Statements by Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad of the Royal Swedish Navy while announcing the conclusion of efforts to identify "foreign underwater activity" in the Stockholm Archipelago:
"I'm here to tell you that the marine intelligence operation, that has taken place in the Stockholm Archipelago for seven days, is now mainly over. This means that the bulk of ships and amphibious forces have returned to their port and resumed normal preparedness. Smaller units carrying out special tasks remain in the area."
"The [Swedish] Armed Forces' assessment is that most probably foreign underwater activity has been conducted in Stockholm's inner archipelago. Our [search] operation has not produced a confirmation of foreign underwater activity; in particular the type [of the vessel], country of origin, and form of the operation conducted by a foreign power has not been identified with an absolute certainty. We believe today that those [units] or the unit, which we have been able to follow through our own observations and those of the public, have now abandoned the area. What we have been able to rule out with certainty is that it was a conventional submarine."
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