T-kontoret ("T office") was a

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active between 1946 and 1965. It was the successor to the

C-byrån C-byrån ("C bureau") was a Swedish secret intelligence agency established in 1939, sorting under the Swedish Armed Forces. It was led by Major Carl Petersén. During World War II C-byrån organized operations in the German-occupied Norway and O ...

and predecessor to IB. T-kontoret was headed by Thede Palm.

History

In connection with the outbreak of

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in 1939, a secret

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was established, the G Section (''G-sektionen''), or the Border Section (''Gränssektionen'') for surveillance of the Swedish borders and control of migration flows. In 1942 the Defence Staff was heavily reorganized. The coordinators for the intelligence and security service became Section II (from 1966 named Section 2). Section I included the Foreign Department, the Domestic Department and the G Section, which now changed its name to

or ''Centralen''. In 1946 it was again time for a new reorganization. The Foreign Department had now two subdivisions, the Intelligence and Attaché Offices. C-byrån was disbanded. Operations had become too well known, and its methods had been strongly disputed. A new secret organization was created, T-kontoret, headed by former C-byrån employee, the former librarian at

Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion Thede Palm. The operations were entirely focused on foreign intelligence gathering. For a secret domestic intelligence gathering, Grupp B ("Group B") was organized in 1957, later known as B-kontoret ("B office") within the Domestic Department. Within the agency a department was created, called ''Detalj II'' for east-economic research. To the ''Detalj II'', bankers and economists as Torsten Gårdlund, Lars-Erik Thunholm and Gunnar Dahmén were linked. The operations came from the 1950s to be headed by Jan Rydström, also a former employee of C-byrån. After a

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between Thede Palm and Jan Rydström, ''Detalj II'' was split from T-kontoret. The East Economic Agency Foundation (''Stiftelsen Öst Ekonomiska Byrån'') was established with Jan Rydström as head. From 1961, the T-kontoret constituted a separate department within the Defence Staff/Section II (Fst/Sekt II), alongside the Domestic Department (Fst/In), the Foreign Department (Fst/U) and Group B (''Grupp B''). Group B was the unit for domestic intelligence which was formed in 1957-58. In the summer of 1961, the Group B was organizationally separated from the Fst/In and received independent status directly under the chief of Fst/Sekt II. In 1965 the T-kontoret was merged with Group B into a single secret organization known as IB. Palm was fired the year before and head of the merged entity was Birger Elmér, the former head of Group B.

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