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From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Soviet landings in Sweden
Message-ID: <1301@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Sep-84 13:25:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1301
Posted: Mon Sep 10 13:25:17 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Sep-84 09:36:32 EDT
References: <1287@sdcrdcf.UUCP> <haring.289>
Reply-To: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

>
>> ............................The latest is 1984, preparations for the
>> invasion of neutral Sweden by reconaissance of defenses by submarines
>> and covert landing parties. The latter was reported by the L.A. Times
>> last week, quoting from one of "Jane's...of the World" books, that it
>> has been going on since 1962.........................................
>
>From what I remember in the papers here, no one gave any credence to these
>totally unsupported allegations, including the Swedish government, who said
>that such actions would constitute a declaration of war.
>
  I don't know which allegations you consider to be totally unsupported,
  but considering the # of times Sweden has gone sub-fishing recently, I
  suspect you mean the part about landing parties.  I can neither confirm
  nor deny your stmt "no one..." about landing parties, since the only
  time i heard about it was in that one article.  But i DO know that the
  "Jane's...of the World" books are widely regarded and considered
  authoratative.  We 'out-of-the-know'-people have to balance that against
  people who don't give the stmts credence.

  As for the Swedish govn saying what you said it said, last week i had
  the opportunity to talk to a Swedish film director (in USA for 1 year)
  about Sweden's policies toward the Soviets.  Hw said, in so many words,
  that Sweden was quite Finland-ized.  He said that the Swedes don't like
  the Soviets, but what is the govn to do? Due to geographic considerations
  the USSR exerts great influence on Sweden, and it must be careful not to
  ruffle the Soviet's feathers too much.  [he also said he was firmly
  convinced that Central American nations are in the same boat vis-a-vis
  the USA, but that's another story...]

  He told me that [he believed] Sweden knows darn well that those subs are
  from the USSR, and knows more details about them and their incursions
  they they admit.  He said that Sweden could easily blow one out of the
  water, but it dares not to.

	For what it's worth...

		sdcrdcf!alan

  P.S. greg@unc - it will be a little longer yet before i can respond to
  your response to my response to Hawkins response.