SWEDEN ADDS COST OF ESPIONAGE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800040036-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 1999
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: June 12, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

CHRIS IAN? SCIENC
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Sweden
Adds Cosy
Of Espionage
The original Swedish defense
budget for the 1963-64 fiscal
year was about $800,000,000.
Extent Unknown
There has been no detailed
information about precisely
what secrets Wennerstrom gave
the Soviets and it is likely it
will never be officially known.
However,' considering his posi-
tion on the Air Force staff, it
is safe to assume the Soviets
have been fully informed about
Special to The Christian Science Monitor, every aspect of Sweden's de-
The most immediate problem
confronting the Swedish Gov-
ernment in the wake of the
Stig Wennerstrbm espionage
case is revamping of national
defense systems.
Observers estimate that it
will cost the country about
$55,000,000 to repair the dam-
age wrought by the former
Swedish Air Force lieutenant
colonel during hs 15 years of
espionage for the Soviet Union.
This year the government
plans to ask Parliament for an
o
extra defense. appropriation of ; crats and the democratic op-
$10,000,000. position parties working closely
Called `Excuse, together.
But voices already have been The Wennerstrom case and
heard from the extreme le the two votes of censure over
it in Parlia,nent, which the
wing that the Social Demo- government easily survived,
cratic government is using this may have seriously under-
opportunity to push extra mili- + mined this harmony,
tary appropriations through
Parliament using the stormy
Wennerstrom affair as an ex-
I.
Swedish observers brush l
these protests off as unim-
portant. They have not come l
I from the three democratic op-
position parties-the Conserva-
tives, the Liberals, and the
Center Party.
fenses.
This most likely includes the
development plans for System
37, the largest single defense
project ever undertaken by the
country. "System 37" plans in-
clude 800 supersonic jet fighter
planes, radar-guided missiles,
and an early warning radar
system-all of which are to be
coordinated through the use of
electronic computers. The first
planes are to be delivered in
1969.
Traditionally, defense and
foreign policy matters have
been nonpartisan questions
with both the Social Dem
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