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

by Jan Stocklassa

Up the stairs from the large editorial department,

Similar to the last line of “Queen Califa.”

Stieg was the one who realized that a large percentage of right-wing extremists were changing their tactics. Instead of shaved heads, boots, and Nazi salutes, they had clean-cut hairdos and well-shined shoes, and they behaved, at least on the surface, like members of the established political parties.

Not unlike Charlottesville https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/us/white-nationalists-tiki-torch-march-trnd/index.html

Certain locations could influence people to commit serious crimes. In order for that to occur, it required that a man—always a man, it seemed—with hubris spend a long time at a location that kindled his arrogance. The location had to be secluded and exclusive and provide a sense of invincibility. If all those prerequisites were met, it could happen that a certain type of man would commit a serious crime in that location.

Setting & character: partners in crime

Was a man the driving force in reproductive rights?

Even CIA assassinations could have “terroristic” motives.

Could a lost assassin become a secret?

Oil “deals.”

Hawk missiles

This man came urgently to Stockholm the next day and explained how the foreign section of the British intelligence service MI6 had received information that the assassin should be sought among South African contacts and that there was a connection to South African arms dealing.

Taken with other evidence, this tip should have received some investigation at the time.

Craig Williamson had often said in interviews that when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Cold War ended, the Western powers didn’t need the apartheid regime in South Africa any longer. Sure enough, after Nelson Mandela was released and Prime Minister F. W. de Klerk lifted the state of emergency on June 7, 1990, the number of operations dropped dramatically.

S. Africa as Cold War proxy.

My list was a compilation that showed that white South Africa had benefited in various ways from a long string of people’s deaths, whether they were considered murders or accidents, or were unresolved.

Cui bono

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