Townley, Razin and Palme
According to an interview with former CIA agents Ibrahim Razin and Richard Brenneke by RAI journalist Ennio Remondino, Michael Townley was in Stockholm in 1986 a week before the assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, possibly in connection with the Iran-Contra affair. After the interview the Italian magazine Panorama revealed president Francesco Cossiga sent a letter to prime minister Giulio Andreotti stating:
If the government were to think that the information had any basis, I think that it should inform the judiciary authority and the Parliamentary Commission on Massacres and, at the level of the bilateral relations, the relevant authorities in the USA and in Sweden.
If, on the other hand, the government, after careful evaluation, were to conclude that the information broadcast by the RAI-TV is false or even recklessly provocatory, I think that the government should inform the judiciary authorities of possible penal law violations and undertake necessary measures to find out the managers and personnel of the national TV center responsible.
Razin claimed in the interview to know of several forces behind the assassination and to have intercepted a telegram with the words 'tell our friend the Swedish palm will be felled'. The reason for this action was supposedly Sweden's involvement in the Iran-Iraq war.
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