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Nehru's friend, Gunnar Myrdal, was a British spy

Social scientist Gunnar Myrdal was a British spy during World War II, according to the Swedish armed forces.

Myrdal, who later served as Sweden's ambassador to India and was a friend of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, also contributed much economic intelligence to the Allies.

These facts emerged when the Swedish government released classified material on Thursday.

The declassified material shows that Myrdal, during the period in question, was suspected by the armed forces of providing Britain with "economic intelligence during the war".

The declassified document is entitled "Great Britain's and their allies' espionage in Sweden".

Myrdal's wife Alva Myrdal was also registered for information gathering, it stated.

But the couple's son, Jan Myrdal, a controversial Swedish writer, has for quite a long time been maintaining that both his parents were Nazi spies as well as bona fide Hitler supporters.

UNI

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