Håkan Isacson was a Swedish

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 intelligence agent who became known as the whistleblower

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 of the IB affair, a political scandal

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 in Sweden in the 1970s. Isacson was a former employee at IB, a secret Swedish domestic intelligence organization, who was used as the source by journalists Peter Bratt

Peter Bratt

Peter Bratt is a Swedish journalist. For many years he worked for the national Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter until he stopped there in 2003. Through he career he has written many critical texts on the Swedish Social Democratic Party....

 and Jan Guillou

Jan Guillou

Jan Oskar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou is a Swedish author and journalist. Among his books are a series of spy fiction novels about a spy named Carl Hamilton, and a trilogy of historical fiction novels about a Knight Templar, Arn Magnusson...

 when they made the existence of the organization public in May 1973. On 4 January 1974 Isacson, along with Bratt and Guillou, was convicted of espionage

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 by the Stockholm District Court and sentenced to 12 months in prison.

Isacson was a closeted

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 homosexual

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