The Local Sweden

Swedish pilots honoured by US for secretive Cold War rescue

Thu, 29 Nov 2018 17:10:25 +0100

More than three decades ago, the Swedish Air Force was involved in a secret incident in the skies above the Baltic Sea that placed them right in the middle of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Secret Swedish Cold War ops exposed

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:25:00 +0100

A top-secret Swedish air force unit with ties to NATO members Denmark and Norway operated through the Cold War and remained in operation until 1997, a new book reveals, casting fresh doubt over the country’s long-standing claims to neutrality.

Sweden to open secret files on Cold War's end

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:16:00 +0100

Sweden will on Thursday unseal classified diplomatic files dealing with the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said.

'Wallenberg and Isaak are still worth fighting for'

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 10:09:00 +0100

With Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak in prison in Eritrea and questions still swirling about the fate of Raoul Wallenberg, historian Susanne Berger argues that Sweden needs to do more to shorten its ignominious line of unsolved disappearances.

Old meat rations on sale in Sweden

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:31:00 +0200

Following revelations that Swedish meat supplies from the Cold War era are being served up in restaurants in Poland, its has been revealed that tinned rations are also on sale in Sweden.

Research reveals depth of Sweden-US Cold War relations

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:47:00 +0100

New research has shown that Sweden's relations with the United States ran more deeply during the Cold War than was previously known and the countries enjoyed a close military cooperation.