I'm assuming that he was pointing out that Sweden is not a NATO member, unlike Norway, and as such would not have access to the same amount of intel information from NATO countries, including the US.
That's is of course a well known fact that Sweden and Finland is not Nato members, but they are "silent allies", slowly converting that to active members. I think that many times on this forum, people underestimates other peoples knowledge.
Few countries know so much about russia as Sweden and Finland, this because of historical reasons. The relation between Sweden and russia is very long, russia is in fact named after a province in Sweden, Roslagen, i.e "Ros" lagen. 1700, Swedish troops defetated a numerical russian superior force at Narva. 1709 a Swedish army was defeated at Poltava - this marks the start for russia as a great power. This will be celebrated all over russia next year... 1790, half on russias baltic fleet was sunk at the battle if Svensksund etc etc.
Most Nato countries have only war experiences with russia/soviet during the last decade. Swedens and Finlands experience with russia during the last 1000 year is mostly about war. On the other hand, Swedish experience of China or Japan is more limited - the flow of information goes between the ones that have something to tell and the one´s that are interested in the information - in most cases, the information is shared between friends/allies and the messenger of course has a reason to inform the reciever of the information.
Sweden have a great interest in russia, militarily, political, social, environmental and economical - we of course also have in interest in China, it´s a great trading partner, but the scope is more limited here. I doubt that Australia knows as much about russia as Sweden, on the other hand, Australia knows a great deal more about Indonesia, China, Japan, India than Sweden.
Technological secrets are mostly shared on a higher teghnological detail level, due to commercial interests - that's why much of the high tech the US sells to it´s allies is in "black boxes". Sweden have that as a differentiator here, technology transfer is almost always a part of the deal when Saab sells fighter aircraft.
) purchases, and therefore has a different FMS profile for a lack of a better descriptor. Please note the very top where it shows the date. This is from January of 2007 and as such (along with the Arms Export Control Act which replaced the old FMS process circa 2005 IIRC) would supersede the article linked to on FAS.
