The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin

by Jan Stocklassa

How could people in the 1980s, who appeared to be otherwise normal, participate in gatherings and organizations where fascist and racist views were expressed? The same people kept cropping up in political parties that seemed completely on the up-and-up, like the Moderates or the Liberals, and then gradually the boundaries were erased between the right wing, right-wing extremists, and even outright Nazis.

his case, one of the organizations appeared to be the European Workers’ Party (EAP) which, although it sounded left-wing, was actually a right-wing organization and the Swedish branch of the Lyndon LaRouche movement. Gunnarsson’s admiration for the United States was unlimited, and he had often been observed in Stockholm speaking American English