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Sweden/Finland: Social democrats cooperate in the fight againstcommunists

01 September 1998

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The Swedish former Social Democratic Minister for Foreign Affairs Sten Andersson has confirmed on Finnish television that the Social Democrats in Sweden and Finland co-operated in the surveillance and registration of communists. "To not co-operate, would have been a breach of duty", Andersson claimed. "We know that with the immigration of workers from Finland to Sweden there came quite a few communists, who had been educated at the Sirola-Institute. The Sirola-Institute was a school for communist party members, who had - according to Andersson - specific missions in Sweden. The significance of these revelations is how the cooperation between the Swedish Intelligence IB and the Finnish Operation P was financed. In Finland Operation P did not receive any money from the state or the social-democratic party, but was hidden as "entertainment expenses" in the accounts of the some of the largest private companies.

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