In Ole Dammegard's best-selling 2015 book about the assassination of Sweden's PM Olof Palme, the author also focused on the targeting of Bernt Carlsson:
"Investigations by the Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung proved that in fact South African agents had placed a specially prepared bomb in Bernt Carlsson's small tape recorder. By blowing up a whole passenger plane in the air, the motive was hidden very effectively, because the investigators had no possibility of knowing which one of the passengers was the target." [1]
Eight years later Chris Nicholson, a retired High Court judge, obtained a copy of that Austrian newspaper article for inclusion in his own book about the crimes committed by apartheid South Africa: [2]
"People walking in the streets in autumn in Vienna on 6 October 1996 would have seen placards on lamp posts screaming the headline Pan Am Mystery Lockerbie: It was South Africa!
"Quickly turning to page 4 of Neue Kronen Zeitung, the fascinated readers would have seen a huge article with photographs of Bernt Carlsson and the wreckage of Pan Am 103.
"A small inset showed a radio cassette player of the type mentioned in the piece. The article said:
"The revelation a few days ago had an explosive effect: two senior people in the 'dirty tricks' department of the apartheid ancien regime said independently in court, and recorded on film, that Sweden's Olof Palme had been the victim of a South African murder plot in February 1986.
"The article continued:
"Truly sensational: a big murder mystery appeared finally to have been solved! All of which helped explain an even bigger terrorist murder mystery: that South Africa was also behind the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland in December 1988.
"Kronen Zeitung was given access to insider information from Sweden's Social Democratic Party which confirmed that it was neither Gaddafi, nor Iran, nor Syria that bombed the US jumbo jet, but instead that - as with Olof Palme as well as the Lockerbie bombing - the trail leads to the same plotters: the South African apartheid regime!
"The next paragraph in the article is headed South African 'dirty tricks' and states:
"Seated in the jumbo jet was Bernt Carlsson, a very close colleague of Olof Palme, who had been Secretary General of the Socialist International and Palme's special adviser on South Africa, and was regarded as an 'arch-enemy' by the apartheid regime.
"There were 'good' reasons why the South African secret services wanted those two Swedish Social Democrats dead: the dyed-in-the-wool anti-apartheid Swedes were alleged to be supplying arms, via socialist routes, to the African National Congress (ANC). These had to be secret operations because, officially, the Socialist International only offered non-military aid to the South African freedom fighters of the ANC and SWAPO. And Palme & Co were regarded as peaceniks."
"The article provides further explosive revelations. In a paragraph headed Panic by the apartheid regime it explains:
"Interestingly Pan Am 103 was conveying Bernt Carlsson to the historic signing of the Namibia Independence Agreement at United Nations headquarters in New York. Bernt Carlsson was to have been the UN Governor of Namibia.
"This diplomatic political coup and the arms deliveries were seen by the apartheid regime as a deadly threat.
"The bomb on Pan Am 103 had been hidden in a cassette recorder. It is of note that Bernt Carlsson reputedly had a habit of always carrying a tape recorder with him, and of surreptitiously recording conversations with those he met. This was one of the main reasons that Willy Brandt, the Socialist International president, was said to have wanted Bernt Carlsson to stand down in 1983.
"The piece ends on an emphatic identification of the killers. Headed Infiltration of the socialists, the article trumpets the real truth of the perpetrators of the Lockerbie tragedy:
"Having been removed from the Socialist International, Carlsson continued with secret underground contacts. It would have been easy for South African secret service agents, who had infiltrated Sweden's anti-apartheid movement, to exchange Carlsson's tape recorder in a hotel room against one containing the bomb. And then placing it inside of of those 'ubiquitous' Samsonite suitcases so beloved by the peripatetic Bernt Carlsson." [2]
REFERENCES
[1] Coup d'Etat in Slow Motion by Ole Dammegard (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Coup_d%27etat_in_slow_motion#On_Bernt_Carlsson)
[2] Slain Heroes by Christopher Nicholson (https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Christopher_Nicholson#Magnum_opus)
How much more evidence does it take for the UK police to launch an inquiry into the targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103?