Eskilstuna publisher about new spy story in the world press: "Information we released in 2016"

The course of events that the Washington Post observes took place during the Cold War when US and German intelligence services secretly owned the encryption company Crypto AB, which allowed the Americans and Germans to read encrypted communications from other countries.

As early as 2016, the Eskilstuna publisher published a book by Sixten Svensson in which many of the information surrounding the attention was revealed. But according to publisher Christer Bergström, the interest was not very big then.

- It received almost no attention at all. When you publish literature that puts your finger on what state powers are doing, it becomes pretty uninteresting to the media until some giant, like the Washington Post in this case, grabs it, says Christer Bergström, publisher.

It was the Swede, as well as Sixten Svensson's brother-in-law, Boris Hagelin, who started the company and was behind the encryption machines that were controlled by the CIA and the German intelligence service BND during the Cold War. The collaboration with Boris Hagelin enabled the CIA to intercept 120 governments around the world.

- Boris Haglin is a big hiding place in the spy world and he kept quiet about what he knew for natural reasons but he told his brother-in-law, says Christer Bergström.