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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 ``submarine noises'' which, according to military experts, were identical to those recorded for the first time during the violation of Sweden's sea boundaries on the west coast in 1984, and then ``caught'' 40 more times. 7. By the nature of the noises, the Swedes sort of established that they are dealing with a mini-submarine 25-35 meters long. 8. However, the primary evidence that incursions are taking place in principle, in the words of ministry of defense representatives, is contained in the video-film "'Uninvited Guests,'" which is attached to the report. Specifically, this film contains frames that were taken at the bottom of one of the bays of Sweden's Gotland Island, in which damage to the underwater anti-submarine warning cable is visible. The film states that an underwater all-terrain vehicle deployed from aboard a submarine might have damaged the signal system. 9. And still even this did not appear to be adequately convincing to many Swedes. A number of experts expressed the opinion that ships' anchors or bottom trawl nets could have damaged the cable. 10. However, there is a detail in the commander-in-chief's report that calls special attention to itself: violations of Swedish waters ceased in September 1991. And although Bengt Gustafsson says that it is still early to come to a conclusion on the subject of the cessation of the incursions, there is still something to ponder here. 11. First of all, this question arises: isn't the disappearance of periscopes from Swedish waters not associated with the replacement of the former USSR's Ministry of Defense leadership after the August putsch? If it is associated, doesn't it signify that our submarines were nevertheless violating Swedish territorial waters? The sooner the answer is given on that score, the better. 12. However, that does not completely rule out that this is only a temporary break in the 'periscope hunt'' in Sweden and that entirely different forces are related to the incursions. In this regard, attention is directed to a recent article by Investigator Tommi Lindfors in the Stockholm newspaper DAGENS NYUKHETER which told a story that was unknown to the Swedish public. In February 1984, a foreign submarine which appeared to be... American was detected in the coastal waters of southern Sweden, near Karlskrona Naval Base. 13. Having fired 22 depth-charges at the submarine, the coast guard attempted to detain it, but it did not manage to catch or destroy it. Why? Maybe because on that very same day the American ABC television company reported that U.S. Navy mini-submarines are visiting the
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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. 3 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.