03 - The Girl Who Kicked The Hornetâs Nest by Stieg Larsson
Author:Stieg Larsson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781616574826
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-05-24T23:00:00+00:00
The prime minister gave the director of Constitutional Protection a long, wary look. Edklinth had a sense that cogs were whirring at high speed behind the PMâs glasses.
The PM shifted his gaze to Figuerola, who hadnât said a word during the presentation. He saw an unusually tall and muscular woman looking back at him with a polite, expectant expression. Then he turned to the minister of justice, who had paled over the course of the presentation.
Then the PM took a deep breath, removed his glasses, and stared for a moment into the distance.
âI think we need a little more coffee,â he said.
âYes, please,â Figuerola said.
Edklinth nodded and the minister of justice poured coffee from a thermos carafe.
âLet me be absolutely certain I understood you correctly,â the prime minister said. âYou suspect that thereâs a conspiracy within the Security Police that is acting outside its constitutional mandate, and that over the years this conspiracy has committed what could be categorized as serious criminal acts.â
âYes.â
âAnd youâre coming to me because you donât trust the leadership of the Security Police?â
âNo, not exactly,â Edklinth said. âI decided to turn directly to you because this sort of activity is unconstitutional. But I donât know the objective of the conspiracy, or whether Iâve misinterpreted something. For all I know, the activity may be legitimate and sanctioned by the government. Then I risk proceeding on faulty information, thereby compromising some secret operation.â
The prime minister looked at the minister of justice. Both understood that Edklinth was hedging his bets.
âIâve never heard of anything like this. Do you know anything about it?â
âAbsolutely not,â the minister of justice said. âThereâs nothing in any report Iâve seen from the Security Police that could have a bearing on this matter.â
âBlomkvist thinks thereâs a faction within Säpo. He refers to it as the Zalachenko club,â Edklinth said.
âIâd never even heard that Sweden had taken in and protected a Russian defector of such importance,â the PM said. âHe defected during the Fälldin administration, you say?â
âI donât believe Fälldin would have covered up something like this,â the minister of justice said. âThis kind of defection would have been given the highest priority, and would have been passed over to the next administration.â
Edklinth cleared his throat. âFälldinâs conservative government was succeeded by Olof Palmeâs. Itâs no secret that some of my predecessors at SIS had a certain opinion of Palmeââ
âYouâre suggesting that somebody forgot to inform the social democratic government?â
Edklinth nodded. âLetâs remember that Fälldin was in power for two separate mandates. Each time, the coalition government collapsed. First he handed over to Ola Ullsten, who had a minority government in 1979. The government collapsed again when the moderates jumped ship, and Fälldin governed together with the Peopleâs Party. Iâm guessing that the government secretariat was in turmoil during those transition periods. Itâs also possible that knowledge of Zalachenko was confined to so small a circle that Prime Minister Fälldin had no real oversight, so he never had anything to hand over to Palme.â
âIn that case, whoâs responsible?â the PM said.
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