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Operation LeoOperation Leo was a plan to kidnap the Swedish minister for the interior Anna-Greta Leijon in 1976. The plan was devised by the newly formed terrorist group KSH (Kommando Siegfried Hausner) and named so because of the minister's surname. The group intended to put the minister in a box so as to prevent her from hearing or seeing anything and moving her to another location. The plan was large and complicated and included bank robberies and weapons procurement. However, unbeknownst to the KSH, the Swedish Security Service SPO had them under close surveillance. Before the plan could be put into action the police arrested the entire group in an operation codeworded Ebba Grn. During the investigation that followed, some 90 people were arrested. Many received long prison terms, and the leader of the group, Norbert Krcher, was deported to Germany and put in prison. He was released in 1992. The plan and the forming of KSH was a direct consequence of the Occupation of the West German embassy in Stockholm, Sweden in 1975. The Swedish punk band Ebba Grn, formed in 1977, named themselves after the codeword used by the police.
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