FAMOUS SWEDISH AUTHOR - ANTI-ZIONIST & LEFTIST - EXPOSED AS KGB SPY

STOCKHOLM NEWS: Famous journalist worked for the KGB

Journalist and writer Jan Guillou, one of Sweden’s most well known public figures, carried out assignments for the Soviet security agency KGB forty years ago, newspaper Expressen writes today, and refers to formerly classified files of the Swedish Security Service.

Guillou confirms that he got paid by the KGB for carrying out assignments but claims that the motive was to expose the work of KGB in Sweden. He denies to have carried out any actual spying.

The Security Service files on Jan Guillou, who was declassified after a request by Expressen, shows that he in 1967 was recruited as an agent by the KGB. During five years time did he then have secret meetings with the Soviet KGB-officer Jevgenij Gergel.

Guillou has made tens of million kronor on his best-seller novels about the fictitious secret agent Carl Hamilton, who often fought against the KGB and the military equivalent GRU. Guillou also recently published his professional memoir where he in detail describes his successful career. But his cooperation with the Soviet security agency is left out.

Jan Guillou admits that he wrote a memorandum about the Swedish Social Democratic Party’s stance towards ‘the Vietnam movement’ and got paid for this. But he denies to have carried out any espionage on the request of the KGB.

The Swedish Security Service was informed by Arne Lemberg, a colleague and close friend to Guillou, about the meetings with the KGB-officer. Lemberg also told the Swedish Security Service that Guillou, assigned by the KGB, had asked for his help to steal an phone book from the American Embassy.

“I believe that is made up”, Jan Guillou says to Expressen.

Arne Lemberg was shot dead by military troops during a journalist assignment in Uganda 1979.

Guillou recognise that he held contact with the KGB until 1972.

”We never did anything else than talked politics”, he says.

His contact person at the KGB, Jevgenij Ivanovitj Gergel, is, according to a spokesperson from the Russian embassy, deceased since many years.

According to a newly published book by Gunnar Ekberg, who has worked as an informer to the Swedish Security Service, was Gergel very interested in influent persons in left wing politics. In an opinion article on the media site Newsmill he also writes that one of the organisations where Guillou was active, ‘Demokratiska Folkfronten’, had close connections with the KGB.

“One of the reasons for KGB to have these connections was to plant disinformation and propaganda”, Ekberg writes.

Exposed secret intelligence unit

In 1973 Guillou, together with fellow journalist Peter Bratt, exposed ‘Informationsbyrån’ (Information Office, IB), a secret intelligence unit within the Swedish Armed Forces. Its main purpose was to gather information about communists and other left wing radicals.

The exposure of a secret intelligence unit, without official status, lead to a political scandal, the so called IB affair.

WIKI:

Today he is an influential independent commentator of current events, particularly the conflicts in the Middle East and miscellaneous domestic issues. In his columns in Sweden's leading tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet he tends to criticize the way the United States pursues its War on Terrorism, Israeli policy towards the Palestinians, the Swedish Security Service and the powers vested in "experts" in for instance court trials.

MORE:

During the 1960s and early 1970s, Guillou was associated with the Maoist Clarté association.^[6] He was also a member of the Communist Party of Sweden (formerly known as the Communist League Marxists-Leninists), a minor Maoist party active mainly during the 1970s, for six months until he was expelled from the party for refusing to pay the monthly member fee while he was living abroad. Today he describes himself as "socialist" only.^[1]

Guillou is known for his strong support of the Palestinians and he has over the years consistently criticized Israel in harsh terms. In 1976 he wrote: "Zionism is in its foundation racist because the state of Israel is built upon an apartheid system, exactly like South Africa".^[7] He has repeatedly taken the stance that Israel is an "apartheid state" ever since.^[8] In an article published in Svenska Dagbladet in 1977, Guillou wrote: "I'm an optimist, I believe that Israel will cease to exist prior to Armageddon".^[9]

Ever since the IB affair and the resulting prison sentence for espionage in 1973, Guillou has been a strong critic of the Swedish Security Service. According to Guillou, the Security Service has listed him as a terrorist, which has led to problems with security officials when visiting other countries.^[10]

In 1977 the book Irak – det nya Arabian ("Iraq – The New Arabia"), written by Guillou and his then wife Marina Stagh, was published. In the book, which deals with Iraq under the Baath Party, it's argued that "the European idea of Iraq as a particularly violent country is neither more or less a blend of political propaganda and racist fantasies" (pp. 91). According to the authors, "the Baath regime is clearly popular and among the most stable in the Arab World" (pp. 168–169).

SCRATCH AN ANTI-SEMITE AND YOU'LL PROBABLY FIND A LEFTIST WHO WOULD LIE, STEAL, CHEAT, AND COMMIT TREASON AGAINST THE WEST.