The World - News from April 12, 1989
An official report charged that Sweden’s security police routinely violate citizens’ civil rights and act outside the bounds of democratic controls. “The secret police (SAPO) have used bugging, not only against terrorists, but also in other types of operations that had nothing to do with murder or violence,” said the report by Sweden’s ambassador to France, Carl Lidbom. The report was commissioned by the government last year after SAPO operatives admitted taking part in a covert inquiry into the unsolved 1986 murder of Prime Minister Olof Palme. The probe collapsed after an agent was caught smuggling illegal eavesdropping equipment into Sweden.
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