She was Minister of Justice from 1987 to 1988, and was forced to step down when the Ebbe Carlsson affair exploded.
Ebbe Carlsson had both knowledge and connections relating to SÄPO, and started up his own investigation, backed by the National Police Commissioner Nils Erik Åhmansson who provided Carlsson with a bodyguard and additional collaborators within SÄPO.
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The reason for this was supposedly that Palme had stopped the Iranians from acquiring the Swedish Air Defence Missile System RBS 70 and that the Swedish government had listed PKK as a terrorist organization.
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The affair came to public knowledge on 1 June 1988, when the evening newspaper Expressen revealed that Ebbe Carlsson, a journalist and publisher and former secretary at the Swedish Government, was carrying out an independent and illegal investigation into the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme, secretly supported by the minister for justice Anna-Greta Leijon.
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