#33. “They introduced the Nazifascist structures into the CIA”

The title is an edited quoted part of a by Dr. Ola Tunander spoken sentence [“They brought in the whole Nazifascist structures into the CIA”] from the video:

How The Deep Empire Eliminates Threats To Its Hegemony

– An in-depth discussion, a verbal documentary about political assassinations in the (far) past, world wide, coups, and more.
– Participating are: Ola Tunander, Dirk Pohlmann and Pascal Lottaz
– Published: October 15, 2025

• Ola Tunander (image upper right) (born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1948) is a research professor emeritus at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO, Norway)
• Dirk Pohlmann (born August 11, 1959) is a German journalist, author, screenwriter, director and producer of about 25 historical documentaries for German public media Arte, ARD and ZDF
• Pascal Lottaz (picture left, discussion leader) is an Assistant Professor for Neutrality Studies at the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, in Tokyo. He received his MA and PhD from the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (Japan) and specializes on neutral actors in international relations, especially on neutrality during the two World Wars and during the Cold War. He recently published the books Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War (Routledge, 2022), Permanent Neutrality: A Model for Peace, Security, and Justice (Lexington Books, 2020), and Notions of Neutralities (Lexington Books, 2019). He leads the research network neutralitystudies.com.

Pascal Lottaz: “Today I’m talking again to Dr. Ola Tunander and Dirk Pohlmann. I have talked to both of them separately before, but tonight we want to do a panel on the political murders in Europe throughout the Cold War and into the Unipolar Moment when people who worked for Peace and a political rapprochement with the East and the global South just died. Together, we trace the shadowy links between these deaths, uncovering a world of deep state networks, Nazi assassins repurposed by Western intelligence, and the brutal enforcement of an empire’s unwritten rules. We explore why challenging the colonial order or building economic bridges to the East became a death sentence.”

Additional information

Ola Tunander: The killing of PM Olof Palme

1. Part I https://olatunander.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-pm-olof-palme-part
2. Part II https://olatunander.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-pm-olof-palme-part-698
3. Part III https://olatunander.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-pm-olof-palme-part-7ae
4. Part IV https://olatunander.substack.com/p/the-killing-of-pm-olof-palme-part-661

Dirk Pohlmann

• Filmography – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688383

Pascal Lottaz

• Neutrality Studies substack: https://pascallottaz.substack.com