Eastern European and Soviet Department: Soviet Influence in Scandinavia

A file containing documents concerning Soviet relations with the Scandinavian countries. Subjects covered in the file include reports of a Soviet submarine in Swedish waters; an economic cooperation agreement between the Soviet Union and Iceland; a peace march by Nordic women from Stockholm to Minsk; Soviet ships drilling for oil in the Barents Sea; and increasingly unstable relations between the Soviet Union and Norway. Other subjects discussed in the file include the appointment of a new Soviet ambassador to Sweden, with relations between the two countries deteriorating; a series of visits to Moscow by Finnish politicians; a possible reason for the Finnish people to fear the new Soviet leader, Yurii Andropov; the defection of a Soviet miner on Svalbard; a visit to Finland by a senior Soviet politician, Nikolai Tikhonov; and the expulsion of two Soviet diplomats and a shipping inspector from Sweden.