The project is about the Swedish intelligence service studied from a political-cultural perspective. More specifically, the project focuses on a dispute between two intelligence officers in the early post-war period, Thede Palm and Jan Rydström, studied as a dispute about the internal norm system of the organization. The purpose is basically philosophical, and is based on the paradoxical fact that liberal democracy accepts its opponents. Thus the system has its allure but also its potential downfall. In order to protect themselves from destruction, the representatives of the democratic system are therefore sometimes forced to resort to non-democratic methods. In doing so, they run the risk of becoming like their opponent. What can be allowed in the name of prevention is therefore subject to individual opinions and attitudes and is in a gray area. Intelligence organizations have a constitutional protection goal, but achieving this goal sometimes requires unconstitutional, or at least dubious, means. The intelligence service thus has to deal with the grey area mentioned above, and different actors' perceptions of where the boundaries of this grey area lie reflect the culture that prevails within the organization. Which normative system should prevail? What can be allowed in the name of constitutional protection, and what cannot be allowed? Where is the limit? These are questions that a close study of the relationship between Palm and Rydström can shed light on.