Sune Sandström

Sune Olof Hilding Sandström (26 June 1939 – 22 October 2011) was a Swedish police officer. He was Chief of the Swedish Security Service from 1987 to 1989.

Early life Sandström was born on 26 June 1939 in Nyhem, Bräcke Municipality, Sweden, the son of merchant Olof Sandström and his wife Frida (née Sandelin). He grew up in Gäddede and passed studentexamen in Östersund.

Career After becoming a reserve officer, he was admitted to the district police superintendent (landsfiskal) education and obtained a district prosecutor's degree in Stockholm in 1965. and then became Head of Department at the Swedish National Police Board

Enemy's Enemy (1989) In the novel Enemy's Enemy (1989) by author Jan Guillou, Carl Hamilton is assigned from his clients to go to Moscow and kill the spy Stig Bergling (in the book called Stig Sandström) who has escaped during his conjugal visit, killed his wife and went to Moscow to work for the Russians. The surname Sandström was taken from Sune Sandström, the then head of the Swedish Security Service (Säpo).

Personal life In 1967 he Sandström married Ella Hallberg (born 1937). He had big interest in harness racing and was a member of the Stockholm travsällskap ("Stockholm's Harness Racing Society") and was for some time its auditor.