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BBC News - Sweden widens 'foreign activity' hunt off Stockholm
In case you haven't heard, four days ago the Swedish military picked up a distress call from a Russian sub within it's territorial waters near Stockholm. Since then the Swedish Navy has launched an operation to find it before it can escape. Of course Russia blames the Dutch for the event. Then there is the "man in black" as well;
In case you haven't heard, four days ago the Swedish military picked up a distress call from a Russian sub within it's territorial waters near Stockholm. Since then the Swedish Navy has launched an operation to find it before it can escape. Of course Russia blames the Dutch for the event. Then there is the "man in black" as well;
Roland Oliphant has more on the theory that the submarine apparently stranded off the Swedish coast was undertaking a top-secret, James Bond-esque spy extraction mission. Far-fetched? Perhaps. But who knows...
"As everyone one knows, the best role of a submarine in any Cold War drama is to deliver or extract spies from hostile shores in the dead of night.
Following that logic, the vessel in question almost certainly ran into trouble while delivering a Russian agent to a remote Baltic island to do something swashbuckling and nefarious.
Exactly what such a spy might be up to is anyones guess.
After all, Russia and Sweden are not at war, and Aeroflot flies Moscow to Stockholm twice daily (from a very reasonable £73, according to the airlines website).
So unless Moscows spy agencies have lost the ability to travel incognito, there would have to be a good reason to take such a risky and laborious travel option.
Probably the kind of reason that would make a decent airport paperback."
Remember the reports last night of an enigmatic "man in black" wading off the Swedish island of Korso, raising the prospect that the submarine could have been sent to drop off or pick up an elite Russian spy?
Well, Swedish website DE claims to have found a picture of him, snapped by a local last night: