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This Central Intelligence Agency translation of a 3 February 1993 IZVESTIYA article covers Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt's planned official visit to Moscow. He intended to press Russia on suspected submarine incursions into Swedish waters, and Sweden had sent Russia recordings of propeller noise. The article cites Swedish doubters, including a former coast defense leader who compared the submarine alarm to flying saucers. Russian experts called the recordings too poor to prove anything.
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## UNCLASSIFIED although the experts I know claim that this will not be easy to accomplish. The Swedish side does not possess precise and clear arguments which indisputably prove the appearance of Russian submarines in Swedish territorial waters. All the recordings of underwater noises which have been received from Stockholm are of a very poor quality. It is impossible to draw from them an unequivocal conclusion about the presence of submarines and to whom they belong. It is no accident that even the prize of 1 million Swedish krone, announced last fall for any Russian Navy sailor providing evidence of the borders being violated, has remained unclaimed. In our experts' opinions, the Swedes will have to find a way of extricating themselves honorably from an unpleasant situation which is of their own making. On the other hand, our Navy's Main Staff is also failing to give the public clear proof that Russian submarines have never been in Swedish waters except for the single incident in 1981. It is being asserted that during the Swedish premier's visit to Russia, he and President B. Yeltsin will sign a document in which both sides will pledge to cooperate in the search for the truth. How successful this cooperation will be is an open question. (endall) 3 feb 03/1358z feb BT #9059 NNNN
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 2 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.