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I did this for a story that occurred back in October of 2014, when Sweden's military conducted a massive
search for what they were convinced was a Russian submarine lurking in their territorial waters. The
story was headline news for a week straight, and most people who follow the news likely remember it to
this day. What follows is a highly condensed version of what I wrote here.

Reuters broke the story in the US on Saturday the 18th. They quoted the Swedish newspaper Svenska
Dagbladet (SvD), who, quoting anonymous sources, said that the sub hunt began when a radio
transmission in Russian was picked up on an emergency frequency, along with encrypted radio traffic
coming from Russia's Kaliningrad territory. This was pretty convincing evidence that Russia did indeed
have a sub in Swedish waters, and it sounded like it might be having some difficulty. The only issue with
this story, though, is that when Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad, who at the time was Deputy Chief of
Operations of the Swedish Navy, was asked about it, he "rejected that they had [received] information
about any emergency call in Russian".

I only found this minor detail about the Swedish Navy rejecting the entire SvD storyline in a single report
from CBS.

What was not reported at all in the US was that a week later, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter,
citing freedom of information requests and sources within the military, published an article saying that
neither of these events ever happened.

Not only did the US media not report that the whole SvD storyline was a lie, they continued to tell the lie
after it was shown in the Swedish media to be a lie.

The Swedish military, on the day before the fabricated SvD article was published, said that the sub hunt
started based on information from a "credible source", which turned out to be a private citizen. They
would not even confirm that the "information" they received was a submarine sighting! What could a
private citizen say to a nation's military that would initiate a 3 million dollar submarine hunt? I can't
think of anything other than a sighting of a Russian submarine. But there was no photo involved, so I
guess they just took their word for it.

One tidbit of information the Swedish military gave out was that the "event" (I can't call it a sighting)
happened in Kanholmsfjärden bay. Strangely enough, the very next morning, some elderly Swedes were
crossing a bridge at the edge of Kanholmsfjärden bay and they saw a submarine! It turns out that at the
base of the bridge is a resort called Djuronaset, and they happen to own a submarine that had been
retired from the Swedish Navy, and they use it to give rides to tourists.
The elderly Swedes saw the tourist sub.

Here is where the home of the tourist sub is located relative to where the "event" occurred that started
the whole submarine hunt:

The "event" that started the sub hunt occurred very close to where the tourist sub operates. Many
people in Sweden assumed the entire submarine hunt was based on a sighting of the tourist sub.

Let's talk about other submarine sightings that occurred during the sub hunt. There were 5 of these (out
of over 250 total) that the Swedish military deemed "credible". The first was the one that started the
submarine hunt, which we discussed.

The second sighting was made by a fisherman, and also did not involve a photo. It was reported by a
local newspaper, but nowhere else. The reason for this is likely that the fisherman is a convicted
pedophile. I guess they didn't want to parade him around in the media.

The third sighting included a photo!! Here it is:

The fourth and fifth "credible" sightings involved no photos, and went relatively unreported.

There were 250 submarine sightings during the submarine hunt, and the photo above is the only one
that was taken. You probably didn't realize that Sweden is a poor country where nobody has cameras, or
phones with cameras.

A week after the sub hunt officially ended, there was another submarine sighting which was made by a
retired Swedish naval officer. Luckily, he is a rare Swede who has a camera, and he took a picture of the
sub. The photo was deemed by the Swedish media to be a much better quality image than the "blurry
and difficult to decipher" Ornö image. Here it is:
The Swedish military investigated this sighting for 6 months, and decided that the dot you see in the
photo was a Swedish fishing boat named the Time Bandit. I looked up this boat online. Here it is:

The photo taken by the retired Swedish naval officer was a much better quality image than the Ornö
image, and the Ornö image was a much better quality image than whatever started the submarine hunt,
because the Ornö image was at least an image, whereas whatever started the submarine hunt did not
involve any image.
The $3 million dollar submarine hunt, then, was based on something that had much less substance than
what turned out to be a small fiberglass fishing boat.

There was also a storyline about a Russian oil tanker that was drifting back and forth in the Baltic Sea.
Western media speculated that it might have transported the Russian sub to Sweden, and it was waiting
for it to return. In the Swedish media, however, the president of a Swedish tanker company, the head of
the Finnish Transport Agency, and the head of Sweden's coast guard for the Stockholm area, all said that
what the tanker was doing was normal. This went unreported in the US.

There was also a storyline about a "suspicious man in black". Here is the picture of him shown in the
media:

The media in the US speculated endlessly that he might be a member of the Russian special forces who
had abandoned the damaged submarine (even though the story about the emergency distress call was a
lie), swam ashore (after rigging his sub to explode), and was searching for his Swedish "sleeper agent".

It turns out that the person was Ove, a local retired Swede who was fishing for trout.

This part of the story went unreported in the US. Actually, after the story came out that the man in the
picture was Ove, the New York Times continued to bring up this storyline without mentioning Ove. Liars.

So what did the Swedish military do after all these bullshit stories? Claim victory, of course. They held a
press conference assuring everyone that a Russian submarine had violated their waters. They presented
3 pieces of "supporting" evidence, and one "crucial" piece that was "vital" in their determination that
the Russians were guilty.

The first piece of supporting evidence was the Ornö image, which is nonsense. The second piece was
another sighting that had not been discussed previously. As you might have guessed, there was no
photo involved in this sighting, either. Poor Swedes, remember. The third piece of evidence was this
sonar image showing a groove on the ocean floor:

The problem with this picture is that submarines don't crawl on the ocean floor. The move through the
water above the ocean floor. Even Pavel Felgenhauer, a reliable anti-Russia propagandist and member
of the Jamestown Foundation, a neocon thinktank, could not lower himself enough to endorse this
ridiculous story. It is nonsense.

And what about the "crucial" / "vital" information that really nailed the Russians? What was that about?

It's a secret! You are not allowed to know what it is. But trust them, it's pretty good stuff.

That's honestly what they said.

Then, almost a year later, the Swedish government released their final report. In it, they said that the
"crucial" piece of secret information might not be what they thought it was. That interesting story went
unreported in the US.

Then, in June of 2016, nearly 2 years after the sub incident, the Swedish government finally told the
truth. The "crucial" piece of evidence, which was a sound that had supposedly come from the Russian
sub, had actually come from a "Swedish source"!!!

This, of course, went unreported in the US.

The Swedish media, however, had enough at this point. One article said that "this whole situation is
striking and has damaged the Armed Forces and the government's credibility and confidence in
Sweden's security policy."
In Sweden, the whole thing is becoming a joke, and people are starting to write books about it.

Americans, of course, still believe that the Russian tried to invade Sweden in 2014.

Once again, the details of this story are here.