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Utrikesdepartementet 1920 års dossiersystem, containing all Swedish diplomatic correspondence andinformation (everything from data regarding embassy personnel, their wages and reports totreaties, statistics and intelligence data, and collected newspaper clips) pertaining to internationaland foreign relations, but especially from all Swedish foreign representations around the globe.The first series cover mainly the period of 1902-1919, while the second series cover the periodbetween 1920 and 1970. In total they constitute over 15,000 volumes of information and data.In order to broaden the view of the decision making, the protocols of the Swedish Parliament,the Riksdag, was studied to find out about any documented debates in regard to the ongoingmassacres. Furthermore, the communiqués with the League of Nations and decisions made bythe League have also been consulted. Most of the information regarding the League has beenfound in the organisation’s publication, Official Journal, and in the Assembly Protocols.If any of the previous information (newspapers, missionary, and military reports) are regardedas important, the diplomatic reports by the Swedish Ambassador must be regarded as the mostreliable information, at least from the Swedish Government’s point of view. The SwedishEmbassy both functioned as the provider of information and analysed the gathered information.It was these reports that provided the data bed, requested instructions upon observations, andrecommended certain actions in regard to the Swedish foreign policy. Thus, the contents of thereports dispatched by the Swedish Embassy are a reliable source for how official Stockholmperceived the Armenian massacres, what measures the Ambassador was instructed to take or herecommended Stockholm to do.It is worth mentioning that, unlike Wirsén, there are no indications whether or not theSwedish Ambassador during the period between 1915 and 1920, Cosswa Anckarsvärd, did travelaround in the Ottoman Empire, acquiring the information he dispatched to Sweden. In somereport it is mentioned that the source of his information are published news in the country,letters or intelligence information from his German counterpart or other diplomatic missions inand outside Turkey. This will be indicated where the sources are mentioned explicitly.Notwithstanding, an Ambassador such as Anckarsvärd must have had a broad contact net,including Turkish officials, opposition members, foreign diplomats and representatives, minorityrepresentatives etc. who supplied him with a range of information about the situation in theEmpire, thus providing him with a satisfactory amount of data to base his analysis upon.All documents mentioning the situation of the Armenian population, its treatment during themassacres and deportations, and later in regard to the post-war discussions about the creation ofan Armenian state have been considered. Reports regarding other Christian people in OttomanTurkey and similar treatment as that towards the Armenians have been included to depict theongoing Turkish state policy towards minorities. As it will be shown later, both kinds ofdocuments, confirming as well as denying the Armenian massacres, have been included in thestudy and will display how and when the break point in the nature of the reporting begins, underwhat pretext the denial is implemented and its real agenda.32