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Europe

Swedish officer leaked NATO secrets to Serbian lover

2007-05-14

A female officer serving in Sweden's Kosovo force is suspected of having leaked secret NATO and UN documents to a Serbian spy with whom she had a love affair. The women was sent home to Sweden last year following preliminary investigations by the Military Intelligence and Security Service (Militära underrättelse- och säkerhetstjänsten - MUST). A disciplinary committee later decided that there were not sufficient grounds for removing her from the army.

Must not have been caught in bed.

Recently however new information has emerged surrounding the case and the officer has once again been reported to the disciplinary committee. The Swedish woman is suspected of sending sensitive information to the Serbian spy via e-mail.

The man, referred to in the investigation as 'Z', was working as an interpreter for the UN in Kosovo at the time of the alleged espionage. "The loss of information caused by Z's activities is one of the most substantial in KFOR's history. It is of course extremely serious that a Swedish officer is suspected of involvement," said MUST's Klas Eksell in a statement.

If I were President (relax), I'd make it a point of instructing my Secretaries of State and Defense that we are never -- never -- to have anything to do with with Sweden's defense forces in any way shape or form, until the Swedes jugged this woman and groveled an apology.

After they had been seeing each other for around a month, Z is reported to have begun asking the Swedish officer to retrieve information about the NATO-led KFOR operation. According to MUST, Z passed any information he received on to his superiors. The investigation found that Z had worked as a spy for a number of years.

Once the illegal intelligence gathering operation was uncovered, Z was held for questioning. He then disappeared and has not been seen since.

They must have 'surrounded' him.

Though the contents of Z's computer had been deleted, investigators were able to recover extensive e-mail traffic between him and the Swedish officer. A joint KFOR, UN and MUST investigation found that the officer had thousands of secret NATO and UN documents stored on her computer.

MUST concluded in its report that the officer willingly answered Z's questions and must have known that he was a spy.

And that's not sufficient grounds to try and imprison her because ...

In the private correspondence between the pair, investigators found references to "spy business". Z however wrote to her to say: "I am not a spy. I am a doer of good."

For his spy-masters, and apparently he was good.

Posted by:mrp

#4 What a book, Steve! [*wipes away a tear*] Publish it.

Probably true, though.

Posted by: Alaska Paul 2007-05-14 23:27

#3 I'm betting she wasn't so hot.

Now I'm not being a sexist oinker, really. When the honey trap is executed successfully against a man, it's usually (not always granted) because the man thought he was hotter than he was. Gawds gift to wimmins and all that with a receding hairline, a belly and a lisp. So when a babe comes on to him, gets him into the sack and then asks for -- oh, nothing really, just a couple of things from work that no one will ever miss -- well, he's stuck, and it's his own psychopathology that did it to him.

Now then, our Swedish woman, I'm willing to bet, is middle-aged, pudgy, has a broken marriage or romance haunting her, and is despairing that life has passed her by. So when a fairly hunky Serb dude starts hitting on her, she begins to wonder if life has taken a good turn. Falls for the guy, gets into the sack a few times, and the hunky Serb asks for -- oh, nothing really, just a couple of things from work that no one will ever miss -- well, she's stuck, and it's her own psychopathology that did it to her.

Just a thought.

Posted by: Steve White 2007-05-14 20:48

#2 Exactly how much can be secret about NATO in Kosovo? We don't like or trust the Serbs, we are looking for war criminals (just not too hard), most NATO countries don't really want to be there, and we don't have any exit plan. As for the UN, who care if any one steals from them.

Me, I just want pictures of the hot swedish babe.

Posted by: Steve 2007-05-14 18:20

#1 We've seen this movie before. One of the classix of the genre.

Posted by: Seafarious 2007-05-14 16:52

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