Our Man in Stockholm

Our Man in Stockholm

What Sweden knew about the Cuban Missile Crisis

Essay | The intelligence the CIA chose to ignore

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Johan Wennström
Sep 07, 2026
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Note: This is an adapted extract from my new book, The Stay Behinds: Sweden’s Cold War Guardians, published this week by Osprey/Bloomsbury. It is a digression from the book’s main story that also stands on its own.

For London readers, I will be presenting the book at Waterstones Gower Street on Tuesday, 8 September at 6pm. Tickets are available here.

— Johan

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