13 Facts About Ola Tunander

Goran Ola Tunander was born on in Stockholm, Sweden in 1948 and is a research professor emeritus at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

Ola Tunander has written and edited 12 books and a number of articles on security politics, naval strategy, submarine operations, geopolitics, dual state, psychological operations and Cold War history.

Ola Tunander lectured at the US Center for Naval Analyses and Naval Postgraduate School.

Robert Bathurst and Ola Tunander initiated Norwegian-Russian dialogue seminars in the early 1990s.

Ola Tunander wrote contributions about Northern Europe, Nordic Cooperation, and Scandinavism published by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Olof Palme International Center.

Ola Tunander wrote and edited two Swedish books on power, identity, and territory and co-edited Geopolitics in Post-Wall Europe.

Ola Tunander later claimed that Anders Behring Breivik was possibly an Israeli agent.

Ola Tunander now emerged as a particularly prominent proponent of the idea that many or all of the incursions had in fact been staged by NATO under CIA oversight and with the complicity of Swedish government officials, to be falsely blamed on the Soviet Union.

In 2001, Ola Tunander was enlisted as a civilian expert to contribute to a new government inquiry led by Rolf Ekeus.

Ola Tunander wrote a Swedish book Harsfjarden, articles for the Swedish Journal of War Sciences, the Zurich-based Parallel History Project, and an English volume for the Frank Cass Naval History Series: The Secret War against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s.

Ola Tunander's arguments have drawn strong pushback from many of the government and military officials involved with the submarine hunts, but gained some support.

Ola Tunander was supported by Mattias Mossberg, a former ambassador who had served as secretary to the Ekeus investigation.

Ola Tunander received support from former Finnish President Mauno Koivisto, who called the operations "provocations" and recalled Soviet leader Yuri Andropov telling him that the Swedes should sink every intruding submarine, so they could see themselves what turned up.