Gunnar Klein, a Swedish MD, is chairing a EU committee dealing with standardization of security measures in medical information systems. Recently, in a full-page anti-GAK debating article in a national Swedish evening newspaper (Aftonbladet 9/25/96), he chose to reveal some secret information he's gotten hold of: Sweden's representatives in the OECD GAK proceedings have declared that Sweden is willing to sign bilateral or multilateral GAK treaties, if other countries so demand. This declaration, along with the OECD records per se, has been classified. He also discloses that Sweden in late 1994, effectively in total secrecy, issued a completely new law against export of 'stretegic products', principally including all cryptography, without permission from the 'Inspection for Strategic Products'. In theory this law would cover export of a crypto program on a notebook. Gunnar Klein suspects US strong-arming behind all this. Obviously, Denmark has taken a different, anti-GAK, position in the OECD proceedings. Denmark is less susceptible to US blackmail than Sweden - they don't build fighter-planes with lots of US high tech parts inside (like the JAS/Gripen). Asgaard