C-byrån

[2] When World War II broke out in 1939, Sweden lacked a modern military intelligence agency.

[3] C-byrån (before 1942 called G-sektionen[4]) was established in 1939, a few months after the outbreak of the war, after a joint campaign of the then Supreme Commander Olof Thörnell and the head of the Intelligence Department of the Defence Staff, Colonel Carlos Adlercreutz.

Thede Palm was one of them, PhD and friend of future prime minister Tage Erlander from their time at Lund University.

[3] Ternberg had good contacts with Wilhelm Canaris and its local organization in Stockholm, the so-called Wagner Agency.

At the end of World War II, there were 149 people listed in service at C-byrån, which was housed in the so-called Centralen in an apartment at Sibyllegatan 49 in Stockholm.

Plaque on Sibyllegatan 49 in Stockholm: "C-byrån operated in this building 1942-1945. The Swedish Armed Forces honor the women and men in the intelligence service who here, in silence, made great efforts for Sweden."