Bergling suspected and arrested Stig Bergling

bergling arrested on 12 march 1979 @ ben gurion airport.

in march 1976, bergling placed @ surveillance expedition @ säpo, , got unique insight ongoing projects, had purpose of exposing soviet intelligence officers , recruit own soviet informers. bergling increasingly revealed more soviets employers, suspicions increased @ säpo not right, , had mole in organization. bergling became suspect , säpo began follow him. @ time, civilian soviet secret service kgb had mole high in own organization; oleg gordievsky, years had regularly provided western bloc information. through contacts military colleagues @ gru, gordievsky understood had agent placed in säpo in sweden. information communicated gordyevsky west through regular contacts british mi6. meanwhile, in 1976, bergling s swiss fiancee reported him assault. @ same time informed suspicions spy. nothing happened except police interrogated woman.

in 1977, bergling applied new un service , ordered suez. säpo had received information regarding bergling s contacts identified gru officer in middle east. bergling in jordan when decided fly sweden. however, there no flights sweden jordan, bergling went israel instead. on 12 march 1979, bergling arrested israeli counterintelligence , security service shin bet @ passport control @ ben gurion airport after israelis had been informed säpo. säpo believed, however, not arrest him because information not have been useful in swedish court. @ same time, säpo bureau chief olof frånstedt informed israelis bergling had intended return israel. arrest of bergling occurred therefore independently israel, , reason shin bet needed find out if bergling had conducted espionage on israeli interests during time in middle east. got choose interrogations take place - in prison or in luxury hotel. bergling got half hour decide , chose luxury hotel. after 7 days of interrogation, bergling put on flight copenhagen met staff danish secret service. brought him helsingborg met old colleagues säpo , taken stockholm. in all, bergling had earned 67,000 sek on spying.