to inform them that it is the prime minister who has been shot.

23:31:40 — The SOS central is informed that the ambulance has arrived to the hospital.

00:06:00 — Prime Minister Olof Palme is pronounced dead at the Sabbatsberg hospital.

00:45:00 — Vice prime minister Ingvar Carlsson arrives at Rosenbad.

01:10:00 — First radio broadcast about the murder.

04:00:00 — First TV broadcast about the events.

05:15:00 — The government holds a press conference.

Motives and some other theories

South Africa :
Sweden stood for more than 50% of the ANC’s civilian budget in the 80′s. Sweden was one of the countries that was pushing sanctions hardest and the first to carry them out after 1985 when it really started. But assassinating one person doesn’t make much sense. The government neither the conservative one didn’t change its policies towards South Africa.

Swedish extreme right wing groups:
They hated Palme. But to the extend that they wanted to kill him? Might be a possibility. But it is very difficult to get information about these circles. But (according to Tor Sellström) there is something that starts in Katanga and there are links to mercs in South Africa see Lasse Berg’s documentary film: “Lieutenant Erik”. It leads to Rhodesia, to the Seychelles coup , to the World Anti Communist League and to UNITA and through that to Angola and Executive Outcomes.

Other groups or organizations:
Palme could be the victim of a Police plot, or a Kurdish terrorist group, or the CIA/P2 Mossad and of international arms dealers.

PKK:
Hans Holmer, the Stockholm police commissioner, followed up an intelligence lead passed to him supposedly by Bertil Wedin and arrested a number of Kurds living in Sweden, after allegations that one of their organizations, the PKK, was responsible for the murder. The lead proved inconclusive however and ultimately led to Holmer’s removal from the Palme murder investigation. Fifteen years later, in April 2001, a team of  Swedish police officers went to interview the Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Acalan in a Turkish prison about Acalan’s allegations that a dissident Kurdish group, led by his ex-wife, murdered Palme. The police team’s visit proved to be futile.

South Africa connection:
On February 21, 1986 just a week before Olof Palme was murdered. Palme made the keynote address to the Swedish People’s Parliament Against Apartheid held in Stockholm, attended by hundreds of anti-apartheid sympathizers as well as leaders and officials from the ANC and the Anti-Apartheid Movement such as Oliver Tambo. Cuban artist Rafael Enriquez depicted Palme on a poster with an extract from that 1986  speech::”Apartheid cannot be reformed, it has to be eliminated.” Ten years later, towards the end of September 1996, Colonel Eugene de Kock, a former South African police officer, gave evidence to the Supreme Court in Pretoria alleging that Palme had been shot and killed in 1986 because he “strongly opposed the apartheid regime and Sweden made substantial contributions to the ANC”. De Kock went on to claim he knew the person responsible for Palme’s murder. He alleged it was Craig Williamson, a former police colleague and a South African superspy. A few days later, Brigadier Johannes Coetzee, who used to be Williamson’s boss, identified Anthony White, a former Rhodesian Selous Scout with links to the South African security services, as Palme’s actual murderer. Then a third person, Swedish mercenary Bertil Wedin, living in Northern Cyprus since 1985, was named as the killer by Peter Caselton, a member of Coetzee’s assassination squad which was known as Operation Longreach. The following month, in October 1996, Swedish police investigators visited South Africa but were unable to uncover the evidence to substantiate de Kock’s claims.

P2 and Irangate:
According to controversial American political activist and conspiracy theorist, Lyndon LaRouche, Olof Palme’s murder was related to this arms-trade operation. The earlier discovery of documents in the police search of the Malmoes premises of Karl-Erik Schmitz, and Prime Minister Palme’s concern with those arms trafficking matters, were among the prime known evidences of motive for what must have been a carefully prearranged insertion of an assassin at the relevant moment of opportunity.

Italian magazine Panorama revealed that president Francesco Cossiga had sent a letter to prime minister Giulio Andreotti after having reviewed the content of interviews between RAI journalist Ennio Remondino and former CIA agents Richard Brenneke and Ibrahim Razin. President Cossiga was concerned by the statements, and said: “If the government were to think that the information had any basis, I think that it should inform the judiciary authority and the Parliamentary Commission on Massacres and, at the level of the bilateral relations, the relevant authorities in the U.S.A. and in Sweden.” Otherwise, the journalists who published the information without previously thoroughly checking its validity, should be punished. According to those sources, three days before Olof Palme’s death, Licio Gelli, member of P2 free masonic lodge, had sent a telegram to Philip
Guarino, at that time an important member of the Republican circle around George H.W. Bush. This telegram said: “Tell our friend that the Swedish palm will be felled.”

CIA agent Razin claims that the National Security Archives have the text of the telegram. According to him, P2 would have been interested by Olof Palme’s murder because Sweden was one of the main protagonists of the illegal weapons traffic at the time of the Iran-Iraq war when Palme was prime minister and thus Palme was surely aware of what was happening. According to an interview of Gene “Chip” Tatum by “Free Republic”, Palme was assassinated because he refused an arms-trade. The arms trade would have been part of the agreement reached during the October Surprise. Ibrahim Razin also told that DINA agent Michael Townley, who has been convicted for Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier’s assassination, actually was in Stockholm a week before Olof Palme’s murder.

Somebody gained big on getting Olof Palme out of the way, otherwise an operation like this never would occurred. I`ll put my money on the right blue wing in Sweden, (Finance giant`s, Police and / or fanatic Moderate`s ) who never could win an election as long as Olof Palme was alive, they also could not move all their precious money abroad to avoid tax, as long as Olof Palme was alive.

Lets take a closer look to what i feel is the right track to follow.

This following scenario and track has certainly not complied with by the Police but by a handful of dedicated journalists, in particular, Sven Anér. Who have many years of detail work found lying by the prosecution, secret files scanned and tracked down and questioned key witnesses. This is the lead that he followed.

The following picture:

There has been an internal investigation of six Policemen known for right-wing sympathies, who paid, on several occasions, visits to South Africa in the mid 1980s (1985-87. Is it a coincidence that the Police station (called the Norrmalm ?? precinct) where they used to work is next door to the Birger Jarl Hotel where Williamson used to stay? [Madi Gray, 2/10/96]. According to Alcalá, when the Police is confronted with information of undemocratic, nazi and conspiracy colleagues, they don’t, which could be expected, interrogate every person available for interrogation A BIG Question: Why? The Policemen of this precinct had a record during the 1980s of being involved in Police brutality: there was a so-called “the baseball gang or league” which was involved in extreme right wing politics and former Policemen of that precinct left it to open up so-called private security companies and were later involved in arms trade. This precinct covers the area where Palme was murdered. Some Policemen were that night out on the streets, but nothing was seen and according to Sven Anér the Police station didn’t react adequately after the murder was reported. Of one Policeman it is known that he was too exhausted to chase after Palme’s murder due to having consumed a can of coke just before arriving at the scene of the crime.

Other observations that has raised big question marks!

Stockholm, 28th February 1986, Old Town underground station. The time is 20:35. No one get`s out of the subway car. A woman see something odd. She notice a man who has an antenna sticking out of his jacket. Just before she comes to the exit she turns and looks curiously on how the man speaks in a walkie-talkie. Four minutes later, Olof Palme was to buy a subway ticket at exactly this station.

20:37 In a staircase hundred meters from the subway entrance a witness see a man who speaks in a walkie-talkie. Twenty feet away is Olof Palme and Lisbet walking towards the metro station.

20:38 Another woman notice in this metro station, two men who seem to keep a look out for someone or waiting.

20:39 As the Palme couple hits the subway entrance. Thirty feet behind them is a man with dark skin. A witness said that the man was haunting the Palme couple.

20:43 The Metro comes into the station. A witness is in the same car as the Palme couple enters in. She noticed a man at the last moment, jump into the wagon and seems to be keeping watch on Olof Palme. He has dark skin. The driver is also the conductor. He gets out at each station and monitors the service. In so doing, he sees how the two men following Olof Palme in to the Metro.

20:47 underground station Rådmansgatan. The Palme couple leaves the Metro. The driver noticed that the same two men disembark and continue to follow the Palme couple.

20:50 Palme enter the Grand cinema. Other visitors to the cinema told the Police later that they had observed a man with a walkie-talkie in the street corner.However No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony.

The time now is 21:10. Just between cinema and subsequent murder location is a man with a walkie-talkie seen again according to witnesses. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.

22:10 In the immediate area of the future murder spot, is a man with a walkie-talkie. Witnesses have said.  No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.

23:00 The film Mozart comes to an end. Approximately nine hundred meters from the cinema 2 witnesses see how a Police car caught up chasing a bus. From a Police car a man in plainclothes entered the bus. The 2 witnesses is a bit puzzled.  No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.

23:05 The film is now completed. Fifty meters from the Grand cinema front 2 other witnesses see three men running. They run parallel to Olof Palme`s supposed way home.  No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either

23:10 Cinema begins to be empty. At that time three hundred meters east of the cinema sits a witness and looking out her window. She has observed since more than twenty minutes, two men standing and talking next to a car with the engine running in walkie-talkies. When a Police car passes, they are suddenly gone. At the same time, in the park three hundred meters west of the cinema is a Police car on the sidewalk. A witness asks why it is not 2 officers in this car as usual. He sits there but does not use the Police radio, instead he speaks in a walkie-talkie. She could hear his last words before leaving…”oh well” suddenly the Police car moves away from there.

23:12 A witness looks at Tranebergsbron and see many Police cars going after each other in the direction of the Grand cinema. Although such a concentration of Police cars are rarely seen in Stockholm at this time. Central Police station knows nothing about this.

23:15 Palme is already on Sveavägen. a witness looks at the junction Bagares David Street and Government Street, and approximately 400 meters east of the cinema, he can see the two men looking into an empty storefront. While speaking in two walkie-talkies. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.

23:16 Corner Sveavägen and Tunnel Street. Five minutes before the murder. A few meters away from the murder scene a taxi driver sees a man with a walkie-talkie. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.

23:17 A stroller, we call him John, and his girlfriend goes Adolf Fredrik Church Street towards Sveavägen. Fifty meters from the spot where Palme will die within a few moments, John can see yet a man with a walkie talkie. When John pass him he turns around and looks him straight in the face. John recognize this man. He is quite certain that he has seen this man before. It`s Alfred. Alfred is a Police officer.

23:21 2 friends traveling in a car towards the murder scene. When they are nearly one hundred feet from the spot they hear two shots.
A white Volvo then drives up and block them.

23:22 A witness stands with his car at the intersection of the red light Sveavägen and Tunnel Street. He suddenly becomes a witness to the fatal shots. He tries to immediately alert the Police on his NMT mobile phone. The call was recorded with the mobile phone company, but no one answers at the Police station. The Police in the Swedish capital can strangely not be alerted. It is only possible 23:26 now how weird is that?

23:23 The murderer has fled up the stairs to Malmskillnadsgatan. There he runs past the a witness, who notice that he is trying to put something down in a small plastic bag, and he seems to have trouble with a a zipper. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.

23:23. Another witness to the murderer, follows him on David Bagares Street, 150 feet from the eastern murder scene, he loses track. The street is totally empty of people. Only one Police car slowly drive past without the blue lights on.?

23:24 Near the murder scene are three men with walkie-talkies seen by three witnesses. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.

Still 23:24. Five minutes before the murder, the alarm goes out over polisradio included a press photographer who can hear this on his special receiver, he can hear a walkie-talkie call: “Hey you up there .. how does it look like ..” – “Good, but it’s damn cold” – “The Prime Minister is shot” The last statement sounded more pleased than dismayed, as if something was done. No real follow up or action was taken by the Police regarding this testimony either.

23:25. Four minutes after the shots. Five hundred meters east of the murder scene, bus 43 to Eriksberg Street stops. Two men want to get on. They both seem excited. One of them is getting in, the second one hesitates at the bus door. Then he looks up at the ceiling, notice the bus number, and then moves out . In his hand he has a gray plastic bag in A4 format with a zipper. The same type of a plastic bag, the earlier witness has seen carried by the fleeing killer two minutes earlier. In such plastic bags Stockholm civilian Police officers carry their service firearms. This situation is not only noticed by the bus driver and the witnesses but also another traveler, TV producer Lars Kranz.

Four days later, Lars Kranz sits in court and watch his monitors. There he sees a man, he notice him because of his unusual cheek party, that anyone will recognize instantly. It is the man with the plastic bag he saw on bus 43. He takes out the man’s name. It is Alfred. The same Alfred John saw just before the assassination, one of the walkie-talkie men. But there is also another witness who can confirmed Alfred’s presence at the murder scene, that is the bus driver on bus 43. He later also identified other man who stepped into bus 43, his name is Gunnar.

Gunnar and Alfred are Police officers in the Police district of Norrmalm Stockholm. Gunnar and Alfred during their Police career almost always worked together. In less than two years the team was notified 70 times for brutal tactics against civilians, but very rarely convicted. Always missing some documents, and the two coleges was not notified. These two so called officers at the time also interrogated a suspected drug dealer to death in a room down the in Tube Station. Why wasn’t this track followed?

Gunnar and Alfred were also members of the notorious baseball gang. A civilian unit founded in 1982 by Norrmalm Police to restrict the street and drug crime. But this was done so brutally that group was dissolved a year later. The two so called officers worked as Policemen in the notorious baseball gang together until the assassination of Olof Palme. The right-wing twisted baseball gang was said to harbor fanatical hatred towards Olof Palme. The Baseball gang`s creator was indeed none other than Hans Holmer. TV producer Lars Kranz is since more then thirty years a journalist and a trained crime reporter. After he had recognized that Alfred was the man who stepped on the bus, he knew what he had to do. He confronts reconnaissance management director Hans Holmer the same evening after a press conference in the radio housing. Kranz tells Holmer of his sighting and shows a newspaper with a picture of Alfred. Holmers ask who it is, is Holmer backing up one of his friends by this question? a friend that can disappear quickly. Why was Holmérs bodyguard`s consisting of members from the baseball gang.?

There are to many “co incidents” about this murder. And if anyone starts to look into it, they can see that this was a conspiracy setup.

Who covered it up?

First consider this fact. Olof Palme was shot to death on a Stockholm street one week after he spoke intensively at an anti-apartheid rally reportedly attended by Williamson. Swedish police admit they had leads to the South African police at the time. Yet even now, the revelations of former secret police agents testifying before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Johannesburg can shock and enrage. Eugene de Kock, head of a police hit squad, provided grisly details about how his agents deliberately massacred whole families of those opposing the apartheid system. In the late 1980s, Dirk Coetzee, de Kock’s predecessor as senior officer in the police murder unit, also confessed to some of the same crimes after he defected. Now both men added a new admission to the public record of apartheid’s murders. They say that the 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was part of an operation called “Long Reach,” carried out by a unit of the South African secret police headed by Craig Williamson. Williamson admits he was involved in three other murders. But denies this one. According to the Swedish news agency TT, Coetzee said that 80 or 90 South African agents participated in planning Palme’s murder.

Let us assume this is true. Certainly, these fanatical racists would have had no moral qualms in murdering the outspoken Palme. But it raises a bigger question. Who helped them? There is actual evidence and a possibility that leads pointing towards those certain twisted right winged Swedish Police officers, and that they could of helped carrying this out.

Most mysterious about this theory is how could an operation so big be kept a secret from the international intelligence community, nor from those elements in the Swedish bourgeois closest to the Police agencies. Their attitude towards Palme was among many well known to be full of hate. They could have insisted that his murderers be apprehended, or they could have agreed on a cover up? One can only speculate. But other factors, besides Palme’s role as a vigorous bourgeois opponent of apartheid, must have weighed heavily. Take for example in 1986, the capitalist ruling classes of Britain and the United States were solidly behind the slash and burn policies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. Social programs won in mass struggles 50 years earlier were on the chopping block. Sweden was considered the extreme example of the “welfare state” a capitalist country with comprehensive medical care, subsidized housing, high wages and low unemployment. Palme’s Social Democratic Party had never expropriated the bourgeoisie, but through social programs paid for by hefty taxes on the rich they tried to redistribute the wealth more evenly. Even thou imperialism tolerated and even cultivated social democracy when many of Europe’s workers were attracted to the more revolutionary alternative of the communist parties. But with the retreat of the communist movement and the sweeping move to the right begun by Thatcherism, Swedish social democracy began to be regarded with strong hostility by the bourgeoisie everywhere. Not long after Olof Palme’s death, the Social Democrats were defeated and Sweden joined the long list of countries where the workers’ gains were hacked away. The working class organizations of Sweden should be playing a leading role in pursuing this investigation, to the truth. Use their power to take it to the top and find out who might have ordered a cover up?

End note:
I do not blame any particular group or person for this murder, i`m barely scratching the surface of the filthy management`s WYSIWYG facade. It smells dirty rotten and dying. Because at the end nobody can escape the final verdict from “Those Who From Heaven To Earth Came” because they will REALLY decide if some of their descendent’s`s atrocity`s or deeds has been good or bad. Olof Palme is considered one of the great heroes within the Swedish social democracy. Justice, equality and peace were very close to his heart.

The Leeds International Peace Lecture was held in memory of the late Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme, a world leader and campaigner for peace and human rights. This is a very honorable gesture from The Leeds International Peace Lecture, which we thank them for.

Pierre Schori, Chairman of the Olof Palme Memorial Fund and director of FRIDE, gives the introductury speech at the Olof Palme Prize Ceremony 2008 at the Swedish Parliament to the award winner Dr Denis Mukwege.

Olof Palme talks with Shirley Maclaine about the importancy of nuclear power, and the need to be careful with oil and the inviroment. Filmed for Swedish Television:s 1977.

Some of my sources:

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Fiction:
The Swedish fictional thriller movie The Last Contract shows very well what could of happened.

This is a very good movie and theory about what happened. It`s a combination of the South African track and the Police track, and that is very close to what really happened i think. Palme’s assassination was said to have been planned by the CIA. A Special Branch detective, “Roger Nyman”, is on the trail of the international hit-man but finds his line of inquiry is blocked by senior police officers and the Swedish establishment. The reason suggested for the murder is the firm stance taken by Palme in rejecting deployment of nuclear weapons in Scandinavia. The assassin himself is then killed, to cover any trace back to the CIA.

Updated 02-15-2013 (first published 2010)

A former Swedish Police SUPERINTENDENT writes: “I have gradually come to the conclusion that the responsible authorities have primarily tried to cover up the event”

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