Nils-Eric Ekblad

Nils-Eric Gustaf Ekblad (12 November 1904 – 25 August 1978)[1] was a Swedish diplomat.[2] He served in Chicago in 1929, was acting second secretary of legation in Riga, Tallinn and Kaunas 1931, attaché in Bern in 1934, and vice consul in Omaha in 1935.In 1939 he received the rank of captain and became head of the department at the Swedish National Board of Information (Statens Informationsstyrelse) .He became director in 1941, was counsellor and chargé d'affaires in Caracas from 1943 to 1948, in Addis Ababa from 1948 to 1950 before he was back and served at the Foreign Ministry from 1950 to 1952.[2] Under the pseudonym of 'Spectator', he and Gunnar Unger published the brochure Svenskarna och propagandan: har Gallup rätt?
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