Claim: Ebbe Carlsson affair was when Lidbom consulted Ebbe Carlsson who started up the investigation and concluded that Nils Erik Åhmansson had not been assassinated by PKK
Evidence: In late 1987, prime minister Ingvar Carlsson summoned Carl Lidbom, the Swedish ambassador to France, to Stockholm. He wanted Lidbom to lead an investigation into the procedures of SÄPO, the Swedish security police. This was prompted by the escape of convicted spy Stig Bergling as well as the failure to find the assassin of former prime minister Olof Palme. Lidbom consulted his old acquaintance Ebbe Carlsson. 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.