Martin Antonenko
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A "hot" incident during the Cold War ...
On the morning of June 13, 1952, this type "Tp 79" (Swedish name for the Douglas C-47 Skytrain) of Svenska Flygvapnet, the Swedish Air Force, takes off from Stockholm / Bromma airport ...:
The captain of the plane, Alvar Älmeberg ...
... has strict orders to send coded messages to his home base at set times.
The Swedish plane is on an espionage mission that shouldn't actually be allowed to exist:
In secret consultation with NATO agencies, the Swedes have agreed to use a brand-new mobile Soviet aerial reconnaissance radar called "P-20 Перископ" ("Periscope") that the NATO military had previously near the Soviet Liepāja (Libau ) had located.
NATO only has a few drawings and blurry photos of the new device ...:
Here one can be seen in the National Military Museum in Bucharest ...:
For this purpose, the Swedish "Tp 79" is crammed with the latest NATO spy technology for radio reconnaissance, which the British have made available!
Besides the pilot, the navigator Gösta Blad ...
... and the flight engineer Herbert Mattson ...
... there are still five employees of the Swedish Försvarets radioanstalt (FRA) on board, the code name for the secret radio reconnaissance service of the Swedes:
Carl-Einar Jonsson (head of the FRA group) ...
... as well as the radio reconnaissance Ivar Svensson, Erik Carlsson, Bengt Book and Börje Nilsson. All of them have previously received - also top secret - NATO training...:
The whole thing is of course absolutely illegal and under no circumstances compatible with Swedish neutrality!
The allegedly "neutral" Swedish plane (they deliberately chose an old type from the Second World War), so make it "completely harmless" and fly towards Liepāja - at 9:26, 9:47, 10:08, 10:25, At 10:46 and 11:08 a.m., Captain Älmeberg sends the ordered short signals - the next signal that would have been due at 11:25 a.m. never comes!
The aircraft and its crew initially disappeared without a trace!
The Swedes start a large-scale search over the Baltic Sea - but initially find nothing!
Two days after the mysterious disappearance of the machine, two "Catalina" flying boats of the Svenska Flygvapnet (Svedisch Airforce)...
... came too close to the coast of Soviet Estonia - and were immediately attacked by Soviet MiG-15 interceptors ...
The Soviets shoot down one of the Catalinas - the seven crew members can save themselves ...
... and are recovered from the Baltic Sea by the west German freighter "Münsterland", which happened to pass by ...:
And then it is found a trace of the missing spy plane:
The Swedish destroyer "Sundsvall" ...
... a few days later, near the suspected crash site, hides a rubber dinghy with ammunition parts that can be clearly assigned to Soviet weapons.
For the Swedes the decisive proof that the Soviets also shot down the "Tp 79"!
The discovery of the "Sundsvall" comes at an extremely inopportune time for the Swedish government:
So far, she had lied to the public that the espionage vehicle had no bad intentions but was on a completely harmless navigation training flight.
This legend is now bursting! Now one has to admit to have spied with NATO equipment specially supplied for NATO.
The fact that by this time the Soviets had already formed their own opinion about the "neutrality" of the Swedes shows that their hunters took the espionage machine from the sky without any warning!
Because four years later, in 1956, state and party leader Nikita Khrushchev will admit it to the Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander ...
... straight away; however, it will be agreed not to give this information to the public.
The full truth will only be revealed in 1991 - after the collapse of the Soviet Union: that is when Major General Fjodor Iwanowitsch Shinkarenko became - at the time of the shooting down - Colonel of the Soviet air defense of the region in question ...
... admit in a newspaper interview that he gave one of his pilots the order to shoot down the "Tp 79" because it was clearly in Soviet airspace.
In the meantime the wreck has been found on the bottom of the Baltic Sea and recovered ...
Alvar Älmeberg, Gösta Blad, Einar Jonsson and Herbert Mattsson has all been found and identified...:
Bengt Book, Börge Nilsson, Erik Carlsson and Ivar Svensson are still missing...:
The more the once secret archives reveal today about this time, the less it can be said which side the "good guys" and the "bad guys" were on.
In any case, it wasn't quite as simple as they wanted us to believe in school ...!
On the morning of June 13, 1952, this type "Tp 79" (Swedish name for the Douglas C-47 Skytrain) of Svenska Flygvapnet, the Swedish Air Force, takes off from Stockholm / Bromma airport ...:
The captain of the plane, Alvar Älmeberg ...
... has strict orders to send coded messages to his home base at set times.
The Swedish plane is on an espionage mission that shouldn't actually be allowed to exist:
In secret consultation with NATO agencies, the Swedes have agreed to use a brand-new mobile Soviet aerial reconnaissance radar called "P-20 Перископ" ("Periscope") that the NATO military had previously near the Soviet Liepāja (Libau ) had located.
NATO only has a few drawings and blurry photos of the new device ...:
Here one can be seen in the National Military Museum in Bucharest ...:
For this purpose, the Swedish "Tp 79" is crammed with the latest NATO spy technology for radio reconnaissance, which the British have made available!
Besides the pilot, the navigator Gösta Blad ...
... and the flight engineer Herbert Mattson ...
... there are still five employees of the Swedish Försvarets radioanstalt (FRA) on board, the code name for the secret radio reconnaissance service of the Swedes:
Carl-Einar Jonsson (head of the FRA group) ...
... as well as the radio reconnaissance Ivar Svensson, Erik Carlsson, Bengt Book and Börje Nilsson. All of them have previously received - also top secret - NATO training...:
The whole thing is of course absolutely illegal and under no circumstances compatible with Swedish neutrality!
The allegedly "neutral" Swedish plane (they deliberately chose an old type from the Second World War), so make it "completely harmless" and fly towards Liepāja - at 9:26, 9:47, 10:08, 10:25, At 10:46 and 11:08 a.m., Captain Älmeberg sends the ordered short signals - the next signal that would have been due at 11:25 a.m. never comes!
The aircraft and its crew initially disappeared without a trace!
The Swedes start a large-scale search over the Baltic Sea - but initially find nothing!
Two days after the mysterious disappearance of the machine, two "Catalina" flying boats of the Svenska Flygvapnet (Svedisch Airforce)...
... came too close to the coast of Soviet Estonia - and were immediately attacked by Soviet MiG-15 interceptors ...
The Soviets shoot down one of the Catalinas - the seven crew members can save themselves ...
... and are recovered from the Baltic Sea by the west German freighter "Münsterland", which happened to pass by ...:
And then it is found a trace of the missing spy plane:
The Swedish destroyer "Sundsvall" ...
... a few days later, near the suspected crash site, hides a rubber dinghy with ammunition parts that can be clearly assigned to Soviet weapons.
For the Swedes the decisive proof that the Soviets also shot down the "Tp 79"!
The discovery of the "Sundsvall" comes at an extremely inopportune time for the Swedish government:
So far, she had lied to the public that the espionage vehicle had no bad intentions but was on a completely harmless navigation training flight.
This legend is now bursting! Now one has to admit to have spied with NATO equipment specially supplied for NATO.
The fact that by this time the Soviets had already formed their own opinion about the "neutrality" of the Swedes shows that their hunters took the espionage machine from the sky without any warning!
Because four years later, in 1956, state and party leader Nikita Khrushchev will admit it to the Swedish Prime Minister Tage Erlander ...
... straight away; however, it will be agreed not to give this information to the public.
The full truth will only be revealed in 1991 - after the collapse of the Soviet Union: that is when Major General Fjodor Iwanowitsch Shinkarenko became - at the time of the shooting down - Colonel of the Soviet air defense of the region in question ...
... admit in a newspaper interview that he gave one of his pilots the order to shoot down the "Tp 79" because it was clearly in Soviet airspace.
In the meantime the wreck has been found on the bottom of the Baltic Sea and recovered ...
Alvar Älmeberg, Gösta Blad, Einar Jonsson and Herbert Mattsson has all been found and identified...:
Bengt Book, Börge Nilsson, Erik Carlsson and Ivar Svensson are still missing...:
The more the once secret archives reveal today about this time, the less it can be said which side the "good guys" and the "bad guys" were on.
In any case, it wasn't quite as simple as they wanted us to believe in school ...!
