A CRACK IN NATO DEFENSE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000800050006-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2000
• Sequence Number: 6
• Content Type: NSPR

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Col. Stig Wennerstrom
.A Crack CPYRGHT
hiNATO
Defense
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Russians reportedly
$gned Wennerstroem the
Lion and defense plans for
6Vfd+t hand, the Soviet
The Strategy
wedish Lapland. sumptlon that any Soviet-
Such an attack-presum- 'attempt to advance overland
ably`'rhen-nuclear in order to across the north would.:sn-
piace the burden of nuclear eounter eubatantls i Swedish
war on the NATO powers- resistance, providing time for
could out Norway in half, Norway to mobil'! an for
and give the Soviets con- NATO reinforcemlitts to be
trol of the entire northern sent from other atwiia.
Norwegian coast. virtually all of,, the adiIve
Then the Soviet Artie plus supporting s;lf llery and
'leet could move into the special troops-ti eentr-
tantic. with submarines and ated in. the i ns area
orwegian coast. as they were 11011!- To the soutk 14~ iihc key
Wenneratroem is said to
ave given the Russians full
etails of location and con-
ots in Lapland, 7'he Bwedtsh.
hobilization timetable, the
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PARIS.
defense plans for
Norway have been
Stig Wennerstroem
to the Soviet Union,
populous south of Sweden
to the sparsely settled
north.
sty fee is yews
Wennereftem, a former
adieu air attache in Wash-
has admitted or the Russians for is years.
secret Judicial inquiry in
tockholnt Is studying rami-
icat Ions of the case, which
rocked the Swedish gov-
plete revision of Swedish war
plans at a cost estimated at
about $200 million. In fact,
so widespread and detained
were Wenneratroem's activi.
ties that the damaging dts-
closures concerning the de-
11=8001=3 for Lapland weta
only a secondary part of his
work. An indirect penetra-
tion 61 NATO and U. 8. de-
fense secrets appears to have
been his prlmarq tlesion.
This is the comnil
hub of north Nor!
must be held if Nor/
On the assumpi
Sweden would be 1~
frr a strong ar;Q
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rrI .
Complicated Teals
But now, the task will be
vastly more complicated.
If there is any direct con-
tact between the Norwegian
and Swedish defense staffs.
It Is of an extremely secret
nature. Both governments
would deny: It absolutely, and
quite possibly It does not ex-
ast. at the military. and
to the .strategf0 t"olvement of the
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on a Swedish-owned railroad
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