Word: enbom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Christmas two young Swedes got drunk together. Johan Fritiof Enbom, pale, slim and 33, began bragging to his roommate of his exploits as a secret service agent. Soon, his boasting gave way to remorse. Enbom's roommate drank in the whole startling story, then hurried to the police...
...slipped word of German transport movements to the Communist Party. Soon, with his brother Martin and others, he was dealing in Swedish military secrets and conspiring directly with agents working out of the Soviet embassy in Stockholm. Through switches in Soviet contact men and changes in his own jobs Enbom kept the secrets flowing to Moscow. There were elaborate cloak & dagger arrangements -code messages that looked like simple shopping lists, a rusty tin can hidden in an isolated spot as a "letterbox," hairpins hung on a wire fence in Stockholm in various shapes to convey various messages. To improve communications...
Last week Johan Enbom sat in the witness stand in a Stockholm courtroom, the first of seven Swedes to go on trial for espionage. They had, the government charged, given the Russians secrets of Sweden's vital northern defense line abreast of Finland. Required to stand trial, though he had pleaded guilty, Enbom freely told the whole story. He had been sure war was coming, he explained, and it was his duty to "smooth the Red armies' path to liberate Sweden from the dreaded Western occupation...
Wages of Sin. With another of the defendants, Enbom even worked out a Trojan-horse plan for Communist seizure of Sweden's Boden fortress, a vast underground installation astride the invasion route from Finland. If war seemed imminent, loyal Communists were to be introduced into the fortifications in sealed railroad cars marked "urgent goods." Enbom reckoned that 200 men would be enough to seize the fortress by surprise...
...longer an earnest Communist and now resigned to his punishment (maxi mum: life imprisonment at hard labor). Spy Enbom told the court: "At first I spied for ideological reasons, later only for the money." The wages of his sin were pitifully small. For ten years of espionage, the Russians had paid...
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