(Yle) Russia made plans to disrupt Finland and Sweden’s accession to joining Nato, according to a secret intelligence report obtained by an Yle MOT investigation.
The report found that a Russian intelligence service planned to organise disruption campaigns disguised as demonstrations before the countries’ Nato applications were approved.
The plan was revealed in a memo prepared by a Russian intelligence officer and originally leaked to the Dossier Center, an organisation whose stated goal is to “track the criminal activity of various people associated with the Kremlin.”
The intelligence service’s plan highlighted that violent demonstrations in Sweden following the burning of the Koran increased fear of radical Islam in EU countries. The Russian intelligence document called for this tension to be fuelled further.
