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Who killed Swedish prime minister Olof Palme? After a night at the cinema in 1986, Palme was assassinated on Stockholm's busiest street

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  1. ffmike
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    The article doesn't mention it (I expect the actual podcast does), but Stocklassa has written a book about this: The Man Who Played With Fire. I just recently finished reading it after it showed...

    The article doesn't mention it (I expect the actual podcast does), but Stocklassa has written a book about this: The Man Who Played With Fire. I just recently finished reading it after it showed up cheap in my BookBub email.

    The book was a pretty hard slog: Stocklassa has what seems to me a typical "conspiracy theory" attitude towards this stuff, where every possible thread of evidence gets dumped into a heap and then patterns get picked out. Yeah, maybe Palme was assassinated by a South African hit squad upset by his opposition to apartheid working with Swedes who thought he was selling the country out to the Russians, and maybe the mysterious eastern european woman Stocklassa talks to did somehow get hold of private emails between the conspirators, and maybe Stieg Larsson really did uncover it all and squirrel the evidence away in his files. But all in all, this reminds me pretty strongly of the pile of Kennedy assassination books I read when I was younger: lots of smoke, no fire.

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