Word: andersson
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Dates: during 1951-1951
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...recent case of the Soviet spy Andersson (TIME, Nov. 12) has shaken Swedes into realizing that their cellar is not as safe as they had thought. They have shaken off most of the old habit of thought that made the Communists somehow part of the progressive Left. They grapple with the Reds, day by day, election for election, in union meetings and in the workshops. The Communists now poll only 4.8% of the vote...
...month. He had quit school at eleven and gone to work on a farm. At 18, he joined the navy. A year later, just as openly, he joined Stockholm's Communist Youth Movement. Neither Ernest nor official Sweden apparently saw anything contradictory in the two affiliations. But Ernest Andersson was too good an opportunity to be missed for long by the Russians...
...first job entailed a full report on the Stockholm navy yard. He fluffed it, forgetting to mention some minesweepers that were being built. Russian masters administered a gentle rebuke, and Andersson promised to do better next time. He passed secret after secret in prearranged code to Anisimov. Sometimes he would cycle about in civilian clothes pretending to pick berries, but really sketching details of coastal fortifications. Later he would write a report in invisible ink, put it in the toolbox of his bike and leave it parked by a prearranged lamppost. Presently he would return and find another bike...
...Questions. In time Ernest was given a new contact: Nikolai Orlov, assistant naval attaché at the Soviet embassy. Last summer, Stockholm's police got a tip to look into the frequent meetings between the two naval officers, Swedish and Russian. The police shadowed Andersson, observed his note-taking and followed his exchange of bicycles. In the toolbox of Orlov's bike, they found all the evidence they needed...
Orlov was ordered out of the country. At week's end, the Stockholm court had not yet decided what to do about Andersson. But the "most serious case of espionage ever uncovered in Sweden" had spurred others to activity, in the only large nation in Europe which officially refuses to choose between East & West. Sweden's legislators were hastily shoving through a new law to make wire tapping easier. "The only thing that puzzles me," said a Stockholm cab driver, "is how could a simple navy N.C.O. get access to so many top secrets. Also, why were...