Nils Ebbe Knut Carlsson (28 September 1947 – 3 August 1992) was a Swedish

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and

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with connections within the

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leadership and the Government of Sweden. He became infamous through the

Ebbe Carlsson affair The Ebbe Carlsson affair ( sv, Ebbe Carlsson-affären) was a major political scandal in Sweden occurring during mid-1988. The affair came to public knowledge on 1 June 1988, when the evening newspaper ''Expressen'' revealed that Ebbe Carlsson, a ...

, when it was revealed that Carlsson was carrying out an independent and illegal investigation into the

assassination of Olof Palme On 28 February 1986, at 23:21 CET (22:21 UTC), Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden, was fatally wounded by a single gunshot while walking home from a cinema with his wife Lisbeth Palme on the central Stockholm street Sveavägen. Lisbeth ...

. On 30 November 1991, Carlsson made public in an interview with Stina Dabrowski that he was

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positive and was suffering from AIDS, making him one of the first famous Swedish people to make this public. Carlsson received medical treatment at the AIDS clinic of

Karolinska University Hospital The Karolinska University Hospital ( sv, Karolinska universitetssjukhuset) is a teaching hospital affiliated with Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, with two major sites in the municipalities of Solna and Huddinge. The hospital network ...

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, Stockholm, during the last months of his life.

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