Stig Bergling, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stig Bergling

Swedish police officer and spy

Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1937

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Date of Death: 24-Jan-2015

Profession: military personnel, police officer, spy

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Stig Svante Eugén Bergling, later Stig Svante Eugén Sandberg and Stig Svante Eugén Sydholt, (1 March 1937 – 24 January 2015) was a Swedish Security Service officer who spied for the Soviet Union.
The Stig Bergling-affair, one of Sweden's greatest spy scandals, began when he was arrested in Israel in 1979 and in the same year in Sweden was sentenced to life imprisonment for aggravated espionage.
He fled to Moscow, however, during a conjugal visit in 1987.
Bergling's escape was a major embarrassment for Sweden's liberal prison system and prompted the resignation of the justice minister.Bergling lived for several years in the Soviet Union, Hungary and Lebanon until, for health reasons, he voluntarily returned to Sweden in 1994.
He continued to serve his sentence until 1997, when he was paroled.
During the last years of his life, Bergling lived in a Stockholm nursing home and had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
He died there on 24 January 2015, 77 years old.