11 Facts About Cats Falck

Maureen Cathryn Harriet "Cats" Falck was a Swedish television journalist who, together with her friend Lena Grans, disappeared in Stockholm in 1984 while she was investigating a scandal involving the smuggling of weapons from Sweden to communist states in Eastern Europe.

At the time of her disappearance, Cats Falck was employed as a reporter for the Swedish public service television news program Rapport.

Cats Falck claimed that when the story broke, she would get Stora Journalistpriset, "The Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism".

Cats Falck immediately went to Cafe Opera and waited all night, but Falck and Grans never arrived.

The autopsy revealed that Grans had a broken nose but Cats Falck had no broken bones or head injuries.

In 1997, new information that Cats Falck was murdered because she had come across information about illegal arms deals led to the police re-opening the case.

At the time of her disappearance, Cats Falck, who was employed as a reporter for the Swedish public service television news programme Rapport, was investigating a major scandal comprising the Swedish company ASEA and smuggling of weapons to communist states in Eastern Europe.

Andersson has personally investigated the ASEA story and he has found no indications that Cats Falck had any unique sources, or any information beyond what had already been publicised in other news.

The alleged motive behind the assassination was that Cats Falck had received sensitive information about a secret weapons affair between the Swedish weapons manufacturer Bofors and East Germany.

The letter claimed that it was Cats Falck who had informed Algernon about weapons affair.

An investigation made by reporter Christoph Andersson on behalf of Sveriges Radio, the Swedish public service radio broadcasting service, found that Cats Falck had been investigating the export of isostatic presses, which can be used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons, to Eastern Germany and the Stasi-controlled enterprise AHB Elektronik Import Export.