Operation Leo was a plan to kidnap the Swedish Minister for Immigration Anna-Greta Leijon in 1976. The plan was devised by the second generation of the German Red Army Faction. The first generation of the group was also known as the Baader Meinhof Group, after two of its founding members.
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