* Borrowing Bush's Brilliant Idea* When Bush
insisted that U.N. weapons inspectors be able to take
Iraqi scientists and their families outside of Iraq for
interviews, thus protecting the scientists from possible
retaliation by Saddam's secret police, Carlsson had the solution
that had eluded Palme so many years ago. "That's it!" he told a colleague.
"We'll offer U.S. bureaucrats
and their families safe passage to Sweden and a secure
environment from which they can speak freely and publicly to the
folks back home. They can stay here at our expense until a
climate of openness and honesty prevails in the Bush
administration." In addition to Williams, 28 other bureaucrats and their
families
are en route to Stockholm. All were spirited out of Washington by
a team of Swedish secret agents who had honed their rescue skills
in Yugoslavia and the Congo. Once the former officials settle into their new
homes and get
comfortable with saying who they are and what they think, they'll
spend their time giving speeches an interviews. Former CIA analyst Williams is
already a sensation on Swedish TV
as a regular guest on the top-rated chat show, Nugen Farger
("Hard Rugby").