Peter Stormare as Carl Hamilton

Carl Hamilton (code name Coq Rouge) is a fictional spy created by Jan Guillou and appearing in a number of Guillou's spy novels, as well as film and TV adaptations. Image File history File links Hamilton. ...   (born August 27, 1953) is a Swedish film actor. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Espionage is the practice of obtaining information about an organization or a society that is considered secret or confidential (spying) without the permission of the holder of the information. ... Jan Guillou at the Swedish Book- and Library Convention in Gothenburg, Sweden Jan Oscar Sverre Lucien Henri Bottolvsen Guillou (pron. ...

Hamilton's life

Carl Gustaf Gilbert Hamilton was born a Swedish noble. He rejected his family values and became involved in leftist activity. In the 1970s he was active in pro-Palestine movements and in a Swedish Maoist organisation called Clarté. He entered compulsory military service with intent to infiltrate the system, in order to strengthen it. While training to be an attack diver, he was given an offer. The state would pay for a double education for him in the United States: he would study computers openly and special operations secretly (in Navy SEAL training) for five years. He accepted, and so he became Sweden's newest weapon for (counter)intelligence. During his training, he got his code name he and his colleagues used in the field: Trident. When he lived in the US, he was involved with a local woman, but she eventually left him because he could not tell her what he was doing half of his time. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... Conscription is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority, e. ... SEALs in from the water. ... United States is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ...

After returning from United States as a lieutenant (Navy reserve), there was no place for him in the military intelligence bureau. He was loaned to the Swedish Security Police (SÄPO), where he investigated the murder of a SÄPO agent. The investigation resulted in Hamilton single-handedly stopping a mass murder in a foreign embassy, by killing the perpetrators. During this investigation, the director of SÄPO gave Hamilton another code name, Coq Rouge, the red rooster. He received a medal of valor from Sweden's king for his actions. Lieutenant is a military, paramilitary, fire service or police officer rank. ... SÄPO (Rikspolisstyrelsens säkerhetavdelning, RPS/SÄK, literally the National Police Boards Department of Security), is the Security Service of Sweden, belonging to the Swedish National Police Board. ...

His next assignment was to infiltrate a terrorist group in Germany that supposedly planned a strike in Sweden. He plays his role so well that when the bloody end comes, he was not far from fighting for the terrorists. Nevertheless, for his help, he received another medal, this time from West Germany.

He finally was transferred to where he belonged, to Sweden's military intelligence. His first job there was to escort a defecting Soviet Admiral from Cairo to Sweden. He did this, but in order to defeat his opposition's attempts to recapture the admiral, he had to kill plane hijackers, and hijack said plane himself. These actions drew quite a lot of attention in the press but his identity was kept from the public. Motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Russian: Workers of the world, unite!) Anthem(s): The Internationale (1922-1944) Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) Capital Moscow Largest city Moscow Official language(s) None; Russian de facto Government Federation of Soviet Republics  - Last President Mikhail Gorbachev  - Last Premier Ivan Silayev... Admiral is the rank, or part of the name of the ranks, of the highest naval officers. ... Cairos location in Egypt Coordinates: Governor Dr. Abdul Azim Wazir Area    - City 210 km²  - Metro 1,492 km² Population    - City (2005) 7,438,376  - Density 35,420/km²  - Urban 10,834,495  - Metro 15,200,000 Time zone EET (UTC+2) EEST (UTC+3) Cairo (Arabic: ‎ translit: , translated the...

Through the admiral Hamilton and his superiors found out that the Soviet Union had three secret underwater bases for special operations, set to target Sweden's highest political and military leaderships in case of a war. Hamilton and two junior members of his team, also graduates of dual Navy SEAL and civilian skills training, destroyed the installations, killing hundreds of Soviet special operations soldiers. He got another medal, this time in secret. SEALs in from the water. ...

In the middle of all this, Hamilton accidentally killed his current girlfriend. In the interest of national security, however, the investigation was removed from civilian police, and a court martial acquitted him. A court-martial (plural courts-martial) is a military court that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military law. ...

Hamilton met and married a police officer. They had a daughter.

Shortly after the destruction of the Soviet base, a phony defector fed Sweden false information that Hamilton was a double agent, working for Soviet Union. This allegation was investigated, and the information was eventually found to be false. However, an information leak blew Hamilton's cover, and the international press got a new hero: his past actions in SÄPO and during the plane hijacking incident became public knowledge. The Soviet base incident remained secret, though. Hamilton was brought before a parliamentary committee for questioning. "Do you have a license to kill?" was one of the questions. He answered that every member of the military was licensed and even required to use lethal force in certain situations.

Hamilton's college sweetheart returned after learning the truth about what Hamilton was, and he divorced to marry her. They had a son.

Hamilton led a mission to Italy to rescue Swedish businessmen from the Mafia. The effect of this was a vendetta against Hamilton. One by one, his ex-wife, wife and children were killed. He was alone and haunted. The Mafia is a secret society which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. ... A feud is a long-running argument or fight between parties—often groups of people, especially families or clans. ...

Hamilton had advanced to the rank of Vice Admiral. He became the director of SÄPO, where he was called the black Admiral by the personnel. Vice Admiral is a naval rank of three star level, equivalent to Lieutenant General in seniority. ...

During his leadership of SÄPO a number of immigrants were serial-murdered. An investigation discovered that the murderer was the black Admiral himself. At his trial, he did not defend himself - he even helped the prosecution. Finally, he informed the world that what he did had to be done to clean up SÄPO (which was known to be not very good at holding secrets, and the victims were connected to this). He said he would accept the punishment the law ordered for him.

After a few weeks in prison, he escaped and fled to America under a pseudonym, Hamlon.

Carl Hamilton is set to return as a character in Jan Guillou's next novel called Madame Terror Jan Guillou at the Swedish Book- and Library Convention in Gothenburg, Sweden Jan Oscar Sverre Lucien Henri Bottolvsen Guillou (pron. ...

Hamilton in the Swedish society

Carl Hamilton was created by author and journalist Jan Guillou after he had been sentenced to prison for espionage - for exposing an illegal spy organization inside the Swedish military (see the IB affair). His aim with the Coq Rouge books was to write what he knew about the world of counterintelligence, even though he was forbidden to tell. Jan Guillou at the Swedish Book- and Library Convention in Gothenburg, Sweden Jan Oscar Sverre Lucien Henri Bottolvsen Guillou (pron. ... Espionage is the practice of obtaining information about an organization or a society that is considered secret or confidential (spying) without the permission of the holder of the information. ... Informationsbyrån, IB (tr: Information Bureau) was a Swedish intelligence agency within the army. ...

See also: Hamilton (film) Peter Stormare as Carl Hamilton Hamilton is a Swedish action film from 1998 starring Peter Stormare, Mark Hamill and Lena Olin, directed by Harald Zwart. ...