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This CIA-distributed JPRS translation, dated 24 February 1992, reproduces an IZVESTIYA article by Marat Zubko from Stockholm. The article covers a report to the Swedish government by armed forces commander-in-chief General Bengt Gustafsson. The report cites about five probable foreign submarine violations in 1991, recorded submarine noises and a film showing a damaged anti-submarine cable off Gotland. It says the incursions apparently stopped in September 1991. The article also recounts a 1984 submarine hunt near Karlskrona.
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## Concatenated JPRS Reports, 1992 Document 4 of 12 Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Status: [STAT] Document Date: 24 Feb 92 Category: [CAT] Report Type: JPRS report Report Date: Report Number: JPRS-UMA-92-009 UDC Number: Author(s): IZVESTIYA Correspondence Marat Zubko, Stockholm: 'Uninvited Guests in the Swedish Fjords''] Headline: Swedish Report on Soviet Submarine Violations Noted Source Line: 92UM0650B Moscow IVZESTIYA in Russian 24 Feb 92 Morning Edition p 5 Subslug: [Article by IZVESTIYA Correspondence Marat Zubko, Stockholm: "'Uninvited Guests in the Swedish Fjords'"] FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [Article by IZVESTIYA Correspondence Marat Zubko, Stockholm: 'Uninvited Guests in the Swedish Fjords''] 2. [Text] Foreign submarines continued to penetrate Sweden's territorial waters in 1991, but evidently these intrusions ceased in September-that conclusion is contained in a report which Swedish Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief General Bengt Gustafsson submitted to the country's government. 3. The commander-in-chief compiles annual reports about violations of Sweden's airspace and territorial waters and their appearance is regarded with restraint here. But, this time, the Swedes impatiently awaited Bengt Gustafsson's reports on the causes for them. Not long ago, Commander Carl Andersson, famous for his active participation in the hunt for submarines, literally dumbfounded his countrymen with his declaration that all the commotion about submarine incursions is simply a chimera, like the story of flying saucers (IZVESTIYA, No. 230). 5. As we can see, this is a question of probable incursions, but nevertheless, the commander-in-chief says he was 100 percent convinced that foreign submarines have entered the country's territorial waters. 4. How did the general confirm his story? He confirms that the country's coast guard recorded 'approximately five probable violations'' off Sweden's eastern coast to the north and south of Stockholm. In his words, there was an additional pair of incursions, but with a lesser degree of probability. 6. The report notes that Swedish seamen twice managed to record
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