Ahead of the Women’s World Cup semi-final clash between Australia and England there was a “spy row” about secretly filming England’s tactics for the match. While the Australian team practised behind closed doors, the England team were on an open air pitch where they were closely watched by a cameraman …
Turkey has been outraged by recent incidents in Sweden where right-wing activists have publicly burned copies of the Koran. However, the Swedish defence ministry has said that these incidents have been manufactured by Russian agents. Carl-Oskar Bohlin, the Civil Defence Minister said: “Sweden is the target of a disinformation campaign …
On 6 August an unidentified male appeared at Gothenberg District Court charged with “unauthorised dealing in secret information of great importance to the security of Sweden.” There were thirty six counts of photographing or mapping defence critical facilities and two counts of sharing such intelligence with another individual (so far …
The Swedish Security Service has published its annual report (known as the Yearbook) for 2018. You can read a copy in English here: http://www.sakerhetspolisen.se/download/18.49c9bb7116a06cb41251b4/1557928465621/Yearbook-2018.pdf. Amongst the many items in the report (which is lavishly illustrated with colour pictures of Swedish intelligence folk) is a list of the top seven security …
26 February: According to a statement from the Swedish Security Service (SAPO), an individual has been arrested in central Stockholm on suspicion of “unlawful intelligence activities”. Daniel Stenling, head of the Counter-Intelligence Division of SAPO said that the individual had been recruited by a Russian intelligence officer, probably in 2017. …