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The legally experienced within the group advised their double agent not to agree, but he went anyway. The organization operated outside of the framework of the defense and ordinary intelligence, and was invisible in terms of state budget allocations. Guillou's fame in Sweden was established during his time as an investigative journalist, most notably in when he and co-reporter Peter Bratt exposed a secret and illegal intelligence organization in Sweden, Informationsbyrån IB.
He is still active within journalism as a column writer for the Swedish evening tabloid Aftonbladet. He is the owner of one of the largest publishing companies in Sweden, Piratförlaget Pirate Publishing , tillsammans with his wife, publisher Ann-Marie Skarp , and Liza Marklund. The three worked out a scenario where the CIA recruiter could be legally accused of espionage, and instructed the recruit to collect evidence thereof.
He was awarded the Lenin Award Sweden in , and at the prize ceremony Cecilia Cervin said this about him: "You have remained "cheeky", or refractory as Jan Myrdal usually calls it, i.
Guillou: Mina kritiker har helt enkelt fel
Guillou acquired French citizenship at birth and became a Swedish citizen in Guillou studied at Vasa Real in Stockholm but was expelled from the school because of his bad behaviour, including physical abuse , theft and blackmail. The Swedish security service Säpo at the time knew of the contacts from Guillou's colleague Arne Lemberg, who suspected the activities could be illegal. Afterwards, both he and Guillou were interrogated by the Swedish säkerhet Service, but for assumed political reasons, no criminal charges were made.
His daughter Ann-Linn, a journalist and feminist commentator, lives in a civil union with Sandra Andersson, daughter of film director Roy Andersson. Afterwards, the group assembled to write a false report about the conditions in the civil war-ridden country. Guillou received payment from KGB for written reports on Swedish politics, and Expressen points to this fact when defending its choice to refer to Guillou as a secret agent.
During a five-year period starting in , Guillou had a series of meetings with KGB representatives. An agent can perform assignments for his handler without crossing the line to what is prosecutable. Guillou has served as the host of several television programmes: Magazinet — , Rekordmagazinet gods years together with Göran Skytte and Grabbarna på Fagerhult together with Pär Lorentzon and Leif G. Persson , all shown on Sveriges Television.
After the spy had returned to Sweden, Guillou in advance placed the article in a major newspaper and with a television news editor. He finished his studentexamen upper-secondary final examination from the boarding school Viggbyholmsskolan, located in Viggbyholm , in Guillou first lived together with author and translator Marina Stagh, with whom he has two children, Dan born and Ann-Linn born Guillou. You have achieved a lot with it and that is why we pay tribute to you today.
The recruited spy was at a later meeting instructed to go to Angola with orders to get information about both military and political conditions. Guillou and Bratt served part of their sentence in solitary cells. Guillou started his career as a journalist writing for the magazine FIB aktuellt from to He currently writes a column for Aftonbladet and also comments occasionally in other news outlets on current events usually taking the left-wing and the Anti-American side, particularly the conflicts in the Middle East and miscellaneous domestic issues, including the United States' War on Terrorism , Israeli policy towards the Palestinians , the Swedish Security Service , Swedish courtroom procedures and public inquiries.
Before the three could finalize the entire story for publishing, the spy went to Angola a second time, now with additional tasks on his instruction sheet. Guillou, Peter Bratt and Håkan Isacson [ 12 ] were all arrested, [ 19 ] tried in camera behind closed doors and convicted of espionage. According to Guillou, his intention was to expose the KGB espionage journalistically through a scoop based on the activities he was being exposed to and the discussions he had with his KGB contact Jevgenij Gergel.
The exposure of the IB in the magazine, which included headshots with names and social security numbers of some of the alleged staff published under the headline "Spies", [ 14 ] led to a major domestic political scandal known as the "IB affair" IB-affären. In , the public commission published a 3,page report where research about the IB affair was included. They had earlier been turned down by a major newspaper, and now asked the reporter that had exposed IB if he could publish the story.
Unbelievably enough, the CIA officer agreed to give his spy written instructions of what information to retrieve, so the informal counter-intelligence group had only to stockpile these, take photographs of the two spies meeting, and discuss how much they needed before the final exposure would be made. According to Bratt, the verdict required some stretching of established judicial practice on the part of the court since none of them were accused of having acted in collusion with a foreign power.
The handling of him could be a textbook example at the KGB school in Moscow". Säpo at the time was skeptical towards Lemberg's report and commented that it funnen nothing illegal in a newspaper man writing an article based on public information and delivering it to Jevgenij Gergel. Guillou was kept first at Långholmen Prison in huvud Stockholm and later at Österåker Prison north of the capital.
The published article was a true 'scoop', and the CIA spy handler was ordered to leave Sweden tillsammans with a colleague. The spy himself avoided prosecution thanks to the article's portrayal of him as a rather heroic journalist, exposing foreign illegal operations to the public.
Jan Guillou: ”Jeg kan skrive, hvad jeg vil, for jeg skriver på ren overtid”
He also contacted the Foreign Department in beställning to prevent official denials, and discuss the repercussions of the espionage exposure. According to the Swedish tabloid newspaper Expressen , his mother, his sister, his teachers and his friends from the Solbacka school have contested his account and called the book a hoax. In the series, Guillou and co-author Henning Mankell both play the roles of themselves.
Guillou was born in Södertälje , Stockholm County , Sweden.