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Dag Hammarskjold Plane Crash/Assassination Investigation - NYT (2 posts)

  1. truthmod
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    Funny how stuff like this is allowed into the NYT, but the idea that CIA killed JFK is totally beyond the pale. I guess that stuff only happens in third world countries. I had never heard about this suspected assassination before. It fits into JFK's battle with CIA and the assassination of Lumumba.

    Release the Records on Dag Hammarskjold’s Death
    http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/opinion/release-...

    LONDON — Last month, the outgoing secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, published a memo following up the inquiry he instigated last year into the death, nearly 55 years ago, of one of his predecessors in the role, the Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjold. Hammarskjold perished, along with his entourage, just after midnight on Sept. 18, 1961, when his chartered airliner crashed near Ndola, in what was then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia.

    More than half a century on, the cause of the crash remains unknown. Two recent commissions — the first of which I led, the second set up by the United Nations General Assembly in response to my commission’s findings — appear to have been stalled by a United States agency that may hold critical evidence pointing to the cause of the disaster.

    ...

    Although civilians using radio equipment heard signs of an aircraft in distress, none of the three inquiries could locate an audio record from the control tower at Ndola. The most instructive recollection was that of a United States naval pilot, Cmdr. Charles Southall, who was called to the N.S.A.’s listening station in Cyprus to hear what he remembered as the cockpit transmission of a fighter pilot firing at an airliner.

    There was also evidence that the N.S.A. was monitoring the airwaves in the Ndola region, almost certainly from one of two American aircraft parked on the tarmac. Our inquiry therefore asked the agency for any relevant records it held of local radio traffic before the crash. The agency replied that it had three records “responsive” to our request but that two of those were classified top secret and would not be disclosed.

    Posted 8 years ago #
  2. truthmod
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    More from Jim DiEugenio at CTKA:

    Hammarskjold and Kennedy vs. The Power Elite
    http://ctka.net/2016/jfk-hammarskjold/hammarskjold...


    Lumumba now turned to Hammarskjold for help. The Secretary General immediately passed UN Resolution 143. This demanded that the Belgians leave Congo and promised assistance to Lumumba until the nation was able to defend itself. Within 48 hours, there were 3,500 UN troops on the ground in Congo. Although he was now being accused of acting too late by the USSR, Hammarskjold proclaimed he would not recognize either Mobutu or Kasavubu as the leader of Congo. (Williams, p. 39) But when Lumumba was murdered, the Russians again criticized the Secretary General for doing too little, too late.

    Hammarskjold replied by passing resolution 161. There were now 15,000 UN troops in Congo, they were now allowed to use military force. The mission was to expel all foreign troops, and Parliament would be reconvened under UN protection. The Secretary General clearly saw Congo as a defining moment for both the UN and his leadership. (ibid, p. 41)

    The UN commander on the ground, Conor Cruise O'Brien, demanded Tshombe step down and Katanga rejoin Congo. To strengthen himself, Tshombe now recruited French veterans of the OAS, the terrorist group of army veterans who had split off from French president Charles DeGaulle over Algerian independence. Moise Tshombe December 22, 1961

    In the face of this, O'Brien launched two offensives into Katanga. The first was called Operation Rumpunch, and the second was named Operation Morthor. The first operation was quite successful, the second was not. About half of Elisabethville was still under Tshombe's control. (ibid, p. 49) By this time, the British premier of the African Federation—Roy Welensky— was clearly favoring Katanga, as was the Union of South Africa. Welensky, working with his colleague on African Affairs, Baron Cuthbert Alport, was also secretly supplying mercenaries from Rhodesia to Tshombe. (ibid, p. 51)

    As a result of this secret policy, Welensky now shifted troops into Ndola, the main airport for Rhodesia, which was just a few miles from the border with Congo. Welensky shipped in food, supplies and arms from as far away as Australia. (ibid, p. 53) Rhetorically, Welensky went as far as to compare the UN troops in Congo to the Nazis.

    This information is important. Since we are about to discuss the second high profile murder over the Congo Crisis: that of Dag Hammarskjold. Today I, and many others, call it a murder, not a suspicious death. The state of the evidence seems to me to clearly denote that this was a planned assassination. After considering some of the work of Susan Williams and others, the reader will likely agree.

    Posted 8 years ago #

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