As it's being set out requires various agencies in three sovereign nations. And again, would be at a level of obliqueness far beyond the documented cases we have historically AFAIK. As I said way back, I don't rule it out entirely but seems far less likely than the more straightforward fact that he has a case to answer.
He may well have been set up. But still doesn't let him off the rape allegations.
I'd like him to face the allegations but, as has been suggested, that would/could be quickly followed by being hauled off to the good old US of A and a lifetime in one of their penitentiaries?
Course it would and the Gulf of Tonkin entirely supports my point. Far more straightforward. Which Cuban one did you have in mind? Exploding cigars aren't exactly three-dimensional chess.
He's more easily hauled off from here than Sweden. He's merely chosen the terms of his incarceration - better off incarcerated in the embassy than a Swedish jail.
I believe a jury of your peers find the case against you not proven is traditional.
Let's accept he was set up. Let's accept that these CIA/other state agents lured him into their beds.
There's couldn't possibly and the chances of them tampering with a jury trial, and the risks of exposure etc. that would entail, for benefits that could have been achieved in a far less complex and hazardous fashion. Doesn't add up.
Lets not instead ...
Lets not instead ...
nonsense. It would require some behind the scenes conversations by spooks, and friendly government officials, and it most certainly would not be particularly oblique compared to other american actions. Cuba,Vietnam, hell, just look at the plot of Argo! A plot like this would be a piece of piss for them.
'Let him off'? No. But it would, in international law, take precedence - see Abu Qatada
Plot of Argo involves actions by one state agency alone, again backing up my point. Roping in John Goodman doesn't count. Would love an example of tri-national skulduggery from the Cold War of this complexity and indirectness that didn't fail or go tits up.
it doesnt require tri-national cooperation, the brits are irrelevant. It requires some quiet words in Swedish spooks ears, plus maybe a minister or two. If you really dont think the CIA are capable of that, then you're a tad naive.
Does the onus to provide proof not rest with the prosecution? or is that fine, free Sweden a bit different from most places?
I think it's naive to buy a complex conspiracy theory when the far more likely thing is he has a case to answer for the not-at-all far-fetched charges against him. I do concede I may have the plot of Argo wrong
You only get to hear (by their nature) of the operations that go tits up.
As I say, I don't rule it out but seems unlikely given the stakes compared with Gladio and the international scenario at the time.
