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UNCLAS STOCKHOLM 000648 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR CA/P/IP BARBARA HALL, PETER THOMPSON, DIANE BEAN AND MARY 
DOETSCH 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: ASEC CMGT CVIS PTER PGOV PREL SW
SUBJECT: STOCKHOLM ON HSPD-6 TERRORIST 
SCREENING INFORMATION EXCHANGE NEGOTIATIONS 
 
REF: (A) STATE 101569 (B) WECHSLER/HALL E-MAILS 9/23/08 (C) 
STOCKHOLM 510 
 
¶1.  (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy delivered reftel demarche September 25 
and urged that Swedish officials be prepared to meet with a 
negotiating team to discuss implementation of Homeland Security 
Presidential Directive 6 (HSPD-6) in October.  Swedish officials 
predict they will be able to assemble the right officials to discuss 
the issue in detail, but implied that an agreement to share 
terrorist screening information is unlikely to be concluded quickly. 
 END SUMMARY. 
 
¶2.  (SBU) POL Counselor and Consul delivered ref A demarche 
requesting Sweden enter into negotiations to share terrorist 
screening information under HSPD-6 to MFA America's Desk Deputy 
Director Per Norstrom and Desk Officers Paula Wennerblom and Jemina 
Holmberg on September 25.  EmbOffs left behind copies of the model 
document to guide negotiations, Q and A material, and releasable 
sample screenshots from the U.S. Terrorist Screening Data Base that 
would be made available to participating partner nations.  Finally, 
EmbOffs informed Norstrom that a negotiating team from the State 
Department and the Terrorist Screening Center would like to travel 
to Sweden the week of October 20 to both brief appropriate Swedish 
stakeholders and begin concrete negotiations on an agreement. 
 
¶3.  (SBU) Norstrom accepted our talking points but was not prepared 
to offer a specific response or to comment on how long it might take 
to build interagency consensus on a way ahead.  He informed us that 
the MOJ would likely have the lead on negotiating any agreement and 
would put us in touch with the right office in the coming days.  He 
felt that a negotiating team visit the third week of October 
provided enough lead time to organize meetings and brief appropriate 
principals.  Norstrom and his colleagues were curious as to which EU 
member states had already concluded HSPD-6 agreements with the 
United States.  ACTION REQUEST:  Post would appreciate Department 
guidance on this question. 
 
¶4.  (SBU) COMMENT: We think the Swedes will show up at the 
appropriate level to meet the negotiating team.  However, concluding 
negotiations at the speed suggested in refs (A) and (B) is almost 
anathema to the Swedish methodically consensus-driven approach, 
especially in light of the privacy issues raised by such an 
agreement.  An earlier attempt to negotiate a working level 
arrangement to satisfy HSPD-6 requirements faltered when the Swedish 
Security Services were told by their lawyers that this issue could 
quickly become a public liability in an atmosphere already highly 
charged by the passing of a controversial surveillance bill in July 
(reftel C). 
 
SILVERMAN