International Head Games: Turning Sweden Against the Soviets

mental_floss Blog » International Head Games: Turning Sweden Against the Soviets: "With the scene set, American and British intelligence quickly moved to exploit the opening provided by Soviet bungling with a series of “false flag” missions, in the form of submarine intrusions, which the Swedes also blamed on the Soviet Union. According to Ola Tunander’s book The Secret War Against Sweden, the intrusions were designed to create the appearance of escalating Soviet infringement of Swedish neutrality — when in fact it was American and British submarines all along. And it worked like a charm."