Wedin’s résumé was colorful, to put it mildly. He was a UN officer in the Congo in 1963, where he was taken hostage, and then he was in Cyprus in 1964–1965. During the 1960s, he supposedly worked as a mercenary and later recruited mercenaries for Rhodesia, which was confirmed in at least one case. After he returned to Sweden, he served as an officer, and at one point in the early 1970s, he went to the American embassy and unsuccessfully offered his services in the Vietnam War. When he was forced to leave his military career, he went straight to the Wallenberg group of companies.
