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Leader of Swedish Nazis Charged by Prosecutor with High Treason

May 18, 1965
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Bjorn Lundahl, leador of the Swedish Nazis arrested last week after police discovered a cache of weapons at their headquarters and a list of Swedish Jewish leaders marked for assassination, was charged by Sweden’s Chief Prosecutor today with high treason. The prosecutor requested that Lundahl and six other alleged Nazis arrested with him be held without bail pending a police search for further evidence against the men.

All have denied they had had any contacts with the Egyptian Embassy here, although tape recordings and documents found at their headquarters showed that Lundahl had held at least 30 conferences with the former first secretary of the Egyptian Embassy here. They had allegedly planned for anti-Israeli espionage and for help to be given by Swedish Nazis to an Egyptian attack against Israel. The prosecution also announced today it had uncovered a possible link between the Swedish Nazis and a plot to have a newspaper in Oslo, Norway, print pro-Nazi material.

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