Sixty-second edition of the N&O column / Spooks newsletter

(Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 21:19:15 +0200)

Intelligence news

Sweden

The Swedes have found the wreckage of a Swedish spy plane which vanished over the Baltic Sea more than 50 years ago. For decades, Sweden maintained that the DC-3 plane and its eight-man crew had been intercepted by the Soviets during a training flight on 13 June 1952, while Moscow insisted that it had nothing to do with the plane. Only in the late 1980s, the former USSR confirmed that the plane - which Sweden finally admitted was on a spying mission - was shot down by a Soviet fighter. (source: BBC News)